Avalon Rising Woman-Centered Counseling & Hypnotherapy

08/01/2022

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/covid-s-mental-health-toll-makes-therapists-hard-find-insurance-ncna1286502?utm_medium=email&utm_source=rasa_io

Therapists face disincentives in accepting insurance, which ultimately pits providers against prospective patients.

05/26/2021

Sadness is not something you need to shift, cure, or transform.

At times the blue one will appear, the melancholy figure of the soul, not to be healed or subjected to some process of transcendence, but held and given space to reveal.

It comes with an offering and benediction that is unique to its place in the spectrum, the blue-place, which carries a unique fragrance and essence, a frequency of the wounded healer.

Sadness need not be operated upon so that it will yield or transform into something else, for it is complete and pure on its own.

There may be an important communication in the core of the sorrow – a special blessing not able to be transmitted in moments of peace and joy. A reminder of something lost, a region of your heart that misses and longs for you, a dispatch from the beloved that can only be decoded in the slow silence of aloneness.

Yes, it can burn there and can take us to dust. But the particles of that dust are made of the scintilla of light.

When turned toward and entered into, sadness reveals a blue-portal through which we can more deeply connect with ourselves, with others, and with nature… and with a world that has forgotten something holy about the wisdom of a broken heart.

Photo by Pezibear

05/18/2021

💖🌹💖

There will be a day
when all of these broken pieces
will gracefully come together
and you will walk away from all of this,
a storyteller.

~ Morgan Harper Nichols

art | Marta Orlowska

10/09/2020

Superb read on anger and forgiveness: https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/15/david-whyte-consolations-anger-forgiveness-maturity/

10/08/2020

“Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.” ~Victor Hugo

09/22/2020

When you realize no one else on this earth can be like you... that no other soul may know the beauty, sorrow, light and darkness you alone are given to see... then you will, at last, be the fearless individual your Heart of hearts has called you to be.
~Guy Finley
Art © Joan Dumouchel

09/21/2020

When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul!

Harold Kushner.... ♥

09/19/2020

Please...

Good Morning.

09/19/2020

Three potential roles, and how you can get out.

09/17/2020

Matt Licata

DISAPPOINTING ANOTHER

In any close relationship, we will inevitably disappoint the other and let them down.

This can be incredibly activating, especially if our role in early relationships was to set aside our own needs, where tending to the other was the primary way that we received love and attention.

In a field of narcissistic organization, we are not seen as a subject in our own right, but as an object in the perceptual field of another. Our sense of worth is derived by how well we are able to regulate and care for the emotional needs of that other. Especially at a young age, this is a very tenuous situation to be placed in.

For many, we will do just about anything to not disappoint, for to do so opens the doorway to seemingly unbearable feelings, images, and impulses. The invitation, as always, is to slow way down and bring curiosity, awareness, and kindness to our experience in these moments as we begin to encode new circuitry.

What is it like for you to disappoint someone? To let them down? To fail at living up to their expectations, no matter how hard you try?

What are the core beliefs that arise during these times, the feelings that you will do just about anything to get out of, the habitual behaviors you engage to avoid a direct confrontation with your own embodied vulnerability?

What do you imagine the consequences will be if you are not able to “make them happy,” or remove their anxiety, emptiness, self-hatred, and the pain of their unlived life?

Will you be abandoned if you disappoint them? Or will you be the target of rage and attack? Will you be shamed? Unsafe? Should you just go ahead and try to make them feel better at all costs, even if detrimental to your own integrity?

To what degree have you come to organize your life around the unconscious belief that your role is to urgently heal, fix, and cure the other when they are upset?

And for those of us who identify with being healers, therapists, or counselors of any kind, what does it mean about us if we are not healing, but disappointing?

It’s some very rich territory that we can investigate, as alchemists and archeologists of soul… a whole fountain of sacred data we can mine in this experiment. It is an act of mercy and compassion, for both ourselves and others, to take some time and explore this.

09/17/2020

“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
Brian Jacques

Felice Casorati

09/17/2020

If you’re like most people, you’re never sure what to do or say when faced with someone’s pain. That’s why our resident illustrator, Brittany Bilyeu, made you this handy “care and feeding” guide. It's useful for helping people in so many situations.

https://www.refugeingrief.com/2018/09/09/help-a-friend-comic/

Isn’t it wonderful? You can find more of Brittany’s work at her shop, Culture Flock (https://cultureflock.com/). Be sure to spread this comic around, friends. Helping people get better at giving support is going to take a team effort.

09/13/2020

As a body positive therapist and woman on her own ever-evolving, ever-expanding self-love journey, I could not be more grateful for what the Body Positive Movement stands for and hope to play my own small role within it.

In honor of body positivity, I wanted to share 6 of my favorite body positive quotes with you to support you in your own journey to body acceptance and self-love.

09/11/2020

The process of individuation, or psychological development, leads progressively further away from the ego to the Self, from the unconscious to consciousness, from the personal to the transpersonal, the holy, the realization that the macrocosm is being mirrored in the microcosm of the human psyche.

Radmila Moacanin

09/08/2020

“Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”
Shannon L. Alder

Catrin Welz Stein

09/07/2020

“We have a tendency to think in terms of doing and not in terms of being. We think that when we are not doing anything, we are wasting our time. But that is not true. Our time is first of all for us to be. To be what? To be alive, to be peaceful, to be joyful, to be loving. And that is what the world needs most.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

Abram Arkhipov - Visit.

09/07/2020