by adminwomen | Dec 7, 2017 | IFS (Internal Family Systems Work), Uncategorized
How does “The Midlife Voyage to Transformation” look in IFS terms? What happens inside your internal system as you move through the 5 stages of the Midlife Transition Voyage? Stage 1: “ Lost at Sea” is often characterized by a somatic uneasiness or sense of overwhelm...
by adminwomen | Nov 22, 2017 | Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Uncategorized, Working with Grief
When my son was in a Waldorf Preschool, the school had a Lantern Walk & Festival in the second week of November. I remember that I learned a lot that night about allowing and exploring the darkness —just by being silent, singing together, and being in the...
by adminwomen | Sep 17, 2017 | Divorce, Resilience
There are many ways to learn how to be RESILIENT. The hard way—going through something really difficult and coming out on the other side intact—is one path many people take to learn how to be more resilient. Usually this takes getting support when you are struggling...
by adminwomen | Sep 10, 2017 | Fear, Uncategorized
Anytime we are attempting to jump into something big in our lives, or find that we are facing a big challenge or change, Fear often appears. It grabs us up and sometimes we get so stuck in this place of freeze that we don’t know how to move out of it. This is because...
by adminwomen | Aug 15, 2017 | Divorce, Empowerment, Midlife Transitions, Resilience, Women empowering women
Mt. Kilimanjaro is a stunning sight in Tanzania. Climbing this peak for me was about empowering myself along with 4 other Tanzanian women to get to the top. Women empowering women!! Empowerment is about learning to face your fears. I’m learning through my own life...
by adminwomen | Jun 1, 2017 | Resilience
Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D.in her books The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works & The Upside of Stress describes the Neuroscience of Change as “two different selves inside of us playing it out in the brain.” What she means is that we have the opportunity to...
by adminwomen | Apr 24, 2017 | Fear
When I met Sally, age 60, she was trying to decide if she needed to retire or if she should continue working for another few years. But she was feeling so much fear about this decision, and about the idea of having to figure it all out that she was making herself...
by adminwomen | Apr 11, 2017 | Fear
Have you noticed how much our thoughts take over when we feel something scary? Our brains respond to a stimulus with a fight/flight response, but then our thinking mind begins to carry us deeper and deeper into reactions that don’t always serve us. Fear takes over...
by adminwomen | Mar 22, 2017 | Self-Critic
I have the most aggressive self-critic I know…. She takes every opportunity to tell me I’m not doing enough and not doing it right. And she’s relentless….. at least she used to. Until I learned some tools about how to work with her internally and how to talk...
by adminwomen | Nov 30, 2016 | Self-Compassion
Have you ever noticed how your heart feels when you open up to the feelings of gratitude? When we meet our brain’s negative bias with the gratitude of the heart, we change everything. We feel abundance and joy and grace and if we stay with this feeling of gratitude...
