by adminwomen | Apr 18, 2023 | Fierce Compassion, Grief, Phase III — Diving Into The Deep
As we journey through life, we inevitably encounter pain and grief. These experiences, when addressed with an attitude of fear and aversion, can harden our hearts and make it difficult to move forward. Because grief feels so big and scary, and because our culture...
by adminwomen | Sep 4, 2022 | Embodiment, Fierce Compassion, Grief, Internal Family Systems Work (IFS), Phase III — Diving Into The Deep
THE HEROINE’S JOURNEY IS OUR GRIEF JOURNEY In l990, Maureen Murdock published a book called The Heroine’ s Journey. A woman’s quest for wholeness in our contemporary world, she says, is about defining woman’s experience of becoming and not how it has been...
by adminwomen | Jul 25, 2022 | Phase III — Diving Into The Deep
Why are Self-Compassion and Self-Love essential to our Deep Diving through Grief? I am writing this post because of my personal experience with my own grief over the past year and how writing my memoir triggered so much grief that I had thought I had processed, and I...
by adminwomen | Jun 3, 2022 | Embodiment, Phase III — Diving Into The Deep
Growing up a female in a masculine powered world of the 60’s, I can tell you it has taken me a long while to find the ways of being alive and present in my life that really work for me. At 69, I can say it has taken experimentation with many mind/body tools to really...
by adminwomen | Apr 2, 2022 | Embodiment, Phase III — Diving Into The Deep
What is Embodiment? Why do we want to be more embodied? It is learning to listen to our bodies and what they can show us about our human emotions, our feelings, our sensations that is different from what our minds are telling us we are about. It is not neat and...
by adminwomen | Nov 8, 2021 | Phase III — Diving Into The Deep
Jon Kabat-Zinn tells the story in the introduction to his powerful book Coming to our Senses- Healing Ourselves and the World through Mindfulness. (2005) of a retreat leader asking him as he entered the retreat, “How is the world treating you?” Then the retreat...
