Integrative Wellness Modesto Region

Keeping It Together while Staying Apart Free, powerful relaxation and guided imagery lessons that reduce stress, calm emotions, improve attitudes and boost confidence in your body's healing abilities.

Do you know the work of Dr. Marty Rossman? Maybe you've see him on PBS? He's gifted and sharing his gifts freely at the link below. Free audio and video resources to help with your stress and self-care by one of the best.

Keeping It Together while Staying Apart Free, powerful relaxation and guided imagery lessons that reduce stress, calm emotions, improve attitudes and boost confidence in your body's healing abilities.

"Because uncontained fear is how we give away our power. And it doesn’t mean that feeling fear is wrong or a sign of weakness. It means that there is a way to feel it, contain it, hold it, and allow it to transform under the guidance of a bigger self that says, ‘everything is okay. No matter what. Because I am bigger than my earthly identity. And it’s only when I forget that and lose sight that suffering feels inescapable.’

I thought I was spared the horrid "motivational" phrase going around now "If you don't come out of this with a new skill, you never lacked time, you lacked disc...ipline" until I saw it on my local yoga studio page. As a trauma psychologist, I am utterly utterly horrified, enraged, and bewildered about how people can believe and spread this phrase in good conscience. We are going through a collective trauma, that is bringing up profound grief, loss, panic over livelihoods, panic over loss of lives of loved ones. People's nervous systems are barely coping with the sense of threat and vigilance for safety, or alternating with feeling numb and frozen and shutting down in response to it all. People are trying to survive poverty, fear, retriggering of trauma, retriggering of other mental health difficulties. Yet, someone has the nerve to accuse someone of lack of discipline for not learning a new skill, and by a yoga teacher! This cultural obsession with [capitalistic] "productivity" and always spending time in a "productive" "fruitful" way is absolutely maddening. What we need is more self compassion, more gentle acceptance of all the difficult emotions coming up for us now, more focus on gentle ways to soothe ourselves and our pain and the pain of loved ones around us, not a whipping by some random fucker making us feel worse about ourselves in the name of "motivation".

Do you know the work of Dr. Marty Rossman? Maybe you've see him on PBS? He's gifted and sharing his gifts freely at the link below. Free audio and video resources to help with your stress and self-care by one of the best.

Ultimately, the problems we face cannot be solved at the same level at which they were created. The current problems of the world are bigger and more complex t...han the institutions established to deal with them. Meaningful change requires a true transformation that shifts the levels of understanding and opens the realms of possibility. Yet, there is a poverty of imagination when it comes to facing the size and depth of the problems we all face. In mistaking appearances for the real thing, people wind up with the appearance of strength, the appearance of leadership and the appearance of meaning while suffering a loss of all that is truly meaningful in the end. Genuine change, whether it be in the hearts of people or in the culture at large, is more difficult than changing the appearance of things and therefore can be a more rare occurrence. In hard times, inner changes must precede changes to outer circumstances. - Michael Meade, Awakening the Soul

Balanced. Brilliant. Effective.

Gain consciousness of our shared humanity.

It's a brave new world! FINALLY these things I've been doing for 20 years with my clients are getting validated, mainstreamed and more widely available! Hallelujah!

Feel your goodness.

..we established a conversation ‘between his higher self and his colon’, and his colon told him that the reason it was holding its movement was because he was feeling stuck at work. He had a long term dispute with his business partner that wasn’t being resolved.

Explore your inner landscapes.