Rebecca R. Velasquez, Holistic Psychotherapist

Covid time is the perfect time for making homemade holiday gifts! Wishing you all a healthy and safe holiday season!!

To all parents surviving the Covid time, I acknowledge your unique challenges...The pull between work and your children...for everything you do each day to put aside your inner turmoils to show up for your children...for your bravery in learning how to homeschool your children with no prior experience...for needing to train your young ones to wear a mask...for every challenge seen and unseen...for trying to meet basic needs during a global crisis...for often putting your own needs last...for constantly coming up with creative ways to entertain and enrich your (needy) children’s life for months when the world has been shut down. I see you. I feel you. You are a hero. When this is all over, we all deserve to be wheeled via stretcher to a luxurious spa retreat for at least 90 days! (Photo circa 2010)

Best yoga days ever! One thing I’ve been so grateful for during the quarantine has been social distance yoga-ing at the park with a friend. We are often pushed off our mat by my kids or at the very least balancing them on our head somehow! I’ve never realized how much I enjoy practicing outside!

#blacklivesmatter

So I had this impactful dream recently (as I just mentioned my previous posting) that I was frolicking with a couple of beautiful white stallions in a crystal blue ocean. It was a crystal clear dream- not hazy like other dreams. All my senses were alive in the dream- images were glistening. I was on this magical island with other magical creatures and I decided to adopt the white stallions and I boarded them onto Santa’s sleigh (yes really!! ) and we flew back to civilizatio...n. I woke up feeling renewed and peaceful and clear-headed. I googled and pondered the significance of white stallions: beauty, purity, freedom, spiritual awakening, strong, wild, harmony and abundance. I remembered that just the night before I had written down 5 words that I had intended for myself, my home and my life in this next chapter to include: harmony, joy, beauty, workability and abundance. Ironically I remember that my maiden name Roessler actually means someone who breeds, cares for, works for or owns horses. I think I found my spirit animal! A white stallion is everything I truly want to become! So I purchased an art canvas of a beautiful white stallion to remind me daily of the best version of myself that I’m becoming more and more each day! What’s your spirit animal?!! See more