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Healing Trauma: Wild Animals Know the Secret

Your Body’s Natural Organic Wisdom Scientists have made a fascinating discovery about the way animals in the wild let go of fear and stress. Because they are able to release it and move on, they are free of PTSD like symptoms. Without this ability in the wild, they would wander around shut down, uptight or confused . . . and…
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How to Support Your Wellbeing in the Face of Negative News Cycles

Are the news reports and headlines getting you down? Are you reading Facebook posts and feeling angry or discouraged? Perhaps you feel like  unplugging completely from the current events? When alarming headlines are only a notification away, it’s easy to feel like the world is falling apart in front of you. Getting deeply invested in negative news can tax your…
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Is It Really Procrastination

Is It Really Procrastination?

“I was going to put this newsletter out last week . . .” Do you know the feeling? Maybe you find yourself getting behind. You tell yourself you’re going to tackle those projects, but you flip on the TV and next thing you know hours have passed. You get mad at yourself and vow to start again tomorrow. Creative ideas…
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Is It Stress or Trauma? Learn the difference and outsmart anxiety

Perhaps you have experienced some of these situations You have a medical or dental procedure and you try to calm yourself but you notice fear getting the best of you. Afterward you feel numb, spacy and disconnected from yourself. You work in an office where no matter how hard you work, it will never be enough, and you have to…
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Anxiety Relief Tips: Tips to Outsmart Anxiety

Learn how to manage and prevent your anxiety. Breathe If you’re anxious, you ARE holding onto your breath. But if you have pet you have a great breath teacher. Watch them breath. Notice how deeply your pet takes in a breath, down in their belly, nearly down to the base of their legs. Just watch and feel you own body…
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Childhood Anxiety and its Cost to Your Child’s Learning and Development

“When kids start skipping things it might look to their teachers and peers like they are uninterested or underachieving, but the opposite might be true.” – Rachel Ehmke Children count on adults to help them understand the spectrum of intense emotions they experience throughout their childhood and adolescence. They rely on their parents’ wisdom and emotional skills to assist them…
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Your 7 Intuitive Intelligences

Everyone has intuition.  But what most people don’t know is that they have 7 different types of “intuitive Intelligence.”   These come as part of the software of the Soul.  They are sometimes known as the chakras. And the animal that is our body makes use of these intelligences without our even knowing it. Using SoulCollage® with your Animal Guides can…
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Dancing with Your Inner Critic : Question Your Thoughts

Inner CriticYou know that grating critical voice inside that points out all your mistakes. Calls you stupid? It’s the first to tell you that ” you’ll never succeed.” It sounds like someone you’d like to get rid of, right? It turns out that the Inner Critic’s “perspective” arises from our nervous system simply trying to protect us. Only it’s not…
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Anger, Thunder, and Healing: Making Friends with Anger

We’ve had some early fall thunder storms recently. It reminds me of how anger feels. There can be a brilliant flash, booming that shakes the rafters, and then calm. That’s similar to how natural anger flashes in a balanced nervous system when we need a burst of energy to act immediately. But fight/flight reactions are also roused from energies stored…
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Don’t Believe Everything You Think! Question Your Thoughts

Thought Spotting “My brain is deeply flawed. And no offense, but so is yours.” I loved this quote from the Guinea Pig Diaries by AJ Jacobs, so much that it inspired this article. I spend a bit of time watching my brain at work these days. I used to believe what my brain told me. But I’ve come to notice…
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Feeling Overwhelmed? Tense?

Take a few rocks out of your backpack. Here are some steps you can use to get back in the flow, and let overwhelm and tension find their way out of your body. You can do this in just a few minutes, even at a stop light! Just keep your eyes open! Connecting with the Here and Now – Orientation…
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Grief and Loss: How to Move Through Grief and Heal

Is It Depression or Could It Really be Grief? What is Grief? Grief happens when we experience the death of a loved one or pet. And grief also takes up residence in our bodies when we experience any type of loss. Grief can even visit when good things happen that change our lives. When we experience a change and we…
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The Authentic Self and Your Inner Wisdom

Your Authentic Self Perhaps you sense a Core You who feels safe and at peace, who is without pain or fear, who never feels anxiety or depression. These aspects of yourself often get buried as we grow up, but they never disappear. As we uncover our innate Essence qualities, we automatically begin to tap into our aliveness, creativity and intuition.…
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Intuitive Eating: Making Peace with Food

A Sustainable Enjoyable Way to Eat. Diets don’t work. Hating your body doesn’t work. Most people don’t realize that prolonged “dieting” can contribute to a higher ratio of fat to muscle in your body. But what is the alternative to dieting? Simply letting the old pattern rule? No! There is a peaceful way to work in harmony with your body…
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The Concert Called Life: Integrating the Facets of Self

Being Your Authentic Self, Naturally Imagine going to a concert hall. A single singer walks on stage and entertains for the entire evening. Compare that with a dazzling stage set. The orchestra tunes up in a chorus of cacophony. Then the singers enter, one by one. Voice added to voice. The music swells to the corners of the hall lifting…
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The Golden Buddha: Look below the surface to find your true identity

In 1957, to make room for the Port of Bangkok, a small temple and its brown clay Buddha were being relocated. Being made of stucco it was thought to be worth very little. As the crane hoisted the 16 foot statue, to the horror of the monks watching, the straps did not hold and the rain soaked statue slipped into…
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Life as Improv

Saying “Yes!” to Life. One of my favorite TV shows is “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” Four comedians take cues from the audience and an irreverent moderator and make just about anything funny. Their slogan is “where anything can happen and usually does.” Sound a lot like life? We could learn a lot from Improv, as we face the daily…
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Want to Reduce Holiday Stress?

We’d all like to have the perfect holiday, just like those on TV. All we’d need is a production staff of 30 – 40 people behind the scenes. If you’ve laid off your staff, maybe you’d like to consider a less stressful holiday season this year. Or maybe you LIKE the rush you get from climbing Mt. Stress. If you…
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The Secret Science of Change: Be Gentle With Yourself

Most people have an Inner Critic that tries to brow beat or guilt them into change. You may hear that little voice saying “You should . . . “or “You shouldn’t . . . .” I call this shoulding on yourself. It’s not very much fun. If you feel bad enough, you may make temporary changes, but then fall back…
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Understanding Archetypes

Archetypes can be mysterious. Here’s an brief excerpt from my talk at the 2nd Annual SoulCollage Facilitators Conference in Monterrey California. “Carl Jung believed that our minds come coded with patterns, like magnets attracting iron filings. These archetypal pattern shape us. They and direct us to perceive the world in a particular way. He called these predispositions archetypes. They have…
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Journey to the Source

Journey to the Source: Solstice Meditation by Suzie Wolfer LCSW with thanks to Lee Greer! Materials:  paper and pen Preparation for the Journey Close eyes, tune into your breath, body sensations, sounds in the room, feeling of chair and floor against body. Be here now. Let your breath flow deep into your belly.Breathe into the count of 7 and exhale…
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Mindfulness & SoulCollage®

I hear the word “mindfulness” a lot more than I did 25 years ago when I first started practicing meditation. Last week, a client asked me, “How would you define mindfulness?”    And it got me thinking. I experience mindfulness as an alert, sustained, flexible focus of attention on “what is.” Using our SoulCollage cards in a mindful way, working with…
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Neuroscience and SoulCollage®

SoulCollage® may improve your physical well being. First, the aesthetic quality of the work produced can lift your mood, boost self-awareness, and improve self-esteem. Second, research shows that physiological functions, such as heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration, slow when people are deeply involved in an activity they enjoy. In addition, making art also provides an opportunity for you to…
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The Soul Whisperer

Cesar Millan, The Dog Whisperer, demonstrates how a high level of awareness and understanding of the mind and natural instincts of the canine species, enables him to enlist their cooperation and help them heal. Through his own example, he shows humans and canines how to connect in a rich and rewarding partnership. In SoulCollage, we connect-up with both our troublesome…
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