• Ask someone you trust to name the qualities they appreciate in you.

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

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

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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Golden Buddha

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 the mud…
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Saying Yes to Life

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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Value Compass

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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Gentle with self

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 into the old pattern once the self-hate-motivation…
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Like a bee drawn to a flower’s nectar,

Understanding Archetypes

Archetypes can be mysterious. Here’s a 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 patterns 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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Oregon Somatic Therapy

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…
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Oregon Somatic Therapy

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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