Shadow lives not only in the monsters we create, but the people we become.

When I was little, I cried for Darth Vader. I wanted to rescue him – seeing not a monster, but a man who was utterly alone with no one to love him or understand him.

Some days it may feel like you are living in a world on fire. You see it everyday, protests in the streets, the impact of quarantine at home, the pandemic around the world, civil unrest, conflicting information. You feel a call to show up, to help the world become a better place, to see the people you love thrive and no longer live in pain, hurt and fear. You believe in equality, justice, unconditional love and rights for all.

With everything we are experiencing as a society, you feel a call to action. You feel that you cannot just sit back and be silent. You cannot be just a witness. You feel a need, a desire, a calling to create change. And yet, consciously being mindful of COVID and not wanting to be a carrier, and feeling responsible for infecting people or making the pandemic worse. You feel the tension, an inner conflict between what you want to do and being able to do it. You are aware of your limitations whether that is due to illness, disability or mental health. This feels like an excuse, an obstacle you are unwilling to accept.

In 2020, your foundation was cracked, shaken and perhaps even destroyed Your daily routines, annihilated. Your structure, gone. All the things you counted on to be reliable and stable shifted. Your empathic heart felt like it was put in a blender on pulverize. You are still feeling the effects and a desire to feel grounded. A need to catch your breath. Longing for a moment of peace.

You see everything. You know the pain. Your heart bleeds for those who suffer, who hurt, who remain unheard and unseen. You feel a call to step up, to champion change. To create a better world, a world of equality, balance, and love.

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I create a sequence of yoga poses to help your body relax and you to enter your dream world.

Death is personal. Change is personal. Grief their companion. When we make room for death, change and grief, we invite our own healing, growth, and transformation.

Many HSP (highly sensitive person), empaths and starseeds experience anxiety and depression. This can be heightened during stressful times, like natural disasters and currently the covid 19 pandemic. HSP, empaths and starseeds experience pain from others’ pain and trauma. Often times not knowing what is theirs or someone else’s. This feeds the anxiety and depression. They often feel burdened, heavy, and hopeless. It doesn’t have to be that way.

Covid 19 is disrupting our norm, causing panic, creating change and bringing awareness. For many, dealing with covid 19 is like grieving. We move through Kubler Ross's 5 stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Furthermore, Covid 19 has also spurred a fear response, as we rush to the stores to stockpile supplies in the face of our own mortality. Whether you are navigating covid with a grief response, fear response or from an emotional place there are things you can tend to your emotions and live from a place of calm.

Emotional hangovers happen after we process, expel, release, and feel intense, usually overpowering emotions.

Emotional hangovers can happen when we are stressed, anxious, depressed, burnt out, suffering from compassion fatigue, overwhelmed, grieving, feeling trapped and stuck in life.

Self-care has become just another thing to check off our to-do lists. Because we have lost the soul in self-care. We have forgotten the purpose of why we participate in acts of self-love. We are learning to love ourselves. If we are not at our best, we cannot do our best work, support those we love or thrive. We sell ourselves and the world short when we neglect to tend to ourselves. 

We fear those emotions that we do not like to feel. As if by feeling them they will consume, swallow and change us.

It’s the dark that we fear. The being caught in quicksand with no life rope. That if we allow these feelings, depression, sadness, grief, pain, hurt in they will never leave.

He reminds us we can only take too much before we break. Before our fears swallow us and we succumb. 

I love bringing astrology into therapy. It creates perspective, context and food for thought. Astrology can affirm who we are and illuminate areas for growth, including our shadow. As well as, astrology can let us know what tools we innately have at our disposal, areas of our life that will flow with ease and grace and others that will be more difficult to navigate. Astrology can provide ritual and rhythm into our mundane daily lives. It can bring focus to areas we need to tend to, honor and celebrate. 

Empaths are people who are in sync with the energy around them.  They can feel the energy and emotions of others, animals, plants, and even the planet.