Below is Sarah Westbrook’s “Heart Treatise,” given as part of her speech at Heartwood’s Spring Event: Planting Seeds of Health & Hope: Emerging Strong from Covid. The treatise is part vow to oneself, part Covid era Manifesto. The HEART has been described as a GARDEN by almost every spiritual tradition. Why? How is a ga…

Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.” ~ Rumi Photograph by Genaro Servín, Pexels Wouldn’t it be nice to accept all parts of ourselves and feel welc…

When my daughter was very little, she used to cover her eyes, and pretend that I couldn’t see her. She’d giggle with delight as I walked around the room saying, “Where’s is she?! Oh, my goodness, she disappeared!!” Then all at once she would yank her hands down, regaining ‘visibility’ and squeal with delight at my awed…

You’ve got a sacred body! To me that means it is imbued with Spirit; it means it IS Spirit. You could say that listening to your body is prayer. During a Lyrical Healing session that’s what happens; We listen to You. We listen to your body and your words, your heart and your head. It is all worth tending to. Because he…

“The best thing to do when it is raining is to let it rain.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Photo by Josh Hild (Pexels) What does it mean to let it rain when it’s raining? (Or snow when it’s snowing 😉 My answer points to a core tenet of Craniosacral therapy. Yesterday I was feeling agitated, angry, and distressed. I went t…

“…instead of struggling to erase what are referred to as negative emotions, we can learn to use them in positive ways. we could describe the principle like this: while pounding on the piano keys may produce noise, removing them doesn’t exactly further the creation of music. The principles of Music and Living aren’t all…

Northwest CASA is seeking a trauma therapist for the new year.  Bilingual (English/Spanish) is preferred but not mandatory. EMDR training and support will be offered as well. Send a resume to Caryn Brauweiler, the Director of Counseling at cbrauweiler@nwcasa.org.…

“And if you cannot find your way out of the darkness I will sit there with you and show you the stars.” N.R. Hart During a session recently I found myself mindlessly utilizing a Zero Balancing technique on a client’s wrist. I “came to” as I realized that nothing was happening. So I stopped doing Zero Balancing and star…

“To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.” ~ Stephen Levine I’ve been thinking about connection as healing… Dr. John Upledger, developer of CranioSacral therapy, used the word “blending” to describe the connection that allows change but does not impose it. To me connection is about hono…