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Sylvia integrates trauma-informed spiritual counseling, nature connection and ancestral wisdom to support you to heal and reclaim yourself and your families.
Sylvia integrates trauma-informed spiritual counseling, nature connection and ancestral wisdom to support you to heal and reclaim yourself and your families.
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Learn more about this simple yet innovative series of exercises that assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma.
Sylvia integrates trauma-informed spiritual counseling, nature connection and ancestral wisdom to support you to heal and reclaim yourself and your families.
September 17 All day as I am meeting with parents, we talk about grief. I listen, drop in my heart and give space for tears that need to flow. They say, “it’s been a week, but I can’t stop crying.”
September 15 WOW. THANK YOU for hearing and responding to my cry for help!!! Again I can’t sleep, so I’m going to try, however feebly, to express my enormous gratitude and how you are touching us so deeply… I’ve always
September 14 It’s hard to cry when your lungs are burning and compromised from exposure to off the charts hazardous air quality. My chest heaves raggedly and its hard to breathe but I honestly cannot stop crying. I can’t sleep
September 12 My courageous mama brought my family from Mexico for a better life. She was extremely resourceful. As a child, she would place me in dumpsters and have me get the things that looked useful. The families I’m trying
The other day a client said something I’ve heard repeatedly throughout the years and understand deeply, “I never worried like this, until (insert tragedy here/loss of loved one) and now I have so much more fear and anxiety.” A parent
Every day we receive differing information as the pandemic unfolds. Fear and scarcity is driving a lot of the narratives and it is all too easy for people everywhere to move into their protective defenses of fear, control or escape
Hopefully, you’ve had a chance to restore and integrate the pieces from Part 1 that resonate for you. Remember that the journey of motherhood, and working from home is an ongoing and ever-changing one. No matter what the day before
In my weekly community call and free sessions during this time, the issue of balancing working at home with children is primary. Here are a few reflections, offered in two parts to support you to integrate the pieces that resonate
In my free weekly community zoom call, we’ve addressed a confusion around managing the fear of the virus at this time. In the healing world, we commonly address fears that feed anxiety which are born of the inner critic or trauma
Children thrive with honesty Even if they are younger and you think they may not be aware of what is happening, they are always listening to adult conversations and they pick up our own feelings of irritability, anxiety, and fear.