“[My grandmother] split her meager retirement check with me to help me become a writer. She was my angel, the person I could always depend on… Because of her, I know that if you are lucky enough to have one person believe in you, you have made it.” -from Survival Lessons by Alice Hoffman Hello!…
Today I want to share the below quote from the poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke. It is something to ponder and get curious about. It also helped me to frame a recent experience that I had making peace with my deeper truth, which I want to share with you. Read on to learn more!…
What is pain? All pain is brain pain… By that, I mean that all pain experienced by a person is measurable inside their brain. Yes, even emotional pain can be measured in the same areas of the brain as physical pain. All pain resides in the body-mind complex and all pain is real. All pain…
Pain is an inevitable part of life, because pain has a purpose… The purpose of pain is to show you where in your internal landscape things have gone awry, become too constricted, have too long gone unaddressed, or need healing. When we avoid and ignore pain, we remain in a state that in the long…
I created Terra Nova Somatic Arts so that I could give back to others after experiencing the transformative power of somatic practices along with other complimentary modalities, like life coaching, mindfulness, and shadow integration. This blog and business has been made with you in mind because I heartily believe that the tools, techniques, and practices…
Somatics or mind-body therapies and practices offer profound ways to: connect with ourselves and others experience presence find sources of deep nourishment heal and transform in lasting ways In somatic work, the mind and body are treated as whole, not as separate entities. So, when we address the mind, we address the body and visa…
