Allow me to tell you a story about The Sleeping Self. It’s my re-telling of an Edgar Allen Poe story, The Tell-tale Heart, and thus is a touch gruesome for a minute, so be forewarned and bear with me. There was once a woman — we’ll call her Jane — who was probably a lot like you and me: …
Dearest one, There’s stuck. And then there’s a particular kind of stuck that brilliant, hard-working, soulful women experience. I recently took a slow moment out of my day and thought back over the last 20 years of working with clients. What were the issues that they were so puzzled about and in pain over that brought them through …
See if you can relate to these 3 different (all-too-common) scenarios … In them, the patterns that drive self-doubt are born. Scenario #1: Let’s say, when child #1 was young, she could sense how overwhelmed or distracted her caregivers were. She figured out that if she was ‘good,’ didn’t have any needs, didn’t speak up, and …
In my late twenties, I had been on a years-long headlong dive into personal growth and transformation. I had started my private practice. I was making more money than I had as a dancer (and often waitress). I was on my way to healing body dysmorphia and my disordered relationship with food. But I had …
