How Highly Sensitive People can Conquer Overwhelm and Depletion and Leverage their Special Gifts

As a Therapeutic Touch teacher and coach, I’ve met a host of highly sensitive people. Deeply empathic and highly intuitive, they tell me they find themselves easily overwhelmed and/or depleted by others and the world around them. Often highly creative, introspective and reflective, many are drawn to the healing arts where their special empathic and … [Read more...]

Healing Wounds One Layer at a Time

Illnesses, loss of loved ones, career missteps and relationship failures, accidents, traumas or past abuse are part of the human conditions we are all subject to. Whether minor or serious these setbacks can leave their mark. They are part of our history and life story. What matters is not the thing itself but how we relate to it…how we see it … [Read more...]

Is Active Listening Possible When You’re Upset or Angry?

It's well recognized that the capacity to innovate is a function of active listening and is often compromised by chronic job and life stressors and energy traps.  Your ability to listen and actually hear is influenced internally, by what you are feeling and what you are thinking and externally, by stimuli that distracts you. Active listening … [Read more...]