Where have Paris and I been for the past four days? Down in Cochrane, at a Josh Nichol Relational Horsemanship clinic. I went last year and took my dressage horse, Faraona, because I needed help to understand how to work with Faraona’s huge energy. I had spent the winter on Youtube, watching different clinicians and searching for one whose ideas about horses, relationship, and energy aligned with how I understand things. When I came across Josh Nichol, I found my teacher

This past weekend, I took a 3-day workshop called ‘Mothering the Bones’, led by Angela Dechaine of Wellspring Craniosacral Therapy. This course intrigued me when I read about ‘tending the female pelvis’ – an area that I had not learned much about in my Somatic Experiencing training – and we would be taught how to touch and hold women in their pelvic area in a supportive and healing manner. In my previous bodywork trainings, I have never had the sense of safety and clarity

This is me, just a few months old – a very long time ago, as you can tell by the picture. I had a difficult birth, with my mother in labor for many hours. Finally, the doctor ‘put her out’ and delivered me. That is all we know. Birth trauma has become my passion in the Somatic Experiencing work. The more I learn about how a difficult beginning affects us throughout our lives, the more I see evidence of this in my clients. Asking what they know about their birth is now

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. Ernest Hemingway Wanting to understand what it is about the work I do that resonates with my clients, I asked a few if they would be willing to write a couple of sentences about their experience of working with me. One client couldn’t condense her experience into a short paragraph, so wrote what came to her and asked if I could condense it into a shorter form. As I read what she wrote, I knew t