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

I have sung in choirs my whole life and now, as a senior citizen, singing in a chamber choir is one of the few intergenerational things I still get to do, so it was a great pleasure when our choir was asked to join three choirs from our local university in a production of Vivaldi’s Gloria.  The rehearsals introduced me to the current generation of students, and I can now see how much society has evolved since the time I was a student.   I had attended this university for my s