Sublime

IFS recognizes that the cultivation of mindful self-leadership is the foundation for healing from trauma. Mindfulness not only makes it possible to survey our internal landscape with compassion and curiosity but can also actively steer us in the right direction for self-care.

ignoring the Dreaming is an undiagnosed global epidemic.

Lucid Dreaming: The Power of Being Awake and Aware in Your Dreams (1985)

in all Asian languages, the word that is translated into English as “mind” could also be translated as “heart.”

The following model of how we contract and compartmentalize was developed by Wilhelm Reich (Austrian, 1897–1957). He was a student of Elsa Gindler (German, 1885–1961). Many Western-based somatics traditions use this model.

In some traditions, there are women whose job it is to grieve on behalf of those who are stuck with inability to touch their own grief. {44}

This is dissociation mode. People who enter this mode leave their bodies psychologically. Many, like me, may appear present, interacting with others, though mentally be far off on their own ‘spaceship’. Some detach so completely that they view the event as a dream. Others develop amnesia.

Body-Mind Centering, developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen,

In designing your workshops, you’re co-creating the conditions for self-discovery in a supportive community using liberating practices. You’re offering a safe space for individuals like Melanie to practice becoming choosers and deciders, and to realize that they have freedom in how to relate to themselves, others, and the world.