Nearly every week, someone sits across from me and says, “I don’t think I have trauma.” They say it gently. Almost apologetically. And as we talk, I notice the way their shoulders stay slightly raised. The way their breath never quite drops into their belly. The way they flinch — almost imperceptibly — when they describe someone getting too close. Trauma does not always announce itself as catastrophe. Sometimes it is simply the body that never learned it was safe. Roughly 70%

For a big part of my life, I lived from the neck up. I could analyze desire. I could theorize intimacy, and I could speak about embodiment while barely feeling my own hips. And in that soul flight, I married someone I can now see I had no business gravitating toward. But even then, there are moments when something disrupted that pattern — a breath that dropped lower than usual, an altered state that dissolved the mind’s architecture — where suddenly you are not thinking. I wa

I’ve been reflecting lately on how we find our way home when the world feels like a hall of mirrors. I once had a season that felt like a masterclass in "the search." By day, I was working at the Chopra Center—all white linens, chakra meditations, and promises of perfect peace (we all know now what that particular brand of "enlightenment" was masking). But I also had a very odd, one-day encounter with a rigid spiritual group (Santo Daime) that felt less like "expansion" and m

Not sure if you’ve read George Orwell’s 1984, but I think about that novel a lot these days. It's pretty deeply Jungian in its bones. Orwell wasn’t guessing at the future; he was paying close attention to the psychological and relational patterns already present in his time and indicating that history repeats itself when unexamined. You might've heard Jung's quote: “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”   Anyway, what f

For therapists: Angela holds an ongoing supervision group (three sessions each season) with her RCC colleague, Jill Koehler, which you...

Not all caregivers wear a label. Some are sons who learned to be the steady ground for a parent’s storm. Others are partners who have become the silent architects of someone else’s peace, fixing wounds that aren’t their own. Many are men who have moved through life believing their worth is measured by their invulnerability—their ability to be an endless well of availability. These are the men I sit with. They may not call themselves caregivers, yet they have spent a lifetime

Sex therapy is a specialized form of therapy designed to help individuals or couples address and overcome challenges related to their...

There’s a certain kind of woman who finds her way into this space. She’s bright, sensitive, thoughtful. She feels deeply, thinks constantly, and often holds more than her share of emotional weight in her relationships. Sometimes, she arrives feeling overwhelmed. Not always in crisis—but often in a quiet, private state of confusion or fatigue that she hasn't been able to name. She's functional. Capable. But exhausted from the inside out. She might describe herself as someone w

It is ALWAYS the therapists' responsibility to hold the sexual boundary in psychotherapy. Why? Because some clients WILL test the...

One of my favourite books was given to me by one of my best friend's Sarah and it's a book by Jean Shinoda Bolen on the Goddess Artemis. ...

You may've heard of the Greek Goddess Aphrodite as the Goddess of Love and Beauty. Fair enough, but Aphrodite isn't just the goddess of...

You ever notice how we carry stories in our bodies? Like ghosts stitched into our nervous systems. Most of us are out here trying to love...

In September, I had the opportunity to attend a women's liberation meditation retreat at Spirit Rock. During my visit, I stumbled upon...

There is an ancient Sumerian myth that lives in the bones of many women. She came before the Greeks spoke of her as the simply beautiful...

Let’s start with one simple fact: the mind is a powerful thing. It can liberate us, or it can restrict us. In the case of orgasm, the...

Many of us have heard the myth of Medusa turning anyone who looked at her to stone. Well, like fairytales, myths describe unconscious...

Do you remember the original Rapunzel? As a kid, I loved her long, flowing hair that she’d let down for the prince to climb up. The witch...

Repunzle's journey—from being locked away in isolation to eventually finding freedom and self-empowerment—parallels the struggle many...

If you were raised by a mother who had unresolved issues, you may find yourself unknowingly carrying patterns of fear-avoidant attachment...

So excited to share the latest Earth Priestess Podcast episode featuring the beautiful Spring Washam! She really offers a unique blend of...