Book Release: Feb 15th

Coming Soon to Apple Books

Reimagine a deeper story of Hagar’s life. Reckon with the important ways she is first in the Genesis narrative.

• As a slave, she is the first oppressed woman in the Bible

• She is the first woman to experience use, abuse & rejection in the text

• Hagar is the first female in scripture to liberate herself from oppressive power structures

• She is the first person to receive a visit from a divine messenger.

• She is the only woman to receive a direct promise of many descendants. 

• She is the first person to give God a name.

• She is the first freed slave

How we understand her story sets the trajectory for seeing every woman in the Bible. Her story matters.

Check out my website for more information on book groups beginning in May and a course beginning in October!

Growing Around Mother Hunger

In her piercing memoir Know My Name, Chanel Miller describes healing as growing around…

“Most people say developing is linear, but for survivors it is cyclic. People grow up, victims grow around; we strengthen around the places that hurt, becoming older and fuller, but the vulnerable core is never gone.”

In August, I’ll be launching a new community of women exploring the book Mother Hunger by Kelly McDaniel. This is a way to understand how we have growth strength around the vulnerable core of our unmothered childhoods as we are cared for and understood by those on a similar journey.

• Monthly for 10 months (August 2024 thru May 2025)

• 90-minute group sessions via zoom

• Cost: $100 per month

Reach out by June 1st to hear more and begin the process of being placed in a group.

Dealing with Dread

“Dread is just memory in the future tense.”

These words, written by English pediatrician and psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, clarify why dread is such a complex emotion to manage. It is both rooted in a memory of past pain and distress that actually occurred and the future, something that’s possible but hasn’t yet happened.

Winnicott’s words help me stay curious as I deal with my dread in a way that keeps it from draining my vitality.

• What is my dread trying to warn me about?

• How do I better care for myself in intense seasons of emotional fear?

• What does it mean to stay in the reality of my present when my alarm bells about a not-yet-true future are going off?

• How do I listen to my dread with validation about what it remembers but not let it rule my internal landscape?

For more resources on emotional regulation and how to care for our minds, hearts and bodies check out my upcoming seminars on Polyvagal Theory:

Tuesday October 17th 7-9pm MST

Saturday December 2nd 9-11am MST

Appropriate TENSION

After a long hiatus my monthly newsletter is back online. Each month I’ll share about a healing element that is enriching my journey and upcoming content I create in response to the needs of my clients. I’m doing more virtual teaching than ever before so please share this with others across the globe!

Diving in….

This diagram has been living rent-free in my mind for weeks! It’s from the insightful Seth Godin and appeared in his blog this past July. His thoughts on risk and growth apply so deeply to those of us recovering from childhood trauma. How do we live, love and relax in the world when how we FEEL doesn’t always align what’s ACTUAL? I’m realizing that navigating relationship in a healthier way means first discerning which box I’m in and that’s neither easy nor simple for survivors. I have so many more thoughts about these four squares and they are shaping the seminars, workshops and groups I’m leading this fall.

Online Seminars

October 17th: Emotional Regulation Seminar (12 participants)

• 7:00-8:30 PM MST

• Cost $125

In Person Workshops

November 2th: The Four Attachment Styles (12 participants)

• @ Shama Collective in Littleton, CO

• 3 hours beginning @ 5:30-8:30 PM

• Cost: $195

November 9th: Healing Disorganized Attachment (12 participants)

• @ Shama Collective in Littleton, CO

• 3 hours beginning @ 5:30-8:30 PM

• Cost $195

Online Monthly Groups

Daughters of Traumatized Mothers Learning Group (8 participants)

• First Tuesday of every month

• 60 minutes beginning @ 6:30 PM MST

• Cost: $50

Between Touches Movie + Story Membership (6 participants)

• Third Tuesday of every month

• 90 minutes beginning @ 6:00 AM MST

• Cost: $95

BEGINNING JANUARY 2024

Healing from Childhood Trauma (8 participants)

• Online monthly learning group for disorganized attachment

• First Sunday of every month

• 90 minutes beginning @ 6:00 PM MST

• Cost: $75

“Every person we have ever known, every place we have ever seen, everything that has ever happened to us—it all lives and breathes deep in us somewhere whether we like it or not, and sometimes it doesn’t take much to bring it to the surface in bits and pieces.”

~Frederick Buechner