Have you ever heard someone say, “Well, just surrender to it and trust the process,” and wonder what they meant? At Mindlight we have a beautiful definition of surrender that lands in an easy to understand emotional practice. Easy to understand, yes – to practice? Well, the best way to make it feel easy is […]
My mind offers me constant reminders of my absolute best badass life. It’s sometimes like a dreamy visioning session that feels like a warm blanket, and sometimes I’m in the deep experience of not having what I want and it’s terrible and disempowering. What’s interesting here is that, either way, I am focusing on it. […]
Mindlight works in the field of emotional mastery. We see these four aspects of life as a way of organizing our emotional experiences into specific emotional skills. Resiliency: (Internal, Survival) This is our capacity to recover and heal. To go from de-regulated emotional states to regulated. To expose and feel deeply the full range of […]
Many major incidents in our life don’t occur as traumatic because we are able to integrate them immediately. If we are given emotional support and help in understanding what has happened we are able to heal on the spot. Whether you are integrating an experience that just happened or something that occurred 20 years ago […]
Respect. It is an honor to witness the resilient human spirit. You might feel broken but we see your incomprehensible strength. We are experts at trauma recovery but you are the expert of your own experience, this is our guiding light. Radical honesty. Sometimes the wound has terrible unspeakable things to say. There might be […]
We all come to this life with a sense of wellbeing, safety in our body and environment. Trauma is when our experience is so far from that sense of safety the two can’t co-exist. Either we are experiencing that moment or there is wellbeing NOT both. This creates a temporary internal divide. Part of us […]