Budding Roots Therapy

BPD diagnosis often gets thrown around as a way to dismiss, rather than more deeply understand. It does not have to be this way -- trauma makes us time travelers. Understanding trauma means understanding the fullness of what trauma survivors are truly responding to.

TODAY - Last TTCW!

Tending The Creatures Within: TODAY! Somatic & Relational Workshop LAST TTCW is *today* at 2pm EST! If you haven't already, you can sign up here. This is a live, online gathering to discover creative, playful ways of tending to challenging feelings in ourselves and each other. Appropriate for all levels of experience with somatic (embodied) and relational therapy.....

Tending The Creatures Within - July 13th!

Workshops For Palestine The first "Tending the Creatures Within" is happening THIS SUNDAY, July 13th! Enjoy a gentle exploration of how to be with challenging feelings with creativity, compassion, and safe relational support. This workshop is accessible to those with no previous experience in somatic (embodied) or relation...

Embodied and relational workshop at the Gestalt Institute on Monday Oct. 21st!

"Finding Our Ground" is for you if you're wanting to:

-- Connect with your authentic embodied experience
-- Explore where, when, and how you become "grounded" and "ungrounded"
-- Explore staying with your own needs and boundaries while also connecting with others
-- Find creative ways to connect with the support you are needing and yearning for

Please share with anyone who may benefit from this workshop!

Finding Our Ground | The Gestalt Institute of Toronto What do we mean when we say things like “being grounded” or “losing my ground”? In this workshop, we will explore our relationship with the ground: the literal Earth beneath us, and the symbolic “ground” that represents how supported or held we feel in any given moment. It can be especia...

There are a lot of horrors to be witnessing right now. If you take in a horrific image or information, try to give yourself a moment before moving on to the next thing. Take a breath. Look away from the screen.
Moving from horror to silly without a break is like whiplash to our system. I'm not saying, stay with only the horror. I'm just staying, take a moment. Acknowledge the impact. Maybe take a moment to consider how it is you DO want to respond, if you do want to respond. Then, decide to move on. Allow yourself to connect with pleasure, joy, humour, distraction, whatever! These are not bad things! But if we try and flit from horror to distraction, it can feel almost like we're trying to erase one with the other. And I believe that wreaks havoc on our nervous system, on our soul, and on our capacities for collective care.
Let's include our need for distraction and pleasure and connection along with our need to engage with the suffering that our own privileges are intertwined with. One CAN nourish the other. We just need to be more intentional about it...