Hello Heart

I used to think couples therapy was mostly about communication skills.

Then I became certified in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and realized that underneath every conflict is a deeper longing: to feel seen, safe, chosen, connected. 🤍

EFT changed everything for me, the way I understand love, attachment, intimacy, and healing. Personally and professionally.

And now… I’ve officially begun my training with the Couples Institute ☀️✨♥️

I’m continuing to deepen into couples work through the Developmental Model, an approach that doesn’t treat conflict as something to avoid, but as a doorway. To growth. To deeper connection. To transformation.

What’s already moving me is the concept of differentiation:
Learning how to stay connected to your partner without abandoning yourself.

How to meet differences with curiosity instead of defensiveness.

How to build a relationship where both people feel emotionally safe and fully, unapologetically themselves.
This work goes far beyond communication tools. It moves into the deeper terrain, the emotional patterns, the relational dynamics, the quiet ways we protect ourselves in love without even realizing it. And how, with awareness, couples can move toward something more conscious, more honest, more alive.

The more I learn, the more passionate I become about helping couples build relationships that feel secure, alive, real, and deeply connected. 🫶🏼

So grateful to be on this path.
Excited for everything unfolding ahead.

Stay tuned ☀️✨😻

www.HelloHeart.Org

As therapists, coaches, and leaders, the way we show up during moments of collective pain matters.

Many Iranians in Canada are living through a profound and destabilizing historical moment. The impact is not theoretical it shows up in nervous systems, relationships, identity, and belonging.

Silence is rarely experienced as neutrality. When significant experiences affecting a community are met with avoidance or lack of acknowledgment, the harm is often compounded.

Cultural humility in moments like this does not require perfect language or complete knowledge. It requires presence, curiosity, and a willingness to name what is already in the room.

This is an ethical opportunity, for our professions and our leadership, to choose relational safety over distance, and care over avoidance.

Please read through the slides, and reach out if you have questions or would like to engage in further discussion.
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Grief, Softness, and the Books That Can Hold Us♥️

Grief is one of the most profound, and least linear, experiences we encounter as human beings. It is not only about death. It can arise when life shifts, when dreams change, when identities dissolve, or when imagined futures quietly disappear.

One of the most tender moments in my experience, is when realizing,
“Oh… maybe I’m grieving.”

That naming alone can bring soft permission to feel, to pause, to make sense of what was once just a vague ache.

Grief is messy. It’s not a straight line or a five-step process. It’s an ocean.🌊🩵

And yet, in its roughness, there can be surprising softness, places where grief brings us back to what matters most. Sometimes, it even grows the ground beneath us in ways we didn’t expect.

Here are three books that have offered refuge, language, and gentle guidance for navigating loss in its many forms♥️

• The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller
A soulful, poetic invitation to deepen into grief and ritual, offering grief not as pathology but as praise.

• Belonging by Toko-pa Turner
A meditation on exile and return, this book speaks to the grief of not fitting, and the healing of reclaiming inner and ancestral belonging.

• When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön
A timeless offering for those in transition, reminding us how to stay present and soft when life becomes uncertain or undone.

If you’re grieving, recently or long ago, loudly or silently, you’re not alone.
Your grief belongs.♥️
And you are not broken for feeling it.

🖤♥️