Rachel Hamstra, GCFP

Hi! This is a heads up that I’m going to be out of the office May 6-12th and that I have a little availability if you want to come in before then. Here are the open spots:

- Sunday, May 3rd: 2:30, 4:00, 5:30 (my only Sunday openings left in May!)
- Monday, May 4th: 12:00

After I return, I have 9:00 open on Thursday, May 14th, and then lots of space starting on Monday, May 18th.

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Today I had the pleasure of attending a continuing education workshop with Laura van Dernoot Lipsky of The Trauma Stewardship Institute. If you haven’t read her books yet, “Trauma Stewardship” and “Age of Overwhelm”, I highly recommend them.

I had already been thinking about doing some writing around the current political changes, and then I got a chance to sit down to write after the workshop and this is what came out. I’m a little nervous sending it out, probably because my writing for work is not usually overtly political, but I hope it’s helpful to you.

Presence as Political Resistance — Rachel Hamstra, GCFP We all have our own ways of creating resistance when those in political leadership act only in self-service and hurt the people they’re supposed to be serving. Some of us march in protests. Some of us get trained in emergency medicine or law or get physically strong for when those protests go awry...

Time for a new blog post!

Ever Looked at the Soles of Your Shoes? — Rachel Hamstra, GCFP Chances are you’ve never looked at the soles of your shoes unless you needed to wipe dog p**p off them, but they can tell you so much about your walk and about when it’s time to buy new shoes! An out-of-town client who I’ll call C, and who I hadn’t seen in years, came in recently with recent...

A new blog post on getting curious about ourselves and others.

Can I Shift My Weight to the Left? I Don't Know... — Rachel Hamstra, GCFP We all have habits in everything we do. They’re an essential part of being human. They allow our brains to not think through every single thing we do all day long. They’re a survival mechanism. However, it’s important to question them now and then to make sure they’re serving us well, and ge...