When we are hurting it is not uncommon to look outside of ourselves for healing. Both in ways that are constructive and valuable to us as well as ways that often deplete us even more. We can often find peace from the support of our families, friends, even nature or a higher power. We see a magnificent landscape and something shifts inside of us.

       Everything in life can be seen in one of two ways: either as a direct result of something that has already happened, or as a result of complete and utter randomness. As far back as we go when we think of that magnificent landscape we probably feel a sense of both.   

       As humans, from the moment we are born our experiences imprint us. We then create responses based on these experiences. Our responses are part of a dynamic system. They include all aspects of our experience: the physical, emotional, and even energetic. The more impactful an experience we have the stronger the response to it becomes. Then the more we continue to have experiences that are similar to that impactful experience the stronger our patterned response becomes. We learn to navigate through life based on a map of our internal world. We see this same pattern play out in the more then human world.  Nothing happens in isolation.

       I see therapy as a means to help you navigate both the outer and inner landscapes. Through applied mindfulness we will pay attention to the ways we have learned to respond to the world. As we navigate our inner landscape we begin to see in return that we are really not separate from the outer landscapes that we often look to for peace and healing.