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"Healing is a matter of knowing that we can be shattered and yet we are still whole."
- Saki Santorelli, Heal Thyself: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine
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Emotional Release Work
I am trained in Re-evaluation Counseling, RC for short, a method I have used myself for twenty years to clear the emotional
and physical bodies of held energy from past hurts and traumas. Through discharge (crying, laughing, shaking, sweating, etc.)
in the presence of a trained RC counselor, people are able to move through the pain to release the "charge" around
the original hurt or experience. The counselor's role is to:
1) hold the bowl of truth and safety for her clients, which is that they are not one with their distress, but bigger than
anything they've experienced; that they are by nature joyful, compassionate, loving, exuberant, creative, connected beings
with an infinite capacity for experiencing and expressing these attributes;
2) provide a contradiction (a greater truth) to the distress that allows clients to move into the emotions of whatever
pain is being held;
3) bring clients safely and surely back into present time.
After enough discharge, clients are able to then re-evaluate for themselves the stories they've held, possibly for years,
that have limited their well-being and affected others around them.
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Inner Child / Re-Parenting Work
For those of us whose wounding and pain originated in childhood (and this is so for most of the people who work with me),
a necessary part of healing is a reclaiming of that person we came into this world as- the bright and shining child who believes
all things are possible. Inner Child/Re-parenting work is extremely useful in this process and can involve several elements,
including:
1) listening to what the younger parts of us have to say (through journaling, drawing, talking, meditation, etc.);
2) becoming able to respond to what's revealed with love and understanding rather than with judgment or criticism;
3) learning to give unconditional love to what we've believed was unlovable in ourselves by learning that our less-than
life-giving patterns of behavior were usually developed as children in response to messages we received from adults around
us, adults who were themselves living with old patterned responses based on unhealed hurts;
4) re-parenting these younger parts by setting limits on acting-out behavior and by learning and practicing, as the adult,
appropriate self care in response to pain, injury, injustice, etc.
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