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Jul 92 min read
Healing Through Nature Rituals: Embracing Therapeutic Practices
In a fast-paced world where stress and anxiety often reign, searching for solace and healing becomes paramount. One powerful avenue that...
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Rachel Richards
Feb 175 min read
Sunrise / Sunset: A Shift in Perspective with A Side of Ritual (10 steps of healing)
Ephemeral phenomena Psychological research looks at the impact of natural events on human mood and behavior. “We all know the impulse to...
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Rachel Richards
Sep 13, 20231 min read
Trees of life
“Deep down, at the molecular heart of life, the trees, and we are essentially identical.” — Carl Sagan We are nature. We don’t “have a...
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Rachel Richards
Jul 4, 20231 min read
Interconnection Proof
Spent the weekend in an intense retreat in a mallorca under a ceiling that seemed to remind me of a mushroom sky. Perhaps this serves as...
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Rachel Richards
Jun 16, 20231 min read
Practice Allowing ~ A Forest
“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them...
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Rachel Richards
Feb 24, 20231 min read
The nature of thought
The nature of thought is to fall into patterns of thought that are typically of a spiral sort. This image of the self eating snake helps...
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Jan 15, 20233 min read
The Poison of Perfection
Perfectionism is a tight, heavy energy that can remove joy from everyday moments and special occasions alike. It’s the opposite of free...
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Jan 7, 20232 min read
Letting Go
I was doing some organizing today and came across an old journal I kept when training at Esalen. It was then that I learned a lot of...
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Dec 21, 20222 min read
Holiday Warning for anyone in therapy
When someone engages in deep therapy work things frequently start to change quickly and sometimes it can feel like it is not exactly for...
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Dec 13, 20221 min read
What if learning to love yourself is a radical political statement?
The society we live in doesn’t want us to love ourselves. Our western capitalist society wants us to hate ourselves, so we feel shame,...
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Dec 6, 20223 min read
Ocean Meditation
I recently had the opportunity to go to Maui and explore an island I never thought I would get to see! It was beautiful in a way that the...
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Dec 6, 20224 min read
The Psychology of Climate Change
10/25/22 Last week I heard from almost every client I saw that the smoke in the air was such that they could not go outside. Recess was...
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Dec 6, 20226 min read
Deadhead Culture of Greed
10/16/2022 I had an experience this week that was truly eye opening. As a youth to get concert tickets to see The Grateful Dead we would...
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