Trauma bonding tends to be defined as a strong attachment with someone (or something) abusing us or causing us harm. By this definition it is inherently negative, and the advice …
Category Archives: Values
Navigating Existential Judgment
Blog by Valerie
Lately some protracted conflicts have come to the surface in my life at a macro level in the world, and at a micro level in my daily …
Embodiment
Blog by Valerie – a final chapter shared from the book that was just written
Being authentic, centred and grounded means having awareness of our core values and doing our …
Forgiveness
Here is another chapter from the book I am writing. I hope you enjoy! Blog by Valerie
Some years ago while working with practicing Jews and Christians, I realised the …
Faith, hope & trust
Blog by Valerie
Talking with a few people this week, it seems timely to share my perspective on these concepts and how I work with their energies. Though there can …
Befriending our fear
Blog by Valerie
…“You can never conquer fear, it’s always going to be there…Walking in beauty involves encountering fears, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, and getting beyond them, so we
We are Enough
Blog by Valerie
In social environments, it seems to feel proportionally less safe to be oneself the farther we identify from collective norms and ideals. There is a concept in …
Gifts of Colonialism
Blog by Valerie
When we grow up feeling like no one’s in our corner, that life is us against the world and we can’t trust anyone, many of us go …
Facts in Right Relationship
Blog by Lukas
Across the globe an increasingly dominant worldview sees reality as ultimately physical. There are various expressions of this worldview in Western philosophy, including: logical positivism, empiricism…
Toilet paper wars (from the Western worldview)
Blog by Lukas
The odds of any one individual getting the Corona virus are so far quite low, and the probability of severe symptoms or death even lower. Making individual …