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Sylvia integrates trauma-informed spiritual counseling, nature connection and ancestral wisdom to support you to heal and reclaim yourself and your families.
Sylvia integrates trauma-informed spiritual counseling, nature connection and ancestral wisdom to support you to heal and reclaim yourself and your families.
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Learn more about this simple yet innovative series of exercises that assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma.
(I wrote this ages ago for the Inner bonding website, and just realized I never posted it here. It is still just as essential, so I share it with all of you in the hopes you will find your ways
These past few weeks my daughter and son have been co-creating a nature ‘school’ with me that we have been sharing with some beautiful families. It has been so fun dreaming up crafts, activities, stories, games, and sharing songs. I’m
For years now, we have known that my son’s middle school years would be a time to do something different. My husband with his PhD in Education and my experience as a school social worker and counselor, led us both
My dear friend Melinda who we recently held fundraisers for has been given days to weeks to live. While this is heartbreaking and feels tragic to me, it is balanced by our recent time together on a walk to a
Just when we think we ‘have things (somewhat) figured out” children fortunately continue to teach us. Sabriel, my youngest, has given me many mothering moments where I have felt relaxed and experienced AND he has also challenged me immensely to
Recently I wrote this autobiographical essay on the power nature connection and conscious mothering have had in my life, and why I do what I do… I recall very few moments of my young life, except those steeped in
A couple weeks ago, my children and I attended Acorn gathering, a natural living skills community event just north of Santa Barbara. Five days of camping solo with my children often feels daunting to me, but at Acorn it was
This night felt like a movie. We were at City Hall for a City council meeting where our neighborhood showed up in full force, wearing red shirts, to protestrezoning for a high density complex that would bring more traffic into
So much of what we do in this society is based on the idea that there is an arrival point. A place and time where we will finally ‘have it all’ ‘feel complete’ ‘reach that goal’ or ‘be at peace.’
A guiding premise of my work is that we do not need to look to others for happiness and contentment. We may need guidance to help us come back to center and the richness within, but the truth about what
