Connecting Within and With Community
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.
(These are FEMA trailers) I’ve been making home visits since I was 22 and had to flip through a giant book of maps (aka Thomas Guide) to figure out where I was going! I’ve always loved being with people in
Something beautiful that happens in my ongoing (now zoom) circles because we walk together in the ups and downs of life, is when someone gets triggered into the lies of insecurity, unlovabilty, feeling stuck/disempowered, we can help. We say, “No,
(Before embarking on other memoir pieces, I’m adding some of my recent FB posts to have them here) When I was 10 years old, I had been placed in one foster home but had requested to move to another where
A few years ago, I was helping put on a protest against a notorious anti-immigrant political figure who came into town to support a local anti immigrant candidate. (not going to give him any free publicity here) As I stood
Angelica Florio is a gifted leader and storyteller with beautiful insight on the need for and potency in mutual aid/helping each other. I’m honored to be included here. There were and continue to be SO MANY MORE caring people rising
The lights in the dark this week have been all of the truly thoughtful, generous, caring souls who have come my way, beginning with those who have gone ABOVE and beyond the call caring for and adopting familias. Local folk
It’s hard to pause when there is still so much need. So I’m not doing a great job, but I am slowing down and seeing how much my nervous system has needed it. But the fact is as long as
When I was a 19yo, emancipated foster youth navigating my way through college life and depression, I got connected to Friends of the Foster Children. They were one of the first to show me the value of having ordinary people
We had so much fun with this sweet familia decorating their hotel room! I don’t usually show pics but they wanted to share 🙂 We went on a mission together to see how we could cheer up their small space,
This week I took our cooperativo to forage for Manzanita berries and acorns. We visited a lot in our neighborhood which appeared to be vacant. The children ran, explored and discovered beautiful oak galls, golden orbs with red speckles. They
