Most parents and caregivers know that family meals with little ones can be filled with tears, fussiness, antsy little bodies and frustrated adults. It is no coincidence. Meal times at the end of the day have us all tired, overstimulated and often hangry. What we know from the work by Daniel Siegel on Interpersonal Neurobiology is that connecting to other humans, relating in socially enhancing ways can facilitate a calmer, less rigid and more flexible approach to challenges...

I often ask my clients what brings them into couples therapy NOW? Answers range from mild curiosity to severe urgency, wherever clients are at I admire and marvel at the willingness to seek support. In a culture that often prizes endurance, industriousness, and the ability to DIY, turning to professionals with the most intimate of struggles can feel like failing. Indeed, most of us grew up wishing our caregivers had more help with their intimate relationship. Some of us were

Sometimes our small parts need a moment to breathe, they need to regulate and find a sense of flow and rhythm with our environment. Mindfulness, turning towards our body with trust, following our breath, noticing the way our presence interacts with nature and nature responds to our presence... sometimes that is all we can do. Children do this, quite intuitively. We can re-learn what has been hidden and taken away by trauma and the efforts of becoming adults. We can sit, at ed