Dear human,

Your stories hold an experience that hasn’t been caught with compassion and care.

Would it be ok if I sit with you for a bit?

I wonder what it’s like to be you, right now? Right here.

I’d like that.

I wonder how it would be, if I just gently accompanied you through the telling of your life stories, with an ear to catch what hasn’t been caught? What hasn’t been metabolized? What still needs compassion and bone deep understanding?

What moments of your life have yet to be cradled in exquisite care?

Would you like some acknowledgment that all the twists and turns, heartbreaks and losses… all your cumulative lived experience, up til now, has taken its toll?

Maybe you feel alarmed and alone.

Is there a grief in your bones? Are your cells weary?

Would you love to take a break from trying to figure out how to heal, and just rest in the presence of a compassionate witness for a while?

I want to understand you. Would it be ok if I sit with you right here, only to understand?

I wonder if you need self-acceptance? Self-trust? I wonder if you need accompaniment, the sweetest elixir for aloneness?

I wonder how it would feel for someone to take a genuine interest in you, just as you are? What would it feel like being with someone who trusts that you make sense and all you need is attunement, safety, and compassion?

YOur Stories hold an experience that must be heard, felt, named and understood for your body to metabolize it.

Who even are you?

to be witnessed and understood is your emergent self. this is innate and organic self-repair.

Relational neuroscience teaches us that your wondrous brain literally built itself to accommodate the life circumstances you’ve needed to survive.

That’s right! Your brain isn’t broken; it’s exquisitely responsive to environment. Relational neuroscience also teaches us that safe relationship is the ultimate elixir.

Like a plant grows toward light, innately and intelligently, bodies are self-healing with conditions that allow it to do so; the brain will repair, just like a plant grows towards the light and stretches its roots into nutrient rich soil.

No rush. No quick fixes. Just relational repair, body repair at it’s own sweet pace. (Relational rupture doesn’t happen overnight (and it’s all relational rupture.) We give your body the time they need.

The listening room is where you can unravel the knots of identity and story and meet your true, emerging,intelligent and compassionate self:

Tell me, friend, what’s it like to be you right now?