The Practice of Becoming Ourselves

 

We often believe that we can solve relational issues on our own. But real change happens only through the act of relating differently to others. Growth requires a new kind of practice, one that unfolds in connection. I offer a space where that new way of being can take shape.

 

When we’ve spent years, even decades, living inside our own mental landscape, it isn’t always the safest place to meet our truest self. We need the trust of unguarded acceptance to experiment with fuller, more embodied, and congruent versions of who we are.

 

I work well with individuals who tend to be hard on themselves — those who hold themselves to impossibly high standards. This self-demand can become a way of shutting others out. It also fragments our inner world, disconnecting us from the parts of ourselves we’ve exiled or deemed unacceptable.

 

Who are we without that inner condemnation? Who might we become if we stopped measuring ourselves by what we were taught we had to be in order to be loved or accepted? The process is learning to live from the inside out, rather than from the outside in. This work is about offering ourselves the same grace we so readily extend to others.

 

I am particularly drawn to working with those who have spent much of their lives attuning to the needs and emotions of others. Together, we recalibrate toward your own inner experience, learning to recognize, trust, and express your true feelings and thoughts after years of self-abandonment.