Not everyone who has experienced some form of trauma develops an addiction, but everyone who has an addiction, has experienced some form of trauma. Addiction was a solution to underlying distresses. Together we will discover and work through and out of the fears of living life. You will learn how to discover your true triggers as well as how to utilize them as strengths to fulfill the life you desire.

For some, experiences of the past have shaken up our perceptions on how the world should be. Living in a state of confusion from how we believed life should be for us and seems to be our current life is nowhere aligned with it. Due to these disturbances, one has created protective factors to prevent anything that remotely resembles such past experiences, hindering us from any sense of joy, love or happiness. There are no incurable people, just incurable states of mind. Together we will learn how to shift our state of mind to support us in our endeavors rather than limit us. Let’s allow the mind to speak rather than the body.

A mystical experience is a state of consciousness in which an individual experiences the sense of one with the Universe, with God, with the Source or whatever name he or she may use to represent such divinity. Mystical experiences are temporary glimpses into our most sacred and ancient home of Consciousness. Roughly 50% of Americans alone have reported to have a mystical experience. One can experience such states by a psychedelic/hallucinogenic experience, a spiritual awakening through yoga or meditation, a near death experience, a religious experience or even learning about a new philosophy of life. Far too often people feel alone in these experiences as they are unsure of how to process and integrate what they experienced; let alone face the ridicule that their family or society may place upon them. Together we will dive deep into the experience you were gifted and learn how to integrate it into your everyday life so that you are more in tune with your true Self.

The word “trauma” gets thrown around a lot. Often times in the manner of comparing whose trauma is worse or the fact that you just experienced that you should be traumatized. The truth is trauma can look different for everyone. Trauma can be a very tough thing to go through but once it is understood that it is not permanent the process begins. Learn to take the PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and transform it to PTG (Post Traumatic Growth).

Grief and loss may come in a multitude of different ways. The familiar understanding of grief is that an individual is mourning the loss of a loved one, but grief can also be felt during any drastic change in our lives such as; divorce or changes in a relationship, changes in your health or the health of a loved one, losing a job or changes in financial security, it could even be felt when a new concept of life has been understood. It can manifest physically as in aches and pains or cognitively as in an inability to concentrate. Sometimes grief and loss may close our hearts to others thus leading to relationship strains.

Grief affects everyone; the immediate person who may be dying the caregiver, the family, their friends and lovers. Grief does not always happen after the loss but can arise as a response in anticipation of the loss to come or be stacked throughout the process of letting go (the loss of health, social and familial roles or mobility) If you don’t grieve fully, in a way that is true to your own heart, you may end up with cynicism about life and fear of future involvement, fear of any risk It’s not about returning to ‘normal,’ but becoming someone new, free to be present for whatever your life is now.

Grief is a process. It is as unique as the person we have lost, but as individualistic as each and everyone who goes through it.

Sex and intimacy aren’t the same thing. There’s intimate sex and un-intimate sex. There’s intimacy without sex and sex without intimacy. The great paradox of intimacy can leave individuals confused. In some cases individuals misalign their intimacy and sex and often can result in leaving out the critical parts of a relationship (developing trust, getting to know each other, learning to feel safe, exploring each other’s vulnerabilities and awkwardness as well as growing with each other) resulting in one party, or both parties, less likely to feel close.

When you feel intimate with someone you are open to the disappointments, irritations, neediness, self-absorbed tendencies and feeling intruded upon allowing them to dissolve.

To understand that you first fall in love with love and then you fall in love with the other individual is a game changer to an uplifting experience and partner relationship.

When we are intimate with others we create lasting stories. What stories you stack in your awareness creates the image of the supporting characters in your narrative. Unresolved issues can be carried into these sexual moments leaving the experience null and void and maybe even backfire. The challenge of intimacy is that you must transition to truly loving a person, and then ecstatically having sex with him or her.

You may have to discover that your beloved brings back memories that are toxic and have nothing to do with him. You may realize that you both lack the ability to truly talk to one another, and it's having an impact on enjoying sex together. Or, the power of intimacy and sex may be bringing out insecurities that have laid dormant for years. It may be time to do some tough growing up.