Whew! Winter! Love and greetings from Resilient Rosalie from across the Interwebs!
I feel like I’m creeping forward both with my physical health and with my personal trauma healing – coming out of deep freeze into greater aliveness. Slow but real progress. Stay tuned, and may you receive every possible flavor of support.
Here’s what I cover in this newsletter. It’s a bit long, feel free to jump around and read what interests you.
- Personal update – navigating the moment
- Safe and Sound Protocol; Rest and Restore Protocol
- Couples work
- Longer sessions
- New individual trauma healing clients
Personal update – navigating the moment
First, a few milestones.
Today (Feb 5) is 40 years from the day my first child was born.
And I just did the math, and New Years Day just over a month ago marked the time when all of my children are now older than I was when I birthed my youngest child. There’s something comforting in that. They are four brilliant adults more equipped than I ever was to meet this life and this world.
Nicole, Jonathan, Felix, and Melody, I am very proud of all of you.
Rosalie’s interpretation/translation of the ACA (Adult Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families) Step One (of Twelve Steps) Affirmations.
Mistakes
More of the Good Stuff, Please!
Staying Alive! Safe and Sound, Rest and Restore
It’s been a long time.
I haven’t sent out a newsletter since November last year.
The election of Donald Trump to the US Presidency was an existential shock for me, as I know it was for a lot of people.
And of course, the more that bad stuff happens, in our lives and in the world, the more important it is for us to do our practices, whatever connects us to resource and support.
I invite you to take a moment right now and ask yourself, “What do I know how to do for self-care, connection, aliveness, and grounding that I have not been doing? What might I want to add to my daily or weekly practices?”
It’s so interesting. When I asked myself that question just now, I jumped around a bit but landed here: I want to explicitly remind myself several times a day, “It’s ok for me to be who I am.”
“It’s ok for me to be who I am.”
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