Restoring Our Sacred Hearts
A Pathway to Becoming More Fully Human: An Eco-Psychology Women’s Group
Are you exhausted? Anxious? Depressed? Do you struggle with disordered eating and addiction? Is it hard for you to say no and set boundaries? Are you scared of truly living your life? Are you resentful towards those close to you?
Do you have a difficult time following through on what you truly desire? Do you feel lost, alone, or isolated? Is it a chore to try to love yourself?
Women, many of these symptoms are signs that deeper-rooted issues are occurring in your life: trauma (failures of love). When we are not treated well, our bodies collapse and shut down, and we get anxious and find ways to avoid our pain. One of the most vital ways of coming back home to ourselves after trauma is through connecting back to communities of care, our heart, nature, and creativity. This course is designed to support you in this reconnection.
Restoring our Sacred Hearts is a women’s group container for slowly tending to the opening of your heart, to learning to love again—yourself, your human brothers and sisters, and our more-than-human kin. Imagine that your wildest grief, your greatest passions, your heart desires, and your longing to fully love life no longer need to be held alone. There is a kinship of soulful beauty emerging from the depths and heights of earth, calling us to bring forth the wisdom of the heart into our everyday ordinary lives. Do you feel it?
Who is this group for:
This group is for you if you are longing for a deeper connection to your somatic and spiritual heart center; if you know your life could have more vitality, love, belonging, and creativity, and you have the resources and space to begin to cultivate this. This group was created by me, a woman, for women who long to reconnect to their female hearts. Whether you have been in psychotherapy before or not, you are welcome. This 9-week exploration is designed to take each of you deeper into your humanity, animal body, and your greatest love. This course is alchemical, and metaphorically we will be mirroring what is happening in autumn in the wild—-we will hold space for the leaves, wildflowers, berries and other pieces of earth of us to decompose in the soil, to reap their beautiful fruit and flowering next Spring.
This course will include:
Learning how to sit in council with others, to listen deeply, from the heart.
Real conversations with other women.
Practices that support your flourishing by listening to your heart, womb, and body’s truth.
A Map for the Seven Cardinal Directions and how they influence your psyche (Influenced by Bill Plotkin’s Wild Mind Map).
Poetry, Dance, Story, Song.
Exercises on how to set limits and boundaries and to be clear with your Yes and No.
This group is a safe and supportive space where confidentiality is paramount. We deeply respect each person’s right to exist and are committed to treating one another with dignity and respect. This ensures that everyone can fully engage in the course without fear of judgment or breach of privacy.
Details
Start Date: Wednesdays 6:00- 8:00 pm beginning on October 2nd.
9 meetings.
Location: Cheyenne Canyon In-Person
8 participants: Women.
Cost: $450
Or sliding scale: $350-$550
(If you contribute more, it allows someone who can contribute less to participate). Payment plans are also available.
This is a closed container, and to honor the depth of intimacy and relational building, I request that you not miss more than two sessions. If we need to discuss this beforehand, because you long to do the course but need to miss more than two sessions, please reach out to me and we can see what unfolds.
Living with heart springs forth from the deep wells of our souls; from cultivating attention to our ordinary lives; from reclaiming the child in us before we were wounded; from remembering our sacred humanity and original blessing. When our hearts are alive, the flourishing of love emanates forth from our being, and we move from our truth.
Our world today is filled to the brim with incessant dopamine hits and thinned experiences found on social media, insidious isolation (even at social events), and the secrecy and hidden agendas beneath the surface of most things. This makes it difficult to live with an open heart. Many of our hearts were broken early on when we were very little. Perhaps this world hasn’t been the kindest to us.
And yet, this world longs to know your open, irreplaceable, beautiful heart. Deep down, you know this world is made of the stuff of magic! What stirs your soul at midnight? What are the dreams of your deepest truths? Who are you truly and what longs to be birthed and expressed through you? Why are you here within earth at this time, and what is your soul's calling?
One of the greatest tragedies in our human world is the loss of a fully lived life within one’s sacred heart truth!
Restoring our Sacred Hearts is a container for slowly tending to the opening of your heart once again, to learning to love again—yourself, your human brothers and sisters, our more-than-human kin, and this particular place we live in: Colorado Springs, Colorado. There is a kinship of soulful beauty emerging from the depths and heights of this place. Do you feel it?
Together, we will embark on a journey through the seven cardinal directions and learn how they interweave with the places we inhabit. We will open a portal for our hearts to find seeds of clarity and vision for who we are and what we are called to create in this world. This is a collective journey into a deep listening for what medicine, stories, knowledge, beauty, truth, song, and dream want to emerge in and through our collective emergence and your unique, never-before-seen, beating, breathing heart.
Inspiration
This course is inspired by my relationship with the otherworlds and three particular lineages I’ve chosen to devote my heart, soul, spirit, and body to:
The lineage of R.D. Laing, Andrew Feldmar, and Bruce Sanguin and the deep exploration of co-presence, interpersonal phenomenology, and the psychology of love each have contributed to the field of psychology.
The Christian Tradition, particularly its perennial mystical dimensions and the love and heart of St. Francis, Hildegard of Bingen, Mary Magdalene, The Cosmic Christ, Matthew Fox, John Phillip Newell, and St. Sophia.
The lineage of eco-psychology in the Western Mind and earth-based wisdom—-Bill Plotkin, The Animas Valley Institute, Mary Marsden, and my Indigenous European earth-based ancestors, particularly those of England, Germany, and Northern Ireland.