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May 11
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Gustav Klimt, Mother and Child

A Mother’s Day Blessing for All Kinds of Mamas

By Stephanie Musings
A Mama Day Blessing for All Kinds of Mamas Gustav Klimt, Mother and Child I appreciate this poem. I also recognise it is not very inclusive of non-binary or trans...
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May 10
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Circling around: 20 years on, my journey with acupressure and psychotherapy

By Stephanie Musings
This month I officially start to include acupressure as part of my therapeutic practice as a Registered Psychotherapist. Here's the back story. 20 years ago I was a 20-something not-for-profit...
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Feb 21
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Stepping stones

Become an apprentice to sorrow: Tara Brach’s guided meditation on grief

By Stephanie Musings, Tools and activities

My own grief process lately has led be to re-find Tara Brach’s teachings and her sweet, kind wisdom. In this video she refers to becoming an apprentice to sorrow, deepening…

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Feb 03
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Attending to our unfolding vs finding solutions

By Stephanie Musings

We live in a society that peddles solutions, whether it’s solutions to those extra pounds you’re carrying, or to your thinning hair, or to your loss of appetite, loss of…

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Jun 20
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Celebrate diversity: on being a good ally

By Stephanie Musings

During pride month let’s celebrate diversity! Let’s be curious, open and supportive to those identifying as LGBTQ+. Let’s stand up to prejudice and discrimination! “Pride is unconditional love, the belief…

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Jun 26
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Happy Pride! LGBTQ+ resources in Hamilton

By Stephanie Musings

Happy Pride month! Let’s celebrate the diversity that is among us here in Hamilton and all over this beautiful earth. Let’s celebrate harder as some people, past and present aren’t…

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Jun 08
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Towards justice, peace and reconciliation

By Stephanie Musings, Tools and activities

While this was the beginning of Indigenous History month as well as Pride month, this year, we mark the occasion filled with sadness and outrage at the news from Kamloops…

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Oct 28
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Beyond candy: find the juice this Halloween

By Stephanie Creativity and the Arts, Musings

Has Hallowe’en has become a bit stale? Typically a bit too full of plastic jack o’lanterns and skulls, over-produced costumes and absurd amounts of candy? For me, yes to both.  This Covid…

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Oct 10
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Climate change anxiety and what to do about it

By Stephanie Musings

In the last year I’ve had my first few client presenting with what boils down at least in significant part, to climate change anxiety. Clients have been presenting with panic,…

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Apr 26
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Art by Lorenzo Bosi

2 kinds of loneliness: why we feel alone in a crowd

By Stephanie Musings

Guest post by Lisa Voth, Somatic Therapist in Vancouver.    I have a theory that there are 2 kinds of loneliness. I know this is false because any kind of binary…

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