by Martha White, LMHC-NCC | May 28, 2020 | Newsletter
… our evolutionary ancestors would venture out and wonder: is it safe? We may feel it now, the equal pull of wanting two opposing things: to venture out and to remain. This sets up its own kind of tightrope, while our frightened child inside looks out and wants to...
by Martha White, LMHC-NCC | May 20, 2020 | Newsletter
A girl on a bike, feet off the pedals, picking up speed as she flies down the hill, the asphalt below singing like a choir. Hands-free, she trusts herself enough to just… let… go. She coasts. We forget how to coast. We feel anxious or insecure if we are not moving...
by Martha White, LMHC-NCC | May 14, 2020 | Newsletter
It is one of the first words we learn to speak in our language—we say NO before “yes”. The impulse to resist is strong, to put out our hand, palm outward: STOP! Toddlers overuse NO because it is so powerful. NO commands attention. Yet NO is more than a word– it...
by Martha White, LMHC-NCC | May 6, 2020 | Newsletter
Sunday is Mother’s Day. It is a day full of feeling—of remembering our mothers, our grandmothers, Aunties, Tutus, and all those who “loved us into being” (Rogers, Fred). I propose to honor another mother: Our Mother Earth. Images have flooded the internet of the clear...
by Martha White, LMHC-NCC | Apr 29, 2020 | Newsletter
It’s been 6 weeks since The Great Disruption wrenched us away from our (now former) lives; It may be another month or so before we can begin to venture out. Many of us feel deeply uncertain about what is to come. What kind of mental activity helps us feel safer?...
by Martha White, LMHC-NCC | Apr 22, 2020 | Newsletter
Like an earthquake it is heaving our social and emotional rift zones, revealing fault lines within. The demands of life shifted without warning: we must become highly adaptable while facing an invisible, unknowable threat. We feel this disruption internally. It can...
