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What is BRAINSPOTTING?
BRAINSPOTTING is a body-brain based relational therapy that uses where you look to access stored material in your subcortical brain. Accessing this stored material allows your own natural process to unfold, metabolizing and moving you towards a regulated, state of homeostasis.
BEYOND TALK THERAPY: You Don’t Have to Talk About “It” to Heal “It!”
Talk therapy absolutely can be beneficial and uses our higher thinking brains. Yet as some point, talk therapy is limited because it is not able to access the lower parts of the brain where we hold stress and trauma responses. Talk therapy alone is often not enough to heal human issues.
In my practice, I offer three types of intervention that are able to access the lower brainstem and middle emotional brain to metabolize stressor and trauma responses: 1) Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), 2) Brainspotting, and 3) free-form dance movement.
Bibliotherapy: BIG MAGIC: Creative Living Without Fear
Do you have the courage to move beyond fear and create a meaningful life? How does one allow fear and creativity to co-exist? Is creativity gifted from the divine? Creativity can help us navigate life and overcome our struggles.
The Wisdom of Grief and Sadness + Easy Ways to Manage Them!
Sadness lets us know we have lost something or someone important to us, or that we need help, and no one is there. Grief is the process of integrating loss. Emotions are energy in the body therefore they are always moving and shifting. As best as you can, allow and honor your emotions. Here are several easy strategies for dealing with sadness and grief.
HOW COME WE HAVE EMOTIONS?
As humans, one of our great life challenges is learning how to listen to the wisdom of our emotions, how to tolerate and build our capacity to feel our emotions, and how to allow them to metabolize and move through us. Therapy is a safe space to experience, explore, and practice processing emotions. Coriander Living Collective is here to support you and your emotions. Reach out!
7 Ways to Resource and Regulate During Chaotic Times
Sometimes life can feel relentless. We look around and hurt and tragedy keep coming at us. Whether it’s personal or collective upheaval, life can be overwhelming, exhausting, and demoralizing at times. YET, we always have the ability to access and resource within our bodies. Here are 7 Ways to Resource and Regulate During Chaotic Times.
WHAT Is Going on America? Small Ways We Can All Work to Prevent Violence
I am sick of hearing about mass shootings. I am sick of hearing about black and brown folks being brutalized and killed. I am sick of the media response. I am sick that most of us, do not accept any responsibility in ensuring the happiness and security of not only our family and our friends, but also our community and humanity at large.
9 Physical and Mental Health Benefits of Meditative, Free-Form Dance Movement
There are many different styles, philosophies, and names for dance movement practices around the globe (i.e. Ecstatic Dance, Authentic Movement, etc.). We all know exercise and meditation offer multiple health benefits. Essentially meditative, free-form dance movement practices are (cardio workouts + meditation + connecting to self/others/spirit = SO MANY WELLNESS BENEFITS)!
14 Communication Strategies to Use When Having Hard Conversations!
Here are fourteen strategies to support you in leaning into hard conversations and communicating in a way to get the best outcome. PLUS, a bonus video of how this is done!
Part of Living and Loving is Losing and Grieving
It is not always easy to welcome the passing of time because there are things that are so precious, so sweet, that we want to hold onto them forever…Loss, sickness, death, and dying have been swirling around my life and the lives of my family, friends, and clients lately. I notice a sadness that is resting on the top of heart. The awareness that the love is what creates the ache.
How to Be Steady in an Unsteady World
Life is constantly happening in and around us. Certain things we welcome wholeheartedly and other things we resist. One of the great skills of life is learning how to remain steady in an unsteady world. I believe our three greatest resources in this pursuit are 1) body-based movement, 2) nature, and 3) community.
In partnership with Inspiring Actions in River Falls, I’ll be facilitating the workshop How to Be Steady in an Unsteady World on Sunday, April 11th, 2021.
“Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home”
What does it mean to belong? How do we feel when we find a sense of belonging? We all know the pain of not belonging. Belonging is such a core human need. Yet, many of us struggle to experience belonging.
As The World Opens Back Up REMEMBER THIS ONE THING!
As the world opens back up and activities and places become accessible remember to be GENTLE with yourself and others. Being around people and socializing are skills and without consistent use they can become rusty.
We are Human Machines! Lifestyle Series Part III: FOOD
If you are not feeling well, access your nutritional input. How could you improve it? Do you need to educate yourself on nutrition? Do you need to seek the counsel of an expert? Should you purchase a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) membership?
Be Like a Jellyfish: Trauma and Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
Watch this video presentation, Cori Hildebrandt, MA, LPC WI, LPCC MN, owner of Coriander Living Collective speaking on trauma and EMDR therapy.
Bibliotherapy: Untamed by Glennon Doyle
I often say, “Everything there is to know, it can be found in a book.” Glennon Doyle’s, Untamed offered golden nuggets of wisdom that were delivered like punches to the gut! If you’re a woman or a mother, this book is for you. Doyle encourages us and calls us to action: “Here’s to the Untamed: May we know them. May we raise them. May we love them. May we read them. May we elect them. May we be them.”
Craving Support and Connection? 3 Ways to Get Those Needs Met ASAP!
As human beings, we’re social beings. If it wasn’t for being interdependent, we would not survive infancy. We need other people to thrive. Due to different technological advances, cultural shifts, and the pandemic, many people are finding themselves disconnected, lonely, and craving support.
Coriander Living Collective has 3 OFFERINGS TO HELP GET YOUR SUPPORT AND CONNECTION NEEDS MET.
The Benefits of Novelty and My Get Out and Try- St. Croix Valley Podcast Debut!
A few weeks back, I was invited to join a conversation with Katie Axel, founder of Get Out and Try- St. Croix Valley, on her podcast. We talked about Coriander Living Collective, psychotherapy, EMDR, and the benefits of novelty seeking for humans.
Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World by Pema Chödrön
What we put out into the world is a direct reflection of how we feel about ourselves. I have no doubt that the quickest way to heal our world, is for each of us to work on healing ourselves.
In Welcoming the Unwelcome Pema Chödrön shares practical ways to use Buddhist philosophy to greet polarization, failure, ego, and discomfort. She encourages radical acceptance, being in the here-and-now, compassion, and honoring the humanity in each of us as a way to build healthy culture.
Invest in Yourself: Are You Receiving the Highest Quality of Care?
Coriander Living Collective is designed as a private pay for services business accepting credit, debit, HSA, or FLEX funds. We believe as a provider this offers you the highest level of care. For you as the client, this affords you certain advantages over using health insurance or a third party payer: greater privacy, no mental health diagnosis, and complete control over treatment.