The nature of my work has shifted with the evolutions of my spirit. The original focus of my career was in forensic psychology, focusing on the criminal mind in an effort to understand the very broken: a reflection of my own psyche. My focus shifted to the psychology of addiction in an effort to understand the very empty: again, a reflection of my own psyche.
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And then, when the light came on in side, I made a final shift in practice to the shoring up of women in an effort to understand the very strong: a reflection of my heart. As I sat across from my own people, I learned about the heart of a woman. And I fell in love.
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Women exist in duality. We walk the border of life and death, the spiritual and the physical, the light and the dark in all circumstances. And, despite influences of conventional medicine, we do not require fixing. We seek psychiatry to quell the rawness of our emotions, and we have failed to interpret those sensations as the neurological strength of our intuition. We look to masculine leaders to give us an action plan, tearing us from our complexity and our innate powers. We go to doctors to strip us of our cycles, when it is our own month-to-month transitions that propel us toward constant evolution.
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Woman is a dialectic.
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A dialectic, by definition, is the state of two seemingly opposing forces co-existing in harmony. A fearsome thing that can dance freely in the median, in the juxtaposition. She revels in contradiction, because it is in her very cells. And it is the joy of my heart to guide women toward the reality of their spirits, to call forward their unique identities, to make peace with the ways they have been misunderstood, and to greet the wild one within.
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There are many psychologists and therapists who are simply healers by the book. They have done the study, gotten the degrees, earned the licensure, and they are effective in their own regard. And then, there are healers by the heart, who have been initiated by facing their own darkness within, traversed the descent, and learned of the ancient ways. And what a gift to be both a healer by the book and a healer of the heart: a woman first and a psychologist second.
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The Beautiful Ones who sit across from me, as my sisters and my clients, will be loving guided by the knowledge in my head and the love in my heart.