Consenting to Receive Ourselves Just as We Are, a blog post by Asha Goldstein, LCSW, a Rogue Valley counselor, life coach, psychotherapist, facilitator, and licensed clinical social worker who offers deep counseling for motivated adults in Southern Oregon, including Ashland, Talent, Phoenix, Grants Pass, Jacksonville, and Medford, Oregon.
Are you drawn to the term “Shadow Work®,” but realize that you don’t really understand what it means or how it would be relevant to you?
I brought home a shelter dog, Tara, in early January. She has been blessing and challenging me in powerful ways since then.
Did you know that the human brain is programmed to recognize negative experiences far more than positive ones? Neuropsychologist Rick Hanson, PhD writes that a positive experience needs to be held in awareness for 5-20 seconds in order to register in our emotional memory while a negative experience registers instantly.