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Esther Goldstein LCSW Interviews Yolanda Harper About Soul Sabbatical Book
Yolanda Harper LCSW recently sat down with Esther Goldstein LCSW to discuss her book Soul Sabbatical: A Journey to Revive the Heart. This a great interview that gives a lot of information about the book.
The Power of Eye Movements TEDx Talk By Yolanda Harper
In 2017 Yolanda gave a TEDx Talk about the power of eye movements and its ability help heal trauma. It is a powerful presentation on how Accelerated Resolution Therapy and bi-lateral stimulation are great tools used by therapists to help people resolve trauma in their lives.
How Do You Find A Sound Bath, Sound Healing, Sound Meditation Session in Tampa?
The Tampa and Lutz, Florida area needs more options for people to find the kind of care that they deserve. Sound healing and sound bathing can really help us manage the constant strain and bombardment of stimuli that we all struggle with each and every day.
Moving Beyond the Holiday Blues
As the holidays come to an end and the excitement of the season begins to wear off, sometimes there is an unsettling feeling that begins to occur. The first week of January can feel jarring.
Holidays Can Make Us Feel Spiritually Imbalanced
The theme for this month has been the impact that the holiday season has on the mind, body, and spirit. This week we are focusing on spirit and how the holiday season can cause an unsettling feeling for some.
The Holidays Can Be Really Stressful
The mind, body, and spirit connection can negatively be impacted by the holidays. As previously mentioned, our thoughts can turn negative due to many reasons during the holidays. Besides our mind, our body can also experience negative impacts.
The Impact of the Holidays on the Mind, Body, and Spirit
There is a connection between the mind, body, and spirit, and when one becomes imbalanced the other two can easily get off track. The holidays tend to be a catalyst for bringing out the best and the worst of us.
Permission to Dream
For most of us, the waters we swim in choke out our capacity to dream. While we do fine with identifying big life goals – where to go to school, our desired profession, how to climb the ladder
of success, even goals to partner and have children (or not) are not hard to put on our to-do list. We often just take the next step that’s expected of us. But along the way, we lose our capacity to check in with our heart’s desires and ask the question, “What do you want,
Darling?” and to reach deeply with the response of “what if...?”
FOOBS Fighting
At Harper Therapy, we use the acronym FOOBS – family of origin bullshit. It’s our colloquial term for another acronym, ACES – Adverse Childhood Experiences, which is a long-standing study about the effects of childhood trauma like physical and sexual abuse, emotional and physical neglect, parental substance abuse, mental health problems, divorce/separation, and incarceration, among other markers.
The Great Resignation
A very interesting phenomenon was happening around the time that I was exploring taking a sabbatical. It was the Great Resignation. Remember that? Thousands and thousands of people left their jobs for many different reasons. I was so intrigued by what would inspire people to leave the security of a job, so I learned more about those reasons and then explored some of my own. Not so that I could resign from my job, but so I could resign from the things in my life that keep me half-living. These are some of the things that are at the root of our burn out.
Top Three Truths About Sound Baths
Sound baths have gained popularity as a form of sound therapy and relaxation. Here are three key truths about sound baths
What Do You Do When Your Life Isn’t Working?
What do you do when your life isn’t working? This is the question I asked during a moment of stark realization that, in spite of the hours I had spent meditating, doing yoga, journaling, taking staycations, and countless other “self care” activities, I was still burned out, overwhelmed, and exhausted.