Budding Roots Therapy

BPD diagnosis often gets thrown around as a way to dismiss, rather than more deeply understand. It does not have to be this way -- trauma makes us time travelers. Understanding trauma means understanding the fullness of what trauma survivors are truly responding to.

TODAY - Last TTCW!

Tending The Creatures Within: TODAY! Somatic & Relational Workshop LAST TTCW is *today* at 2pm EST! If you haven't already, you can sign up here. This is a live, online gathering to discover creative, playful ways of tending to challenging feelings in ourselves and each other. Appropriate for all levels of experience with somatic (embodied) and relational therapy.....

Tending The Creatures Within - July 13th!

Workshops For Palestine The first "Tending the Creatures Within" is happening THIS SUNDAY, July 13th! Enjoy a gentle exploration of how to be with challenging feelings with creativity, compassion, and safe relational support. This workshop is accessible to those with no previous experience in somatic (embodied) or relation...

If you've been wanting to be more present with challenging feelings and are struggling to find a way, join me for this workshop where we can find *your* way together.

All proceeds go towards supporting a Palestinian family to flee from escalating dangers in the West Bank to safety.

*WORKSHOP INFO*

TIME: 2-4pm EST

DATES (choose one):
June 22 / July 13 / July 20 / Aug 03
^ these are all Sundays.

FEES:
Tiered $30 / $60 / $100

WORKSHOP LINK:
https://www.buddingrootstherapy.com/projects-6

DONATION LINK:
https://chuffed.org/project/134573-support-pab-teachers-and-families-to-flee-to-safety

Embodied and relational workshop at the Gestalt Institute on Monday Oct. 21st!

"Finding Our Ground" is for you if you're wanting to:

-- Connect with your authentic embodied experience
-- Explore where, when, and how you become "grounded" and "ungrounded"
-- Explore staying with your own needs and boundaries while also connecting with others
-- Find creative ways to connect with the support you are needing and yearning for

Please share with anyone who may benefit from this workshop!

Finding Our Ground | The Gestalt Institute of Toronto What do we mean when we say things like “being grounded” or “losing my ground”? In this workshop, we will explore our relationship with the ground: the literal Earth beneath us, and the symbolic “ground” that represents how supported or held we feel in any given moment. It can be especia...

Join us on Monday, October 21st for a somatic, relational, and creative exploration of embodied support!

We will be:

-- Connecting with our authentic embodied experience
-- Exploring where, when, and how we become "grounded" and "ungrounded"
-- Gently tuning in to our own needs and boundaries while also connecting with others
-- Discovering creative ways to connect with the support we are needing and yearning for

Sign up through the Gestalt Insitute: https://gestalt.on.ca/workshops/finding-our-ground/

Budding Roots Psychotherapy | mindful | Ontario, Canada Embodied (somatic), Mindful and Relational Gestalt therapy in Mono, Ontario by Hockley Valley National Park. Outdoor "forest" therapy seasonally available. Budding Roots Psychotherapy is an anti-Oppressive and q***r embracing practice.

Rather than trying to figure out how to "get rid of" our trauma responses by trying to have more Discipline, we can learn what underlying need we are trying to meet 💗

A couple shifts in perspective: from search and destroy to search and befriend and from what you want to stop to what you want to do instead. Increase your coping skills ans transform your nervous system wirth me, check the l!nk in b!o! #healingjourney #copingskills #nervoussystemregulation

Not only are you allowed, but hopefully supported and encouraged! Embodied forms of therapy can be especially helpful when speaking to your truth is hard, or you don't even know what you're feeling. As embodied or somatic practitioners we are trained to support you in re-connecting with the truth of your own experience, and then in finding your way of expressing these truths.
Which means you don't have to figure it out on your own.

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Today marks the first day of Mental Health Awareness Month. And while it’s important to recognize the strides we've made in normalizing conversations around mental health, we also must acknowledge how individualized the conversation has been. How such an emphasis on “self-care” can actually make us more isolated and alone, the focus heavily centered on the self, the individual. What’s lost here is the mutuality of relationships—the reciprocity, the way that you weave fabric between people who are relying on each other, the healing capacity of the collective. Feeling personally and communally supported and connected is a key component to feeling good. Intimacy and human interaction have a direct correlation to our mental health and longevity. Relational health must be a focal point of our mental health approach going forward. After all, the quality of relationships determines the quality of our lives.

There are a lot of horrors to be witnessing right now. If you take in a horrific image or information, try to give yourself a moment before moving on to the next thing. Take a breath. Look away from the screen.
Moving from horror to silly without a break is like whiplash to our system. I'm not saying, stay with only the horror. I'm just staying, take a moment. Acknowledge the impact. Maybe take a moment to consider how it is you DO want to respond, if you do want to respond. Then, decide to move on. Allow yourself to connect with pleasure, joy, humour, distraction, whatever! These are not bad things! But if we try and flit from horror to distraction, it can feel almost like we're trying to erase one with the other. And I believe that wreaks havoc on our nervous system, on our soul, and on our capacities for collective care.
Let's include our need for distraction and pleasure and connection along with our need to engage with the suffering that our own privileges are intertwined with. One CAN nourish the other. We just need to be more intentional about it...