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How to Be Steady in an Unsteady World? FIND YOUR CENTER!
According to Open Floor International, signs finding your center might be a growth edge for you might include:
• Feeling clumsy, unstable
• Getting easily overwhelmed, doubts self
• Confused, lacks focus, short attention span
• Feels hollow, lacks meaning or purpose
• Needy and not accountable in relationships
Come play with finding your center at Open Floor Dance 101 & Moving Meditation on Sunday, November 6th, 2022!
Do You Get “SAD” in the Winter? 9 WAYS to WARD OFF Seasonal Affective Disorder
It’s that time of year in the Midwest, when it gets cooler and daylight is limited, and we know winter is coming. Many people notice a drop in mood, less interest in social activities, sleeping more, weight gain, and lower energy during the winter. Some people’s symptoms rise to the level of meeting the clinical criteria for seasonal affective disorder (SAD) which is a depressive disorder. Research supports that the reduction in light exposure affects the neurotransmitter function of the tryptophan-serotonin-melatonin pathways leading to SAD symptoms.
Coriander Living Collective Now Offering Clinical Supervision!
Cori Hildebrandt, MA, LPC WI, LPCC MN is excited to join the field as a clinical supervisor who can supervise LPC and LPCC applicants in MN. She also is qualified to provide supervision in WI. She respectfully accepts the honor and responsibility of contributing to the health and safety of clinical practice and shepherding in the next generation of therapists.
If you are interested in clinical supervision, please contact Coriander Living Collective to discuss the possibility.
ABUNDANT YOGA COMMUNITY
I am honored to announce that I have been elected to serve as a Board Member-at-Large for the yoga non-profit, Abundant Yoga Community (AYC)! AYC was founded in 2019 by Tracey Mortenson, the owner of Inspiring Actions Yoga to create accessibility for all to yoga. Its mission is “Yoga is for everyone. Yoga changes lives. Community is everything. We help yoga teacher, health workers, school, and yoga studios bring yoga to those in need.”
What Are You Doing with Your One Life?
I was at the Adler Academy of Minnesota’s Annual Conference last week on grief and we wrote a Haiku during the training which we then shared in a small group. It made me remember how powerful poetry can be.
What are you doing with your one life? Is it working? Or maybe not so much?! Coriander Living Collective is here to support you in creating a life well lived.
BEYOND TALK THERAPY: You Don’t Have to Talk About “It” to Heal “It!” + Welcome to Open Floor 101!
Coriander Living Collective offers three types of intervention that are able to access the lower brainstem, middle emotional brain, and body to metabolize stress and trauma responses: 1) Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), 2) Brainspotting, and 3) Open Floor resource based-mindful movement classes and workshops.
This Fall, I have two OPEN FLOOR DANCE/MOVING MEDITATION Series scheduled. These are beginner courses for those new to mindful movement and dance. Look, come move, heal, and claim wholeness!
Brainspotting + Learn Self-Spotting
BRAINSPOTTING is a promising therapy for most types of symptoms such as sleep disturbance, low mood, anxiety, irritability, negative beliefs, interpersonal issues, trauma and stress responses, and chronic pain. Come learn about BRAINSPOTTING and how to SELF-SPOT for regulation.
Our ANS + Benefits of Spending Time in Nature
One way to intervene and support our Autonomic Nervous System is through spending time in nature. Time in nature reduces stress, improves well-being, and moves us into a ventral vagal state where we can connect with others. Come engage with nature at Two Bees and a Bud Flower Farm on Saturday, 9/17/22 from 11-1pm. We would love to see you out!
Happy 2nd Anniversary Coriander Living Collective!
It is with a grateful and happy heart that I announce Coriander Living Collective’s 2nd Anniversary! This business that I’ve built with the support of many, and the trust of even more people, has afforded me a meaningful vocation, and the freedom and lifestyle flexibility that my soul craved for so many years!
Trauma and Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy
EMDR is an information processing therapeutic approach that allows the whole person to reprocess disturbing experiences shifting them into adaptative outcomes. EMDR treats most types of symptoms such as anxiety, grief, and PTSD. If you are seeking treatment beyond talk therapy, results, and true healing EMDR may be for you. Please contact, Certified EMDR Therapist, Cori Hildebrandt for a free consultation.
Practice the PAUSE, Take in Nature, and Support Your Nervous System!
Many of us spend our days rushing from one task to the next, not aware of what’s happening in our bodies. We function on autopilot. That is taxing on our nervous systems. Here’s a technique that can be done in literally a few seconds: THE PAUSE!
BIBLIOTHERAPY: Love Worth Making: How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Long-Lasting Relationship by Stephen Snyder, M.D.
As humans, we are sexual beings. Our sexual development, sexual health, sexual expression, and sexual satisfaction contribute to our overall well-being. And yet often, for different reasons, many struggle around sexuality.
Dr. Stephen Snyder is a sex therapist in Manhattan. His book, Love Worth Making: How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Long-Lasting Relationship includes three parts: Your Sexual Self, Women and Men, and Sex for Life. Dr. Snyder writes with a no-nonsense, direct approach that offers practical actions to better sex in a long-lasting relationship.
Our 4 Relational Hungers
As human beings, we are relational beings. Relationships are intertwined with our survival. Relationships meet our needs for belonging, security, and significance. We’re in relationship not just with people, but with ourselves, nature, spirit, ancestry, creativity, and ideas.
The mindful movement and conscious dance practice of Open Floor International identifies Four Relational Hungers.
• SOLITUDE: left alone, self, turn inward
• CONNECTION: excited/nourished by partner, intimacy
• BELONGING: part of group, union, welcomed
• SPIRIT: part of flow, be held by something beyond
FOOD! How to Be Less Overwhelmed by Feeding Yourself and Others!
Like most things, being intentional creates change and benefit. If you are serious about feeling better. Get serious about caring for your basic needs and providing your body the nutrition it needs! Need support? Coriander Living is here for you. Let’s talk food!
The 4 Dimensions of Embodiment
The mindful movement and conscious dance practice of Open Floor International is an embodiment practice. Embodiment is about inhabiting our full selves. Being at home in our bodies. Our ability to connect with what it means to be human and to be moving through life.
Open Floor teaches and identifies 4 Dimensions of Embodiment: physical, emotional, mind, and soul.
Announcing 988 for Suicide, Mental Health, & Substance Use Crisis Situations! (Call/Text/Chat 988)
Starting July 16, 2022 anyone in the United States can call, text, or chat 988 which is hosted by The National Suicide Prevention & Lifeline. This new national service is called the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Any person experiencing a crisis, or someone concerned for someone in crisis can use this service. Staff answering calls are trained to listen, support, de-escalate, encourage coping skills, and resource connect.
Coriander Living Collective is proud to spread the word on this new 988 service!
The Open Floor Movement Cycle
One of the anchors of Open Floor practice is the Movement Cycle which includes:
1. Open Attention: We open both our inner and outer awareness, arrive for practice, and welcome whatever is noticed.
2. Enter with an Embodied Anchor: We enter our bodies and sensation.
3. Explore: Here we deepen and broaden our awareness, expand, and experiment with guided and self-directed inquiries.
4. Settle: And to end, we slow down, integrate, and allow our nervous systems to encode new pathways.
Human Connection Heals
Human connection and a sense of belonging are vital to our well-being. Connection creates resilience. Connection heals. If you are struggling with connection or lack of belonging, Coriander Living Collective is here to support you in getting connected via psychotherapy and workshops and retreats. Just reach out!
GROUND/GROUNDING/GROUNDED
Without ground where do you stand? Come connect to what’s below you and in you, build safety, and sense support. Practice GROUNDING through meditation and movement with Open Floor! Two opportunities coming up this summer:
• Open Floor 101 3-Part Series starting Thursday, June 30th, 2022 at 9:30am at Inspiring Actions in River Falls, WI!
• Open Floor Moving Meditation & Wine Spritzer Social at Forestville Vines Winery, Sunday, August 14th, 2022!
BIBLIOTHERAPY: What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, and Oprah Winfrey
When Oprah writes a book about trauma, you know trauma awareness has hit the mainstream! In What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing, Dr. Perry and Oprah write about the paradigm shift from the question of “What’s wrong with you? to “What happened to you?” They discuss the developmental impact of trauma on the brain, pointing to how formative the first year of life is. They converse on regulation and rhythm, balance, connectedness, transgenerational transmission of trauma, and ways to move towards healing. This book serves as an introduction to trauma, or a review for the trauma specialist.