Author Archive | Meira Shupack

It can be unnerving to see this picture of your organs but this is actually a picture of our whole brain /body where we experience things. Have you ever noticed your shoulders getting tense or your stomach having a knot? When I talk about somatic psychotherapy, I really am just talking about noticing and working […]

The fact is, I can think of no reason I have not put Brene Brown here on my page yet, I have used her videos to show clients how normal shame is, how tender and beautiful and hard vulnerability is. I have mostly used them to sooth myself, when I fall the victim to what […]

Alder Grove Healing Arts Center What’s in a name, and why this move… I am so excited to announce my joining Alder Grove Healing Arts Center. I have loved being in private practice but I have always sought out community in this work. I am taking a great jump and moving into a formal group […]

This work has been amazing. I have the most uniquely beautiful, most profound clients. We therapists are so lucky to accompany people on this journey towards themselves, to get changed ourselves by their growth.  That is the truth for me, that I am nourished, as well as stretched. I feel so grateful to walk the […]

Jill Bolte Taylor brain scientist and stroke survivor describes her stroke of her left side, she gets a very inside look at what it is our right brain does. Jill Bolte Taylor (/ˈbɒlti/; born May 4, 1959) is an American neuroanatomist, author, and inspirational public speaker. Her personal experience with a massive stroke, experienced in […]

In this TED talk , by Aimee Mullins, she questions what the definition of disability does to us, as individuals, and society, looking through the lens of her own life. “Over coming adversity,” she says is something she is always asked to talk about, but she says it never felt right. She suggests that it’s […]

The pressure we sometimes feel — from others or ourselves — to be or to act in a certain way can in itself make us unhappy or anxious. The cartoon * does a good job of illustrating something that many of us experience at some point or another in our lives.  The man in the […]

Play as healing- thoughts? This issue has come up in a recent training, and in some of my recent social networking, so I thought in might be a nice first blog post. Look at this video of polar bears playing with dogs, natural predators, but when they are playing they seem to have intimacy, fun, […]