Ayira Heart Counselling

11/04/2017

Love is not a dream it's a reality and is a powerful force in business as well as relationships. Martin Luther King Jr said it best.

Love is not just a Fairy Tale. When applied to every aspect of our lives will make us successful and happy!

02/10/2017

I am so happy to share this beautiful community mindful eating experience. It is satisfying on so many levels. Hope to see you there.

Please bring your version of a healthy potluck dish (or just your appetite). If you wish, you may also something beautiful to help decorate the table.
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Don't forget to bring a friend or two, and RSVP here!

10/04/2016

YOU CAN RETURN TO YOUR INNOCENCE
The work begins with a trust that your body wants to be in balance and is communicating perfectly all of the time.

http://ayiraheartcounselling.com/self-help/awareness-body-integration-therapy

Parents on the Drive

Coping with chronic stress and pain can make you feel overwhelmed. Counselling helps you learn to use the power of your own body to let go of anxiety and depression, and overcome trauma.

07/23/2016

To truly see and be seen by another is friendship and maybe the only true desire in our hearts. I have been meditating on forgiveness this week and was happy to receive this rich description of friendship by David Whyte.

The Food Connection Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network

FRIENDSHIP

is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness. Friendship not only helps us to see ourselves through another’s eyes, but can be sustained over the years only with someone who has repeatedly forgiven us for our trespasses as we must find it in ourselves to forgive them in turn.

A friend knows our difficulties and shadows and remains in sight, a companion to our vulnerabilities more than our triumphs, when we are under the strange illusion we do not need them. An undercurrent of real friendship is a blessing exactly because its elemental form is rediscovered again and again through understanding and mercy. All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness. Without tolerance and mercy all friendships die.

In the course of the years a close friendship will always reveal the shadow in the other as much as ourselves, to remain friends we must know the other and their difficulties and even their sins and encourage the best in them, not through critique but through addressing the better part of them, the leading creative edge of their incarnation, thus subtly discouraging what makes them smaller, less generous, less of themselves.

Friendship is the great hidden transmuter of all relationship: it can transform a troubled marriage, make honorable a professional rivalry, make sense of heartbreak and unrequited love and become the newly discovered ground for a mature parent-child relationship.

The dynamic of friendship is almost always underestimated as a constant force in human life: a diminishing circle of friends is the first terrible diagnostic of a life in deep trouble: of overwork, of too much emphasis on a professional identity of forgetting who will be there when our armored personalities run into the inevitable natural disasters and vulnerabilities found in even the most ordinary existence…

Friendship transcends disappearance: an enduring friendship goes on after death, the exchange only transmuted by absence, the relationship advancing and maturing in a silent internal conversational way even after one half of the bond has passed on.

But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the self nor of the other, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.
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From ‘FRIENDSHIP’ in
CONSOLATIONS: The Solace, Nourishment
and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words.
© David Whyte & Many Rivers Press

Talking
Photo © David Whyte
The River Cong Co Mayo
Ireland June 23rd 2016

07/09/2016

Is the anxiety of life affecting you? It's no wonder we're so full of anxiety in this world. Everyone's anxiety affects our own, so we're all affecting each other.

This is an offering of some support to manage your anxiety.

Beyond Maybe | Borstal BC | The Food Connection

Anxiety is everywhere in our lives. Learn to use your senses to get out of anxiety and panic attacks.

07/01/2016

Bringing healing from the therapist's couch and into people's lives... one Yelp at a time.

Ayira is a talented counsellor who is equally compassionate and professional. Her office is welcoming and comfortable, in a convenient location.

In our sessions together...

05/03/2016

I highly recommend going to this event by the BC Borstal Association. They are leading us into a world where we understand how trauma affects us all. They are taking action with bringing awareness on the effects of trauma and how we can heal from it. They believe in supporting families and communities to heal. I hope to see you all at the PTSD Awareness Day!

10/26/2015

What do I believe?

I believe that we can do anything we want to do. I don't think that anything in this world will change until we change ourselves, until we let go of our fear and pain and open up to our hearts. I don't think that we would ever do what we do if we were connected to our hearts. We would be able to let our amazing creative selves transform this world. I don't think we can do this alone. No one man or woman or child can make this world the world we long for. We need each other and that is a very scary concept for most of us.

01/22/2015

Everyone is Worthy!

The pain is excruciating as we walk around going about our everyday lives holding and constricting around our basic sense of unworthiness. You may look around as you ride the bus or walk by folks on the street getting to their next appointment and notice how we keep going. Our faces are sheltering the truth underneath. My experience is that when I can really feel safe and am in a place where I’m given permission, I just let myself go and it sometimes isn’t pretty. We live in a world where nothing is good enough. We are told that we have to be anything other than ourselves…look better, act better, achieve better. God, it’s so much work to turn away from ourselves to be accepted and loved. It’s so hard.

We are all worthy, every one of us wherever we are and however we are. Acceptance and deep love is extremely healing. Try to spend a short period of time every day practicing compassion and love for yourself. See if you can find a moment in private to just feel anything that comes up for you without using your fantastic minds to stop the process. Just lay down and let your emotions wash over you just as pure emotions. You get to have your feelings, they are yours, try not to judge them as unworthy. Your body knows exactly what to do…try to trust your body to do what it needs to do so that you can be free of all that energy it takes to be “worthy”, to be perfect! You are already perfect just the way you are, a beautiful soul.

07/22/2014

Drown the thought in love"—that's beautiful.
from an interview with Irena Tweedie.

This is key for me. I remember in a "Journey of Transformation" that this is exactly what happened. I seemed to be filled with love letting the pain go. The love filled me as the pain left.

07/15/2014

Breathing in, I hold the stone of my fear; breathing out, it pulses with love and becomes a heart.

Breathing in the pure light of the sun, I awaken a warmth in my chest; breathing out, I know that I am human.

This is an excerpt from one of Linda L. Nardelli, Channeled Healer's poems. I love these words.

05/09/2014

I am very very excited about what my friend and colleague Danzante Caldera is doing. He has created this masterpiece! It's a game called POSITIVITIES and it is going to become very popular because it is inspired. The game was created from Danzante's connection to supporting individuals to connect to their strengths. I have personally played this game with a few of my friends and some people I don't know and learned a lot about myself and my friends and quickly got to know people I hadn't met before. He's created this campaign to raise money for the marketing. Check it out...it's definitely worth contributing to. Just check it out there's a great video. I'm in the video too.
http://tinyurl.com/positivities

This campaign is about raising funds in order to launch POSITIVITIES, a new game that is all about heartfelt conversation and embracing our strength...