Kristin Leonheart, M.S., LMFT - Life Healing Itself

10/27/2021

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I will always want myself. Always. Darling, I wrote myself a love poem two nights ago. I don’t know where you get this from, but I am whole, a woman who grows flowers between her teeth. I tend to my garden. I dance myself out of pain. You think women like me crawl for pity? You ever seen the offspring of a lion eat grass? This wanting of myself gets stronger with age. I host myself to myself.

I am whole.

08/18/2021

Thank goodness these ideas are becoming more mainstream! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I will just say I’m not opposed to psychotropic medication - it’s hardly a solution, but in this sociocultural environment, whatever helps us get through helps us get through, even if it is just placebo. Until we massively change the context, medication is one of our survival tools.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisonescalante/2020/08/11/researchers-doubt-that-certain-mental-disorders-are-disorders-at-all/?fbclid=IwAR0RlD6eg4TaUOSZzf_EUOSLHOfLvjgyfLWZw6kRBobqHPl8BEK05x9qGks

What if mental disorders like anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder aren’t mental disorders at all?

07/03/2021

Can I hear a “hell yes?” 👏🏻🙌🏻👌🏻

07/02/2021

Be gooey 💚🌱🐛

05/27/2021

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05/21/2021

This is wisdom 👌🏻

Trust gravity. Trust your body. Trust the intelligence of your design.

There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one. That is spirituality.

~ Ellen Bass

image: Margot Leandro

04/23/2021

“Maslow’s idea emerged and was informed by his work with the Blackfeet Nation through conversations with elders and inspiration from the shape and meaning of the Blackfoot tipi. Maslow’s idea has been criticized for misrepresenting the Blackfoot worldview, which instead places self-actualization as a basis for community-actualization and community-actualization as a basis for cultural perpetuity, the latter of which exists at the top of the tipi in Blackfoot philosophy.”

What an incredibly classic white person/white cultural fail! Glad we’re hearing the full story now and credit can be given where it’s due. Glad white people are examining our cultural assumptions and slowly beginning to shift away from what’s not serving our global community.

It turns out that Abraham Maslow took the Hierarchy of Needs from the Blackfeet Nation. Only, he got it completely backward.

04/22/2021

I recently completed a major overhaul of my website!

It now offers much more detail about the work I offer. Waking people up is what it’s all about for me. Navigating the particular challenges modern Western egos face in waking up is what’s most exciting for me. This process is completely ridiculous and still, I can’t imagine choosing any other path.

Note that my website address has changed with my name. It looks prettier on a desktop, but the information is the same no matter how you view it. I describe my specialties in much more detail under the various sub-pages listed under “Offerings.” I’m particularly pleased with what came out on my “Awakening with Trauma” page.

Feel free to pass this along to anyone you know who might be interested in my work! ✨🙏🏻☺️

Psychotherapy, Couples Therapy

04/02/2021

"Trauma in a person, decontextualized over time, looks like personality.

Trauma in a family, decontextualized over time, looks like family traits.

Trauma in a people, decontextualized over time, looks like culture."

—Resmaa Menakem

11/14/2020

Don’t be afraid of the dark 🖤🌑🌌

The Spiral of Life

"Shadow, like conflict, is a driver of evolution. It eventually pushes us to advance in complexity and clarity. The disassociated, contracted energy we hold in the dark lake seeks integration. Dark chi longs to return to the light of consciousness, fulfilling its course along the great spiral of life."

Learn more about "Healing Collective Trauma," the new book by Thomas Hübl, which will be published on November 17!

https://www.collectivetraumabook.com

09/21/2020

“Remember you are not the only one hurting, afraid, and feeling lonely.” 🤍