Galia Collaborative

Galia Collaborative Galia Collaborative supports women and girls to deeply know and grow their power through psychotherapy, coaching, and leadership development.
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02/03/2026

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Today we’re celebrating Sarah Lavanier’s five-year Galiaversary, and we couldn’t be more grateful for her presence in th...
02/01/2026

Today we’re celebrating Sarah Lavanier’s five-year Galiaversary, and we couldn’t be more grateful for her presence in this community. 💛

Sarah brings creativity, energy, and a flow of new ideas and ways of thinking that help Galia stay alive, evolving, and hopeful. She has a gift for focusing on the positive and helping others see situations in a way that highlights the best possibilities. Her warmth is contagious — and her laugh can brighten the room. 🕶️

She is a thoughtful, caring clinician and a colleague everyone loves working alongside: encouraging and genuinely invested in the people around her. Beyond Galia, Sarah shows up with the same heart as a devoted mom, a loving friend, and an engaged community member.

Five years of commitment, shared values, and a lot of meaningful moments along the way. Sarah, thank you for all the ways you help make Galia what it is. We’re so glad you’re here — and we can’t wait to see what you dream up next. ✨

On Sunday we'll be hosting a very special gathering to support ourselves in finding our own internal warmth and comfort,...
01/31/2026

On Sunday we'll be hosting a very special gathering to support ourselves in finding our own internal warmth and comfort, even in the coldest and darkest of days.

It's a few hours in the afternoon to learn intentional practices for surviving what feels hard and maybe like it will go on forever.

There are just a couple spots left for this experience, and if you feel pulled in any way, we hope you'll join us ✨

I hope you read this caption. This feels important. Imagine that you are someone who is always running late. You've work...
01/27/2026

I hope you read this caption. This feels important.

Imagine that you are someone who is always running late. You've worked at it, but you can never seem to get it together to be on time. One day someone is really late for you, and it spurs something in you. You're going to try out some new practices tomorrow to see if you can show up to your coffee date with a friend on time. And it works! You show up a few minutes early, even, and she's there's to greet you. But instead of being met with a hug, she looks at you snidely and says, "Well, well, well... look who finally figured out how to set an alarm?"

Our friend is clearly annoyed or hurt from enough experiences of waiting for you. Her agitation is valid.

But her comments are very unlikely to make you prioritize being on time again. In fact, you might not schedule coffee dates at all.

Humans don't respond to shame. We just don't.

We shut down. We contract. We hide.

We certainly don't do more of the brave and hard things.

And whether we think it should be a matter of bravery or strength to put the dishes away or plan a date night or change our political leanings — well, that's somewhat irrelevant if we want more of it.

My advice whether it's in couples therapy or parenting a teen or responding a high school friend who is finally recognizing how problematic things are is to... thank them. Eek, I know, I know. It means swallowing our pride. It means working out those feelings of hurt and harm separately (and YES, they may need and deserve to be processed and worked through), but just not in the very moment they are finally doing the thing you've wanted them to do.

Don't punish the behavior you want to see more of. Let's not work against ourselves.

You’ve built a life — amazing work, meaningful relationships, roles you’ve grown into — but have you truly met yourself?...
01/26/2026

You’ve built a life — amazing work, meaningful relationships, roles you’ve grown into — but have you truly met yourself? 🤍

You School is a 9-month journey of self-leadership designed for thoughtful, high-capacity humans who are ready to move beyond insight and step into deeper curiosity, clarity, and grounded confidence. It blends evidence-informed tools from psychology, contemplative practice, neuroscience, and meaning-making to help you understand how your mind really works — not as therapy, but as supported personal expansion.

This is for the overthinkers, the changemakers, the ones sensing something deeper calling — and finally ready to answer. 💫

đź’› Monthly gatherings
🧠 Practices that cultivate steadiness + self-understanding
🌱 Space to experiment, integrate, and transform
✨ Community of learners + explorers

Come learn what it means to be with yourself — so you can show up more fully in every part of your life. 🌿

Don't let them take the giggles from us.
01/26/2026

Don't let them take the giggles from us.

I’m sitting in a chair by my front window watching the snow continue to come down hard, and it’s clear that we’re not go...
01/25/2026

I’m sitting in a chair by my front window watching the snow continue to come down hard, and it’s clear that we’re not going anywhere for a while.

The snow didn’t ask us about our preferences or our readiness or whether we had the strength to face it. It never does. It just started falling, covering what were familiar landscapes and making them almost indistinguishable.

It can be almost paralyzing to behold. It feels so much bigger than we are, so unmovable, so indifferent to our desires or even our fears.

The roads - really, any familiar paths - have disappeared.

Then again, where would we go anyway?

There’s an impulse to freeze right along with the ice that’s accumulating. To let the feeling of overwhelm and powerlessness take hold. To let our blood run cold.

To look out at the enormity of what is and become convinced that this is it. We’ll be stuck like this forever.

I’m thinking today about what it could mean to let ourselves be snowed in. To have nowhere to go, nothing we can fix in this moment. To be forced to reckon with the bitterness of the world outside, and to actively choose to turn inward.

To get quiet with ourselves.

To watch it all. To feel it all.

Not freezing. Not collapsing.

Using the pause to listen closely for our next move.

Where am I needed?

Where does joy still live?

I look up through the window and I see neighbors starting to shovel each others’ driveways. Someone snowboarding down the street. A little boy making a snow angel.

Little signs of life everywhere.

In The Second Mountain, David Brooks invites us to think differently about what makes a life truly meaningful. Drawing f...
01/25/2026

In The Second Mountain, David Brooks invites us to think differently about what makes a life truly meaningful. Drawing from inspiring stories and deep reflection, Brooks shows how shifting our focus from self-centered goals to a life of connection and commitment can bring a deeper kind of fulfillment.

Discussing The Second Mountain together gives us space to reflect on where we are in our own journeys, and what it means to live a life that feels rich and whole. In conversation, we can explore how challenges, changes, and choices can move us toward lives anchored in meaning, belonging, and joy.

Register to join us at the link in comments. 🪴 📚

I'm hearing from lots of folks who are using AI to better understand aspects of their conditions and experience, and som...
01/23/2026

I'm hearing from lots of folks who are using AI to better understand aspects of their conditions and experience, and some who are really finding a lot of value in the information they are gathering. What is often missing, though, is the process of integration.

A good therapist is highly skilled at tracking and pacing. Unlike AI, which is desperate to keep you logged on and engaged and whose goal is to volume -- a good therapist is monitoring your nervous system and the ways bodies and brains can actually utilize information.

Without this, we experience information overload. That might feel okay for a while, but eventually we realize that little may moving for us -- or worse, we're checking out or getting demoralized.

If you are using AI as a mental health resource, my advice would be to use it in small doses, to set a time limit, to check the veracity of the information as much as possible , and to not provide any information that you would risk being exposed given the confidentiality concerns.

Rather than trying to brighten the darkness or rush clarity, we’ll practice being with winter—both seasonally and emotio...
01/21/2026

Rather than trying to brighten the darkness or rush clarity, we’ll practice being with winter—both seasonally and emotionally—exploring practices to increase capacity and develop turning inward with ease.

Participants will have the opportunity to enjoy warming teas, local honey, and a variety of self-care practices to support this process.

Together, we’ll explore how to cultivate internal warmth, soften expectations, and stay connected to ourselves during this winter season.

Just a few seats left for this special workshop ✨

It’s far too easy to forget how totally transformational it can be to spend dedicated time in the presence of creative, ...
01/20/2026

It’s far too easy to forget how totally transformational it can be to spend dedicated time in the presence of creative, clever, compassionate women. This is your reminder to not let yourself forget. 🩵

We had the opportunity this past weekend to host our very first retreat experience and — spoiler — it was incredible. Just more than we could have ever dreamed. 🥹

The Reset & Realign Retreat was designed for women who are bringing good into the world through their work and businesses. These were women who now that to lead and impact others, we have to start from a place of wholeness and grounding.

Our time together was simply magical. From strategy sessions to nature walks to breathwork and gentle work sprints to delicious meals, we used the time to restore and root into what’s most important.

A huge thank you to the participants for your trust and vulnerability. Gratitude also to our team for supporting this idea and to our friends for helping bring some magic. ✨

If you are interested in future offerings like this, let me know.

The POWER OF THE PAUSE is superpower among high-bandwidth people who want to stop over-functioning and hone their energy...
01/14/2026

The POWER OF THE PAUSE is superpower among high-bandwidth people who want to stop over-functioning and hone their energy and resources.

When you are used to living on adrenaline or operating from people-pleasing, this lets your nervous system regulate so you can make a grounded decision about your actual interest and capacity.

And if someone pushes back, you can let them know this is simply something you have set as a practice for yourself -- it's not personal.

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