Andrea Quatrale LCSW

07/30/2022

〰️ COMMUNITY 〰️

We are so grateful for our global community 🌎🫶

A reminder…every Sunday at 8.00pm (Perth time) we meet online to practice Mahat Meditation together.

The weekly meditations rotate through Mahat levels 1-3 and are free to all Mahats.

To join the meditation, the meeting ID and password for Zoom are below -

Meeting ID: 720 3545 0984

Meeting password: 297682

This is a beautiful way to end the week and to connect with like minded Mahats and friends from around the world.

A big thank you to Beverly, Kirsten and Shannon for hosting these online practices.

We hope to see you online soon 🤍🧘🏻‍♀️📿

06/18/2022

What stops you from sitting with your emotions? Often it’s the idea that if I allow myself to feel then I’ll have to do something. You don’t have to do anything. Simply allow.

05/20/2022

How’s everyone doing tonight? Feel free to share what’s on your mind. I’m listening.

11/27/2021

Isn’t this beautiful?

You have traveled too fast over false ground;
Now your soul has come to take you back.

Take refuge in your senses, open up
To all the small miracles you rushed through.

Become inclined to watch the way of rain
When it falls slow and free.

Imitate the habit of twilight,
Taking time to open the well of color
That fostered the brightness of day.

Draw alongside the silence of stone
Until its calmness can claim you.

Be excessively gentle with yourself.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the blessing, 'For One Who is Exhausted,' from John's books:
Benedictus (Europe) / To Bless the Space Between Us (US)

Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

Ballyvaughan, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

11/27/2021

A client of mine brought this word up in therapy one day. The energy of the word, once she explained the meaning, hit me right in my heart space. I later confirmed it with my cousin’s husband who is indeed from Wales and appears to me as a descendant of the Vikings.

The melting of his heart was audible when I mentioned the word to him (after first learning how to pronounce it correctly).

I find this time of year brings many to a place of nostalgia and yearning for home; literal for some and mythical for many.

Take whatever you may be yearning for and see how you can create it in the here and now. (I’ll be preparing his favorite dessert from Wales when next he visits) Start small so it’s achievable. Or create it for another whom you know is experiencing hiraeth.

Allow yourself to experience the satisfaction of a completed gestalt!

“If there was already a path it would be someone else’s- the whole point is to find your way. “ -JC

10/21/2021

09/08/2021

I relaxed when I told myself that the pilot was as invested in living as I was. And upon release from the tow plane I surrendered to the winds.

07/14/2021

Separating yourself from someone you love doesn’t mean you don’t love them. It signifies that you’ve chosen to disappoint them instead of yourself. This courageous act gives birth to self love.
This is a hard challenge. But the benefits outweigh the pain. It’s hard either way. Choose your hard.

05/16/2021

I was up early...
Take this time to be still and breathe.