Connectfulness

11/19/2025

Dear Ones,

There’s something I want you to know. Working through the hard stuff isn’t what drains us. It’s the turning away that wears us down.

When we turn toward the hard relational moments, when we turn toward ourselves, even in the smallest ways, something softens and opens. Compassion. Self-trust. Space.

That’s what we’ll explore together this Friday, November 21 from 4:30 to 8 PM in Gardiner, NY. Tiny, playful experiments. Micro-practices you can actually feel In your body. Ways of staying with yourself while you engage with what matters.

You don’t have to make things that matter smaller. You don’t have to learn any of this alone. You aren’t meant to. We get hurt in relationships, and we heal in them too. This group is tender and brave like that. You may find your own courage reflected back in someone else, and they may find themselves in what you choose to share.

If you’re wondering what might shift for you as we explore rupture and repair… come find out.

With love,
Rebecca ♡

11/17/2025

In their recent podcast, Autumn Brown and adrienne marre brown talk with Francis Weller. They discuss the essentialness of engaging with grief and shame, the necessary process of the long dark, and how descent leads to self-discovery.

I’m digging in and invite you to also…

The sisters are thrilled to welcome soul activist, Francis Weller to the show. They discuss how engaging with grief and shame is essential, the necess...

11/12/2025

Ruptures are part of relationship. They aren’t mistakes to fix or avoid. Ruptures are invitations to notice our edges, slow down, and meet ourselves and each other with compassion.

In Session 3: Rupture & Repair, we’ll explore what happens when connection feels hard. You’ll practice staying present in charged moments without abandoning yourself, notice how your nervous system responds, and develop small practices that help you respond rather than react. Alone or with a partner, this session will guide you toward relational responsiveness and deeper trust.

We’ll gather Friday, November 21 from 4:30 to 8 PM at The Living Room at Full Circle. A shared meal will be part of our time, a chance to tend ourselves in community. Space is limited.

11/10/2025

What do grief, love and acceptance have to do with boundaries?

Grief and Boundary Work: How Love, Loss & Acceptance Intertwine | Jules Taylor ShoreIn this teaching, Jules Taylor Shore explores how grief, love, and accep...

10/31/2025

With the looming food insecurity crisis, here’s a list of local resources, all accessible via UCAT transportation.

Please feel welcome to share additional resources in the comments. If you have the means, please consider donating food or funds to support these programs. Mutal aid and collective care are needed.

https://ulstercorps.org/for-volunteers/opportunities-by-agency-type/food-pantries-and-meal-programs/

10/12/2025

Powerful discussion around the importance of intimacy and holding, not just about segs, but about a deeper intimacy society is needing more of.

10/12/2025

Our free Virtual Geography of Grief Gathering is happening this Monday, October 13, from 12:30–1:30 PM EST. This is an invitation to gather, not to figure things out, but to practice being in relationship with what is emerging. To notice sensations, thoughts, and emotions as they emerge. To be with grief inside community and be with it, allowing it to be witnessed. To notice what is taken for granted, to question what has been taught to trust, and to feel into what sits okay, and what doesn’t. Our shared presence itself is a regulatory, relational practice.

Preregister for link to join. Link in bio and story.

10/08/2025

Our free Virtual Geography of Grief Gathering is happening Monday, October 13, from 12:30–1:30 PM EST. This is an invitation to gather, not to figure things out, but to practice being in relationship with what is emerging. To notice sensations, thoughts, and emotions as they emerge. To be with grief inside community and be with it, allowing it to be witnessed. To notice what is taken for granted, to question what has been taught to trust, and to feel into what sits okay, and what doesn’t. Our shared presence itself is a regulatory, relational practice.

I continue to think much lately about the geography of grief. Of hope. Of wanting. Of being. Of aching. And loving. There's so much unraveling. So much grief and injustice. So much to witness and metabolize. And the overwhelm of not knowing how to be with any of it, and still needing to keep going.....

10/07/2025

On September 26, a group of us gathered for the first session of The Relationally Rooted Series: Turning Toward. It was a powerful, emergent space of collective learning. While I can’t capture the depth of what we experienced, I can share the arc that guided our exploration of how we relate to discomfort in body, mind, and nervous system.

We began by noticing how discomfort shows up, what it feels like in our bodies, what we do or say in response, how it sounds when we listen, and what it wants us to know once it feels heard. As we got to know discomfort more intimately, compassion grew. From there, we practiced noticing, turning toward, inquiring what discomfort wants us to know, and meeting it well. Then we turned back again to sense how discomfort feels toward us. This kind of layered embodied work is best integrated experientially.

On Friday, October 24 (4:30 to 8:00 PM), we gather again for Boundaries and Edges in The Living Room at Full Circle in Gardiner, NY. We will explore how to expand our capacity to be with what is and how to relate to the wisdom of our boundaries. We will continue practicing being in relationship with discomfort as a scaffold for transformation, letting discomfort become our teacher.

We will gather once more on Friday, November 21, for Rupture and Repair. You are invited to join one or both of the remaining sessions.

And on Monday, October 13 (12:30 to 1:30 PM EST), our free **Virtual Geography of Grief Gathering** offers space to be with what is emerging, to feel, notice, and witness grief in community. Our shared presence itself becomes a regulatory relational practice.

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10/06/2025

Jane, may your compassion continue to inspire us all.

10/01/2025

I love etymology. Deshogar is today’s word!

May is Mental Health Awareness Month — it's a topic rarely discussed within the Latinx community.