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Behrend Counseling LLC, Olympia, WA (2025)

I work with people who recognize that habitual ways of behaving, thinking and believing no longer serve them or those they love. My orientation is to help you recognize, accept and work with deep unconscious patterns set into motion from past traumas and current life experiences which no longer serve you. This way of working together provides an opportunity to navigate the world differently and opens up new possibilities for health and healing. Patterns are universal in nature, they can be both healthy and unhealthy as well as provide the blueprint for how to live a life in harmony with oneself, others and one’s own destiny. They reveal how humanity has traversed the experience of being human from birth to death. The mandates of each stage of life are encoded in sacred stories, myths, fairy tales, dreams and images. Whether dealing with trauma experienced in the past or in the present, changes in life circumstances, or transitions from one stage or life to another, the possibility for moving through life with more grace, freedom and ease is available to each person. Change and choice can occur with awareness, insight, action and the perseverance to stay with the task at hand. My work is to help you discern the patterns which hold you back, find ways to interrupt their hold on your life and help you align to a more positive and life enhancing pattern. I do so by holding a judgement free environment, using a variety of approaches, and listening closely to what your stories, dreams and images reveal about where you are now and what your future might look like.

10/22/2025

A reflection for these times:

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10/12/2025

Les vi las caras anoche
Una detrás de la otra
Caras ancianas, cansadas, ansiosas
Caras de amor, amistad, esperanza
Les vi las caras anoche
Me vinieron a visitar
Para darme coraje
Para recordarme
Que hemos luchado y vivido
Dando vida a la vida
Amparo y luz
Contra la obscuridad
Y diciéndome,
Sos una de nosotras, hija.
No te rindas,
Juntas, siempre juntas.

I saw your faces last night
One after the other
Ancient, tired anxious faces
Faces of love friendship and hope
You came to visit me
To give me courage
To remind me
That we have struggled and lived
Giving life to life
Protection and light
Against the darkness
Telling me,
You are one of us, daughter,
Don’t give up.
Together, always together.

10/12/25

10/09/2025

A reflection on soul making at this time of upheaval and distress in our nation:
Through the transformational fire: Glass and Soul
I dreamt I was making glass beads last night, again.
I loved the process, both in the studio and in the inner world.
I love:
How glass rods turn into bright liquid in the torch
The molten glass, like honey, coalesces into balls of color
Any movement from true center, any distraction, and the center shifts
The glass moves to the side and then the exquisite recalibration begins.
Did you know that glass wants to be round?
Do you know that our souls long for expression?
It is a collaboration among the glass, the rod which holds it and extreme heat.
And me.
The delicate dance of taking a solid into a molten state (I have burn marks)
Shifting gravity, carefully adding elements, calculating coefficients
(you cannot combine 104 with borosilicate)
It is a mystery, really.
Glass wants to be round.
Soul longs to be expressed.
Then, when the bead is finished, when the marks of the cold smasher is smoothed over
By air drying in a lower flame
Then, comes the slow cooling off period.
Inserting the bead in the 950 degree kiln
More heat to temper the glass
Which has already gone through many firings
From sand and minerals and fierce heat to a solid rod
To a molten liquid
Again to a solid
When cooled to perfection, annealed, made strong as not to break
The mystery reveals a beauty beyond compare.
Did you know that glass and soul want to become what they are?

08/28/2025

The Rev. Dr. Silvia Behrend is a Unitarian Universalist minister in private practice. She writes and speaks about matters of the Soul, as well as what matters to Soul

08/20/2025

On Good and Evil, a short reflection. As a Unitarian Universalist minister, it is important to speak about the timelessness and the importance of becoming conscious of our part in the ongoing story. Here is the link to the video:

The Rev. Dr. Silvia Behrend is a Unitarian Universalist minister in private practice. She writes and speaks about matters of the Soul, as well as what matters to Soul

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Olympia, WA

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm

Website

http://www.behrendcounseling.com/

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