Breaking New Ground

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Breaking New Ground

Dr. Jennifer White-Baughan Ph.D. is a seasoned psychologist with 30 years of experience focusing on

04/13/2023

"Grandma, I'm tired. So tired of this life..."

"Take your tiredness, my child, and wrap it around yourself. Like a blanket in the cold winter months. Tiredness comes to make you a nest, to bring you to wear comfortable clothes, to make you sink into its warm embrace. I invite you to stay within yourself. Without strength, without thoughts, without actions. Like the snow that covers everything to soften the world, to make it muffled, to protect it from noise. Accept the flakes of your tiredness and let yourself be completely covered by them."

"I could die buried under there..."

"You will be reborn instead. Like the seed in the ground. Do not resist your weariness, do not reject it with a thousand actions, a thousand intentions, a thousand feelings of guilt. It just wants to take you by the hand and lead you to sink into the void. Right there, where the source of every inner strength lies. They taught us to be strong by resisting. But it is in surrendering that the true heroes emerge."

"I'm afraid, grandmother. What if fatigue will annihilate me?"

"My child, you are not afraid of tiredness but of losing control of yourself. The time has come for you to give yourself to life. And to generate together with it the most wonderful children: the fruits of your soul!"

Author: Elena Bernabè

Picture by Magic on Flickr

08/27/2022

The roots and the risk of "chatter."

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1505 Bridgeway
Sausalito, CA
94965

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+14243827259

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http://www.breakingnewground.com/

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My Philosophy

I love what I do as a psychologist and trauma specialist. Trauma clients and all humans want to feel safe and understood in the presence of great vulnerability; they want to be listened to and heard and they seek the tenderness and forgiveness of their own selves in the process of healing. My clients want to know they are lovable. I practice from the space of vulnerability as strength and resilience as the potential outcome for our suffering. I ground my work in empathy and equip myself with as many tools and as much new information and deep reflection as I can. I am seasoned and efficient in my practice.

When we avoid or deny our vulnerabilities we do so at our own peril for this impacts our health and all of the relationships in our lives. Living can be understood in terms of perceived loss or it can be a lesson in the power of surrender to “what is.” Reality acceptance can generate gratitude and enhance our grace of living. I have been to many places of war and cataclysms in my career (see my C.V.) and I have witnessed profound human challenge but it is in the witnessing of extraordinary resilience that I have formed my world view. Clients are in charge of their treatment outcomes and the therapeutic process is a collaborative relationship where I am the guide for their exploration and the person who works with them to make their goals both conscious, functional, and realized.

I believe we are embedded in the context of our ecological world just as we are within our families. There is wisdom for us from all sentient life, which includes plants and our relationships to the animals and each other while here. How we relate to the all of nature is a reflection, a microcosm of how we relate to ourselves and how we learn to value all of life on this planet.