Core Energetics Connecticut/Lisa Loustaunau

12/31/2021

We keep being called to re-discover what is most true and real within ourselves and prioritize what matters. Wishing you all a growthful 2022 filled with many unexpected blessings and centered in Love.

12/25/2020

We've all had to dig deep this year to find our ground when everything we were used to calling normal disappeared. Many days I felt challenged to the core and entertained myself with escapist fantasies of remote islands where the enforced aloneness would at least make sense...just me, the thatched hut, the palm tree, and high-speed internet.

But that hasn't happened so far, and so I've been leaning in to option B—which is corraling my negative "I don't want to do this anymore, I'm so sick of this" thoughts (of course I don't, who does?) and thinking about all that is good in my life, the many ways I am blessed. So while I really miss my kids, friends, and loved ones, I am blessed to have kids, friends, and loved ones...and so much more. I am grateful today Christmas morning as I look at my tiny 18" tree, covered in lights and bulbs listening to Classical Christmas Music.

To all those who have lost loved ones this year and are mourning, my heart goes out to you. To all those who are struggling to make ends meet, my heart goes out to you. To all our exhausted healthcare workers my heart goes out to you and I THANK YOU!

Blessings and Best Wishes to all.
With Love,
Lisa

11/25/2020

09/28/2020

This little toddler is beyond adorable and a couple's therapist already. Listen to what she says after hearing her parents fight.

This little girl would make an excellent marriage counselor! She comforted her mother after hearing her parents fight. Original Video: http://www.dailymail.c...

04/11/2020

We are all trying to find our way through this. As the days pass you may find your initial plans and coping strategies changing, your moods and emotions more labile moment to moment. Be kind to yourself. We are a living a shared trauma, and worse, an ongoing one, where there is no clear end or outcome in sight.

Yesterday a friend shared a story from Pocket with me, originally written for the New Yorker in 2002. Before she died, the author Grace Paley wrote about some advice her father gave her. It's wonderful advice and so I want to share it with you. "The main thing," he said to her, "is this — when you get up in the morning you must take your heart in your two hands. You must do this every morning." When Grace asked him if this was a metaphor, he said, "no, put your hands on your heart and push a little, pat, stroke a little, don't be ashamed...then you must talk to your heart, talk softly, say anything, but be respectful.

I am going to practice this. This is one I can do, because a) it takes so little time, and, b) I instinctively feel the power of this simple gesture. My addition to the exercise will be to listen to what my heart whispers back, to hear what my heart needs, hear its wisdom, at the least, to hear its steady rhythmic pulsation and remember that this connects me with all living creatures everywhere, always.

From my heart to yours....

01/16/2020

This message is directed to all the therapists in my network that work in a somatic therapy modality. A recent Core Energetics graduate and practitioner, currently in Core Postgrad training is conducting a very short (3 min) survey on race differences in their practice. I am hoping you can take a few minutes of your time to participate. Here is the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VND93TD

01/01/2020

My Best Wishes for a 2020 filed with wisdom, love, joy, abundance and Blessings to you all.

11/19/2019

I write in support of an auction event that raises scholarship money for students to train at the Institute of Core Energetics. Core work changes lives and raises consciousness. it supports healing and integration in individuals, families, groups, and communities. In an ever more divided world, this work is more needed than ever.

Attend in person, bid on-line, or join via Zoom.
Here are the details:

Where: In-person, Institute of Core Energetics 1120 Avenue of the Americas, 4th floor in the Hippodrome Building, New York, NY 10036

When: This Friday, November 22. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Items will be on display for you to peruse, while you schmooze, with a little...wine and nosh, door prizes, and community connection. Bidding begins at 7:00 PM.

Where and When Via Zoom: in the comfort of your home and on our big flat screen in the auction room. Click the link to join at 7 PM. Invite a few friends over and bid with us in real time. https://zoom.us/j/2046509629

Meanwhile, you can view most of the items here> online and do some pre-bidding. You can register to bid, very easily, using your Facebook account info.

10/10/2019

Each one of us has a lower self. Just as the human being is intrinsically creative we also possess a destructive energy current. The lower self is, in fact, a tributary of the vital creative life current that has become split off and distorted. This current sabotages our best intentions, creates pain in our relationships, closes our heart, and keeps us distrustful of our own power. Most of us fear facing it. Instead, we deny it, suppress it, repress it, rise above it, and often project it onto others. The result is that we split off from an aspect of ourselves that has a great deal of energy to offer if we can tap into it in a contained and grounded environment, understand the dynamics of our attachment to it, and then transform the negativity of it back into the creative life current. Honestly facing, taking responsibility for, and integrating our lower self opens the path to the Core and allows the light and power of our Higher Self to permeate more of our life. — Lisa Loustaunau

07/23/2019

The experience of being fully alive, which means a fully embodied experience, brings pleasure in being, feeling moving and sensing. It makes us open, curious, interested, engaged, involved, and joyous in the most real sense of the word. Full aliveness is a deeply sensual experience of the mystery of life and all its possibilities in every here and now.

Joseph Cambell put it thusly, “People say that what we’re seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. What we seek is an experience of being alive.”