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Transforming Domination Culture from the Inside Out

What’s Possible When Your Ancestors
Become a Jetpack Instead of an Anvil?

November 11, 2022 By Angela Watrous

In December 2019, I began studying ancestral lineage healing, a method of ancestral work that powerfully enlists your bright thriving ancestors (often pre-agrarian and pre-patriarchal) to bring healing to any troubled ancestors between them and you, resolving blockages and restoring the channels of ancestral blessings and support so they can finally reach you. In this work, we focus […]

Filed Under: Ancestors, Ancestral Healing, Ancestral Lineage Healing, Epigenetics, Intergenerational Trauma, Nervous System, Secure Attachment

What Would Your Life Be Like if You Were Warmly Welcomed in Your Wholeness? A Love Letter to Your Nervous System

February 14, 2018 By Angela Watrous

By the time we’re four months old, our interactions with our primary caregiver reveal whether or not we’ll have a secure or insecure attachment—our foundation for all our love relationships. We learn early and unconsciously which emotions our primary caregiver can welcome in themselves and in us. If they get angry or overwhelmed when we’re […]

Filed Under: Interpersonal Neurobiology, Nervous System, Resonant Empathy, Secure Attachment, Warm Resonant Support

What Does It Really Take to Not Give Up? A Simple Approach for Difficult Times

February 1, 2017 By Angela Watrous

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. This is the advice our culture offers us about fortitude amidst adversity: If you’re tough, you’ll do something. If you’re not tough, well, toughen up. If that doesn’t work, there’s something wrong with you. Try harder. Rely on willpower. Buck up. Didn’t work? Buckle down. Try […]

Filed Under: Collaboration, Companionship, Secure Attachment, Warm Resonant Support

What Would You Do with Your Life if You Had More Support?

January 12, 2015 By Angela Watrous

I’m writing you tonight from the recently reopened community room at Wilbur Hot Springs. I hear some guests cooking their meals in the nearby kitchen and others chatting over their dinner by the fireplace. In the library, folks are reading and napping on overstuffed sofas. The atmosphere is warm and nurturing and familiar, which is […]

Filed Under: Collaboration, Companionship, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Resonant Empathy, Secure Attachment, Warm Resonant Support

The Truth about Your Inner Critic

September 11, 2014 By Angela Watrous

Do you spur on your inner critic, hoping that if you can just be harder on yourself, you can liberate yourself from your pain and inhabit your life more fully? Or do you try to stifle, ignore, or exile your inner critic, believing that the key to happiness is to just think positively and overpower […]

Filed Under: Collaboration, Companionship, Compassion and Self-Compassion, Domination, Coercion, Shoulds, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Resonant Empathy, Secure Attachment, Uncategorized, Warm Resonant Support

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