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Here you'll find a mix of educational pieces and my own musings on therapy, somatics, healing, and liberation.
While intended to inform, these writings are not meant to substitute the professional support provided in therapy and coaching sessions. Consider what you read an invitation to get curious about your experience and connect with others interested in doing the same.
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Practice Slowing Down When the Stakes Are Low
Oh, how challenging slowing down can be. And how necessary. In trauma therapy, we often say we have to go slow to speed up.
Raina LaGrand
Nov 30, 20212 min read
Coming Out of the Tunnel
That feeling when you can only focus on what, or who, is pissing you off. I call this the tunnel: focused and flooded.
Raina LaGrand
Nov 4, 20212 min read
Conflict is Only Half of the Story
How do you feel about conflict in your relationships? Conflict is only half of the story. In therapy, we refer to this as rupture and repair
Raina LaGrand
Oct 18, 20212 min read
What is Parts Work?
Parts Work is a framework to help us hold space for and integrate our multiplicity; the many layers of our human emotions, desires,...
Raina LaGrand
Oct 6, 20212 min read
Self-Effulgent Self-Praxis
When I first decided to pursue a career in therapy, part of me struggled against what felt like a departure from everything I’d known...
Raina LaGrand
Sep 30, 20212 min read
Ring the Bell: Three Steps to Accessing Supportive Resources in Times of Distress
Resource yourself! How to make your healing dreams a reality. What we can learn from dogs about that journey.
Raina LaGrand
Sep 20, 20213 min read
You can't use better tools unless you have them
We can't use better tools unless we have them. Unless we know they exist. Unless we know that they are accessible to us and we are...
Raina LaGrand
Aug 3, 20214 min read
5 Ways Parts Work Can Help Your Relationships
Parts work is spacious enough for intensity and multiplicity. Here are 5 ways it can help your relationships during conflict.
Raina LaGrand
Aug 3, 20213 min read
Your Mind is in Your Body: Thoughts as Invitations into The Body
I want to address something that happens in the somatic field (sometimes unintentionally, but not without root). The thing that happens...
Raina LaGrand
Jun 30, 20211 min read
We all have oppressor parts
We are multi-faceted. This is why I love parts work/internal family systems so much. Parts work intertwines beautifully with somatic work...
Raina LaGrand
Jun 1, 20213 min read
Small Wins
How small wins can help us get unstuck and believe in ourselves!
Raina LaGrand
Apr 22, 20212 min read
Why Somatics?
Why somatics?
Raina LaGrand
Mar 31, 20212 min read
Mindfulness Masquerade
We can't even begin to talk about mindfulness without acknowledging the gravity of capitalism. Capitalism, defined very simply, is the...
Raina LaGrand
Mar 9, 20213 min read
Embodiment is not easy, but it is 100% possible
Make no mistake: somatic work is not easy. With mindful awareness of our body, we can find ease. We can regulate and resource ourselves...
Raina LaGrand
Feb 22, 20213 min read
Why Yoga Praxis?
Yoga means yoke, or union. In the Yoga Sutras Pantanjali defined yoga specifically as mastery over the mind-body. This involves active...
Raina LaGrand
Feb 18, 20211 min read
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