JAYE MOYER

Difficult feelings like shame, anger, fear and grief "activate" us. We get overheated, are hijacked by them and lose our "grounded-ness". These feelings persist and continuously distress us. Naturally, we want to turn away from them. But turning away is what keeps us bound to them! Instead, we need to learn to attend to them with lots of kindness and care. In my practice, psychotherapy collaborates with creativity, mindful-awareness, and compassion in a "holding environment"... Mindful awareness can be simply defined as moment-to-moment awareness. It is paying attention to our surroundings, our experience, and our reaction as each moment arrives and passes... By practicing mindful awareness, we are learning how to "be" with what is occurring, without perpetually getting hooked into our stories.