Spiritual Alignment Articles
Are you speaking your truth or are you just projecting?
It’s common to see our relationships through the lens of unconscious memories of people from our past (projections), through barriers or walls to intimacy (deflections), through old ideas from the past about who we are (introjections), through shame and guilt (retroflections), or through the opinions of others (confluence). In Gestalt psychotherapy, we call these Contact Boundary Disturbances. All of these disturbances are patterned ways of being in relationships that we developed early in life in an attempt to find safety and keep connection. These were adaptable strategies that helped us when we didn’t yet know how to stand in our dignity and our truth.
3 Reasons Why You Suffer and How to Heal those Painful Patterns
I've been fascinated by personal growth my entire life. Having been raised in a family of healers, I've been immersed in healing for as long as I can remember. I did breathwork when I was 5, started practicing transcendental meditation when I was 6, did a firewalk...
Is your relationship a reflection of your wholeness or your attachment wounds?
Sometimes, relationships seem hard. The challenge of negotiating different personas, different desires, different opinions, and different communication styles can be overwhelming. Navigating a relationship with conscious awareness means that we are able to...
Three steps to connecting with people who are difficult to connect with.
It happens all the time: Your child tells you to go away. Your friend wants space. Your in-laws are closed off to deep conversation. Your spouse gets triggered and pulls away. How can we connect with those who don't want connection? 1.) Get curious about your...
Become an Emergent Being
Harmony’s Interview with Krysta Gibson of New Spirit Journal: Krysta- Hello and welcome everyone. This is Krysta Gibson with Newspiritjournal.com. Those of you who read these online publication and listen to the interviews that I do know that you’re on a...
Spread Magic. Take a Leap.
For far too long, I forgot that I was magical. I forgot that the essence of my make up was pure, sparkling creative energy that could heal the oldest wounds and reach the depths of intimacy. I thought that the habitual thoughts, impulses, and behaviors of my conditioned self were the extent of who I was. In being identified with the part of myself that was shaped by experiences I had early in life, I lived as if I was who the world told me I was.
Cultivating Intimacy
I believe that we all long for deep intimacy. I also believe that we are deathly afraid of the vulnerability it takes to cultivate such depth of connection in our relationships. In a recent article I wrote for Marriage.com titled “3 ways to cultivate...
Vulnerability and Intimacy
I used to hide my truth from those around me in an attempt to earn love. On the deepest most unconscious level, I thought that if you really new me that you would never like me, let alone love me. I wrote about the cost of this in a recent...
How to Overcome Fear to Offer your Gifts to the World
When I was 6 years old I knew that I was a healer. Psychology was the only topic that interested me in college, and when I earned a MA in clinical psychology I thought I was ready to start a private practice. I set up my office and hung my...
Why do people get intrusive thoughts?
I was recently asked about the dark, intrusive thoughts that people sometimes get when they are feeling stress, chronic fear, or even immense love. In this video blog, I explain my experience with intrusive thoughts and share why I think they are a true...
Creating Deep Connection in your Relationships
In the past, the way that I have shown up for relationships has prevented me from experiencing deep connection. Even though I am a caring, loving person who is both thoughtful and open, the way in which I hid myself, my experience , and my truth from...
How can I manage my physical pain consciously?
When the body screams in pain, we have no choice but to listen. Well, that’s not exactly true: we can suppress it, resist it, hate it, get surgery on it, medicate it, and try to manage it. But the reality is that no intervention will give us the relief we...
