Psychotherapist, Author & Architect of A-ha Moments; Dorothy brings you the culmination of decades of innovation in service of personal development, spirituality and whole being healing. A genre-bending exploration of the landscape of this sacred journey each of us are on. Topics include: psychology, personal development, spirituality and mindfulness; and the sharing of true life stories from those who have overcome, broken through and found liberation, self-healing and love; through unlocking possibility, potential, purpose and peace on the path to awaken authentic power. Part mindfulness meditation, part spoken word inspiration combined with real life client stories – documenting the a-ha moments that showcase the power of the human spirit. Curated wisdom on timely and relevant social and personal development issues, with reflective prompts to guide you on your journey of living your best life. With each episode we explore the path of self-awareness, healing and empowerment; in a way that is both motivational and insightful; delivered in a Client/Therapist narrative format.
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When Are You Ready To Heal? 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 77 "Healing is not to erase the past nor to engage it. Healing is making the present home again." - dzj It is releasing all of the past that is not healed. It is releasing with the careful understanding that you have entered into a new ground of possibility. You have emerged stronger. You are not a victim. You can seek the answers that you need in order to generate the healing responses of your future life. ~ You cannot heal from a position of anger, anxiety, fear, rage, envy. You can heal only through love and the willingness that you choose to love yourself in spite of all that has happened - in spite of all that you have lived through and in the careful remembering that everything - no matter how difficult, - is heal 'able.' ~ Join me for a NEW 30 Day Masterclass: A Positive Mind
The Positivity Of Everything The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 76 'Positivity in the choice you make to align yourself with all that is good ~ all that is just ~ all that is beautiful ~ all that is love.' ~ In this reflective Meditation, you'll have an opportunity to be guided in expanding your thinking, feeling and the actions that elevate your life. The positivity of everything is the desire to witness the presence of something rather than its absence ~ to hold a view and a mindset of optimism; constructive, affirmative, observation; without doubt. Clear and definitive confidence, knowing that life is truly meant to be experienced in this beautiful way. How can you live with a positive mind? How can you live this now? ~ Join me for a NEW 30 Day Masterclass: A Positive Mind
When You Say You've Moved On, Have You? 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 75 We all have moments of our past that we would like to make disappear. Moments in which we were not at our best, moments that were extremely difficult, experiences of trauma and abuse, and certainly our own choices that may not have been the right ones. ~ When you have said "I've moved on" What exactly does that mean? Have you taken the steps to look closely at what you have moved on from? Is it a relationship that ended? Is it moving from making a mistake or being hurtful even unintentionally? Have you moved on from an old habit that never served you? Or have you walked away from a part of your life and just planned to forget it happened? In this episode we dive deep into the recent research which has revealed that trying to suppress the past has both direct effects on the unwanted memories themselves and profound side effects for unrelated memories. How do you truly 'move on' and how do you this in a way that supports healthy self-esteem, personal growth and the self-honesty that enables to heal what has happened? *Resources to check out: Research on suppression-induced amnesia Research on the benefit of healthy forgetting Join us! Our NEW 30 Day Masterclass has landed ~ #30DaysofPresence ~ It has a different vibe, a fresh new approach and it's the perfect complement to that sweet mid-summer magic that we all want to hold onto. We've crafted this 30 Day Masterclass ~ to be insightful, easeful and accessible, meaning you can fit it into your daily life - no prior experience is needed ~ just a willingness to show up for yourself. 5-10 minutes per day is all you need to cultivate your presence practice.
Someone to Love The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 74 This Episode features a chapter from my Audiobook: 'The Book of Love' ~ To have great love is to be this first. To be great love is to hold your heart open with certainty for the expression of love can fill you with the most radiant power. This love ~ all deserving ~ all pure ~ is the love that we all have. When we give love, when we are love freely, we manifest the perfection of love in these moments. Isn't this the most incredible experience to have ~ to live? Your capacity to give love without conditions is pure love without needing anything in return. You experience this with those with whom you love unconditionally. ~
The Power of Action in Achieving Your Goals 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 73 'Think of the action you take as the primitive force that wields all things desired ~ to you. With out action, leaves ~ only desire. With concerted action towards all things deeply desired, you become the conduit for miracles and dreams realized.' ~ Actions are widely understated in the habits of successful goal achievement ~ yet they are the single most critical element to move you towards all things desired. Action steps lead you into what become the daily habits that will give you what you need. For some it would be o clarify their needs. For some, self-kindness and the absence of feeling guilt and shame. Actions .. are the thoughtful deliberate steps that you take once you have decided what it is that you desire and after planning what steps will achieve this. Join us! Our NEW 30 Day Masterclass has landed ~ #30DaysofPresence ~ It has a different vibe, a fresh new approach and it's the perfect complement to that sweet mid-summer magic that we all want to hold onto. We've crafted this 30 Day Masterclass ~ to be insightful, easeful and accessible, meaning you can fit it into your daily life - no prior experience is needed ~ just a willingness to show up for yourself. 5-10 minutes per day is all you need to cultivate your presence practice.
The Purity of ~ P r e s e n c e The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 72 This VIDEO Episode is the REPLAY from one of our recent LIVESTREAM Events inside The JUNO app. ~ Join me in this reflective Guided Meditation from our Saturday series. ~ It's a sneak peek at one of our livestream events this month during our 30 Days Of Presence ~ Masterclass. ~
The Healing of Silence Shedding Your Trauma Secrets 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 71 "No one spoke about their feelings, their pain, their grief. It was all swept under the carpet - like it didn't exist." ~ Keeping trauma a secret has real consequences. The research is clear. Trauma memories that you keep a secret, that you never speak about... can lead to increased psychological and physical problems, including a heightened and overactive stress response, bouts of unexpected and often uncontrollable anxiety and fear when you are triggered by the past, shame, self-isolation, and difficulties forming and maintaining healthy relationships. Keeping trauma a secret definitely hinders the healing process and creates a sense of ongoing victimization. In this episode, the real life stories of how damaging it is to keep trauma a secret and my best recommendations for how you can begin to name the truth and to speak about it in a way that will help you effectively heal. *This episode contains sensitive content. + Our NEW 30 Day Masterclass has landed ~ #30DaysofPresence ~ It has a different vibe, a fresh new approach and it's the perfect complement to that sweet mid-summer magic that we all want to hold onto. We've crafted this 30 Day Masterclass ~ to be insightful, easeful and accessible, meaning you can fit it into your daily life - no prior experience is needed ~ just a willingness to show up for yourself. 5-10 minutes per day is all you need to cultivate your presence practice.
A Prayer of Self-Mothering The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 70 Self-mothering is the practice of providing yourself with the love, care and support you may not have received nor received as you needed it - whether as a child, or at any earlier time in your development. It involves nurturing your "inner child", addressing unmet emotional and physical needs and it includes fostering a deep sense of self-love and acceptance.
Morning Gratefulness ~ A Meditation ~ The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 68 Listen whenever you choose. This will set you up for a beautiful day and it will also close the day with a reverent perspective. 'The waiting is presence. It is to attend to all of the moments born out of a physical life. On a path I claim.' ~ + Our NEW 30 Day Masterclass has landed ~ #30DaysofPresence ~ It has a different vibe, a fresh new approach and it's the perfect complement to that sweet mid-summer magic that we all want to hold onto. We've crafted this 30 Day Masterclass ~ to be insightful, easeful and accessible, meaning you can fit it into your daily life - no prior experience is needed ~ just a willingness to show up for yourself. 5-10 minutes per day is all you need to cultivate your presence practice.
p r e s e n c e A Meditation 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 67 Presence is the opening you feel into all of life each present moment unto the next. Where mindfulness is noticing with curiosity, presence is a state or fact of existing. Presence is a whole body way of being. ~ It is the ability and willingness to engage with life. Being present connects you to the vitality and wisdom inherent in who you are. ~ + Our NEW 30 Day Masterclass has landed ~ #30DaysofPresence ~ It has a different vibe, a fresh new approach and it's the perfect complement to that sweet mid-summer magic that we all want to hold onto. We've crafted this 30 Day Masterclass ~ to be insightful, easeful and accessible, meaning you can fit it into your daily life - no prior experience is needed ~ just a willingness to show up for yourself. 5-10 minutes per day is all you need to cultivate your presence practice.
'I Love You' Beautiful Body The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 66 How do you love your body? How do you feel love of your body? ~ Let this body love meditation be an entryway to holding appreciation and greater love for all of the parts of you. As we go through these messages of self-love, visualize your body in its ideal state. Consider what true effects emerge from your visualization. Seeing and imagining your body as you choose it to be in ideal form and then to take the steps that will bring these ideals to life are significant to optimizing the positive feelings you hold. ~
Why Do I Keep Ruminating Over Past Traumas? How PTSD affects Trauma Thinking 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 65 Why does the brain continue often spontaneously to ruminate and obsess over past traumatic events causing you to continue to relive these experiences? How can you stop this or use these intrusive and undesired occurrences in a way that can be constructive to help you process and heal these difficult experiences? ~ In this episode: ~ How trauma can lead to rumination. ~ Why are the repetitive actions of thinking and rethinking about the past and in particular negative experiences and events - unproductive? ~ My client's story and his awakening realization of years spent ruminating on past conflicts. ~ The distinction between intrusive symptoms of PTSD and trauma-focused rumination. ~ The neurobiological impact to the brain after trauma ~ Why trauma causes rumination? ~ What you can do to help yourself to break the cycle of rumination ~ How the subconscious mind plays a significant role in processing events and how you can help yourself to contemplate the past in a way that is constructive and healing. References cited: i. Science Direct - Rumination in posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review ii. American Psychological Association - Responses to depression and their effects on the duration of depressive episodes iii. Science Direct - Transdiagnostic assessment of repetitive negative thinking and responses to positive affect: Structure and predictive utility for depression, anxiety, and mania symptoms
Loving Kindness as Conflict Resolution The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 64 How is loving kindness the most distinctive and helpful process for actively achieving conflict resolution? ~ What are the steps that will create resolution wherever there is conflict? There are four essential practices ~ and solutions for helping yourself and another move from conflict ~ into resolution. Here I explain and give you examples of each ~ and how to achieve resolution that begins with you.
Or Maybe It Is You That Needs To Change 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 63 We are able to identify in someone else - in our partner, in a sibling, a parent, a friend - what needs to change - and we become focused on this and often to the exclusion of asking: What do I need to do differently? ~ Change is fuelled by a deep desire. As humans we often seek change in one of two ways: We are motivated out of a desire for self-improvement and to elevate our experiences and the way in which we live life because we believe that this improvement will benefit us - It will help us further our goals of self-actualization and happiness. Change is also largely motivated out of suffering and the desire to be free of what conditions are undesired. You are the co-creator of your life. If you are struggling in any of your relationships - with co-workers, friends, your boss, your direct reports, your partner, your children - point the proverbial finger first at yourself and ask: What am I doing here that is contributing to my suffering/ or to the problem as I see it? And then to ask, what do I need to do differently?
The Miracle of Surrender The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 62 What does it truly mean to surrender? To surrender into the present moment – to love unparalleled is to live with your heart open and full of love – to quiet the noise of the mind in its deliberate efforts to compare and compete and to critique and ---- to acknowledge this as it is occurring means that you can choose to pause – to stop – to be grateful instead for the moments that you are being shown of something that you also want and you will find a way to make it your own and of your light.
s a n c t u a r y 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 61 "Open your eyes. Look all around you. For love's grace is woven into you life here - before you." ~ Meditation can be a meaningful way to open into ~ your spiritual self. This Meditation is intended to guide you along a spiritual path; for wherever you are at this moment and to what you are ready for. How will you exist with the perpetual freedom to love yourself? How do miracles of love reveal endless support of you? Let my words and the imagery and sensations that are evoked help you to be present to your spiritual self. If you would like my help to deepen your spiritual journey, please reach out to me.
Why Taking A Deep Breath Feels So Good The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 60 The Self-Healing Benefits of Deep Breathing: What You Need to Know. Here are the Top Five Reasons why it serves you well to take several Conscious Deep Breaths - whenever you can - and as often as you can. The simple practice of taking conscious deep breaths helps your body do what it is so intelligently designed to do. There are several reasons why taking a single deep breath - or several - are helpful and have proven benefits.
8 Rituals of The Heart 'ask dorothy' ~ VIDEO EPISODE The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 59 Rituals are a set of actions or words performed in the same or similar way every time. They cultivate what is experienced as ceremony, celebration or sacred observance. Rituals are prophetic and deeply significant for they become the ways of being that you live. ~ Hridaya is the place where one experiences their true self. It's a connection to feeling something larger than yourself. It is how you feel love, compassion and inspirational truth. Here I am speaking of hridaya and the rituals that support your ability to engage in the sacred rituals that are inspired by your spiritual heart. In this episode of 'ask dorothy' I'll be sharing the eight rituals to inspire you towards greater possibility or living from your spiritual heart. Perhaps as we go through this list, you will choose any or all of these rituals as your own.
A Meditation of Promise + A NEW 30 Day Journey Begins The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 58 Promise is the conviction of your heart's grace. Promise is the love and sincerity that you begin towards everything bountiful. This is a Meditation to inspire the conviction you hold to yourself ~ to flourish. A spiritual practice designed to help you visualize the inspiration and abundance that is possible ~ to live a life filled with the understanding that you are loved, to be all that you can be ~ and to appreciate even more, all that you are. Love's condition is the promise - it is for me the messages of hope and certainty and love. In the miracles of love and tenderness, I believe. In the guiding wisdom of my heart, I remember. All of my life is the path, the world of good that I remember and live and for the journey of life's bounty before me.
The Lies We Believe 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 56
The Future Is Now The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 55
Celebrate Your Life The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 54
Love Will Always Find You 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 53 Love with a partner and in a relationship in which you never give up honoring what is truly important to you - what truly matters, means never giving up hope for what could be.
What is Sacred Celebration? The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 52
Gentle Perceptions The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 51
Slow Living 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 50
AWAKEN The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 49
When You Feel Triggered, Do This Instead The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 48
Sacred Ground ~ Living Your Heaven on Earth 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 46
May Only Love Remain A Prayer to Begin Each Day in the Alchemy of Forgiveness and Self-Love The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 45
Mindful Awareness of Emotions (DBT) 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 44
The Inner Child I AM The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 43
True 'Letting Go' Looks Like This... 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 41
The WISDOM of Happiness The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 40
What Thoughts Make YOU Smile? 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 39
The Elation of Possibility How Good Can You Feel? The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 38
What Is Modern Love? 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 37
The Defining Moments Of Your Personal Story The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 36
'My true self holds the miracles of possibility ~ each time I remain open to expressing all that I AM.' ~ dzj Affirmations For Living As My True Self 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 35
What Decisions Will Always Honour You? The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 32
How Abuse Informs You 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 31
28 Ways To Live As Love The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 30
Why Did I Have These Experiences? 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 28
Healing Your Inner Child ~ The First Steps ~ The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 28
H a l l e l u j a h The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 26
What Are You Ready To Forgive? 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 25
How To Best Navigate Grief 'ask dorothy' The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 23
A Month Of Self-Nourishment The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 22
A Manifesto Of Peace The WISDOM podcast Season 5 Episode 21
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