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$40-100/hr sliding scale but I never turn anyone away for financial reasons 🦋. I have developed coursework over 12 workshops on topics ranging from self-love to shadow work, Taoism, creative expression, grounded spirituality, ritual, somatic embodiment practices, and more for trauma recovery. Most importantly, I put my heart and soul into helping each of my clients heal and I focus on real, human connection. I have bipolar 1 and C-PTSD and my credential is my lived experience. I will help you reclaim your story. Email me for details: p2collective@protonmail.com

Solar Plexus Activity #4: Now we're going to anchor the psychological work with symbolic anchors to keep the energy active in our daily environment. We will create a focal point for our personal power as a way of visualizing the fire in our bellies. Keep a symbolic stone on your desk or in your pocket to represent this center. A yellow gemstone like Topaz is excellent for channeling Solar Plexus energy, willpower, and intention. Alternatively, a stone like Dalmatian Jasper can be used to break down psychological barriers and encourage a sense of playfulness and determination while you work. If you don't own an appropriate gem and have no means of getting one, grab a blank page and draw or color a brilliant, multi-layered sun using yellows, golds, and bright oranges. Inside the center of the sun, write the new name or identity you claimed in Activity #2. When you feel a moment of self-doubt or a craving driven by a feeling of powerlessness, physically place your hand over your stomach (the Solar Plexus), look at your visual anchor, and take three sharp, energizing breaths.

Found these yoga poses for your chakras. Here’s one for the heart chakra 🧘‍♀️

Step into The Forest That Eats Masks 🌲🖤✨ 🗓️ 7 pm EST on Sat May 23 In this trauma-informed workshop by The Purple Phoenix Collective, we’ll gently explore the parts of ourselves that learned to wear masks in order to survive. Through guided meditation, creativity, ritual, discussion, and somatic healing practices, we’ll begin reconnecting to the authentic self beneath the performance, fear, numbness, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and survival roles. Together, we will: 🕯️ Journey through a guided visualization called The Forest That Eats Masks 🐺 Meet a spirit guide who invites us to listen inward for our “True Name” 🎭 Reflect on the masks we’ve worn and why they protected us ✍️ Write a poem about our authentic selves (or create artwork instead) 🌿 Practice grounding rituals for healing and reconnection 🫀 Learn simple somatic tools to help us feel safer and more present in our bodies 💬 Share discussion in a supportive, laid-back, trauma-informed space You do not need to be “healed,” artistic, spiritual, or experienced to participate. You are welcome exactly as you are. The Purple Phoenix Collective is a creative healing community for trauma survivors centered around symbolism, creativity, nervous system healing, nature, storytelling, ritual, and authentic connection. Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87309458480

How can I stop fighting with my partner? You keep fighting yourself. The fights usually aren’t about what’s happening on the surface. They’re about the gap between reality and the picture in your head of how things “should” go. How they should respond. How the conversation should unfold. How love should feel. When reality breaks the script, you tense up. Push back. Try to regain certainty. Sometimes control disguises itself as care. You start treating your partner’s moods, reactions, distance, or unpredictability as threats instead of experiences to move through together. And the harder you try to manage the outcome, the more trapped both people feel. The brave move isn’t perfect communication. It’s letting go of the script entirely. Stop rehearsing your point. Stop predicting their response. See what actually happens when you allow the moment to be real instead of controlled. What should you do? • Before a difficult conversation, ask yourself: “What outcome am I trying to force?” • When tension rises, pause for 10 seconds before reacting. • Break one numbing habit after conflict. Stay present instead. • Ask one genuine question without trying to prove a point. • At the end of the week, tell your partner one thing they did that surprised you in a good way.

Remarkably Bright Creatures is such a beautiful film 🥺🥰

Is there a musical instrument or art form that that is used more to express or connect with spirituality?

Not everyone heals by sitting perfectly still and “thinking positive.” 🔥 Sometimes healing looks like: 🖋️ writing poetry at 2am 🌲 wandering through the woods trying to remember who you are 🫀 learning your nervous system isn’t your enemy 🎭 meeting the hidden parts of yourself 🕯️ creating rituals that make you feel human again 🌊 turning chaos into art, meaning, movement, and truth My 1:1 trauma-informed coaching blends: ✨ creative expression ✨ symbolism & personal mythology ✨ somatic and nervous system practices ✨ guided visualizations & inner world exploration ✨ parts work & shadow work ✨ spirituality, nature, storytelling, and authentic self-reclamation This isn’t about becoming “perfect.” It’s about becoming real. 🐦‍🔥 I live with C-PTSD and bipolar 1 disorder. I bring wisdom from lived experience alongside training and years of deep inner work. I know what it’s like to feel fragmented, overwhelmed, disconnected from yourself, and desperate to find meaning inside the chaos. The space I create is not clinical, cold, or one-size-fits-all. It’s human. ☯️ If you feel like you’ve lost yourself somewhere along the way… maybe we can help you find your way back. DM me for more info 💜 or email me at p2collective@protonmail.com. Also check out our free support circles and donation-only workshops every Saturday! 🦋 Kristina

Solar Plexus Activity #3: The Solar Plexus requires us to step out of passivity and into agency. This means taking control of something in your life that you have been avoiding. We will be tackling one delayed responsibility. Pick one administrative or life task that has been hanging over your head. It should be something that requires you to assert yourself or organize your future—like updating a resume, making a difficult phone call, paying a specific bill, or officially planning a future project you’ve been putting off. Break it down into three actionable steps and execute step one immediately. Notice how the heat of taking action burns away the heavy, stagnant feeling of dread. You are reclaiming your power over your environment!

Free support circle at 7 pm EST tonight (May 16) ☯️ We’re having an impromptu support circle tonight and everyone is welcome to attend 💜💜💜 We’ll do check-is, general sharing and support, and maybe learn some somatic practices, talk about reconnecting with our authentic selves, and possibly a guided meditation if that’s the vibe. Hope to see you all!!! 🦋 https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81847844002m

Solar Plexus Activity #2 Compulsive patterns thrive on rigid, limiting labels. To break free from old cycles, we must intentionally design the persona we are stepping into. This requires exploring the deep symbolism and personal mythology of how we each define our true self. We are not a reflection of our historical behaviors; we are the active authors of our upcoming chapters. Write down every single disempowering label or self-critical narrative you adopted while caught in the cycle of dependency (e.g., I am broken, I am chaotic, I am a hostage to my habits, I am untrustworthy). Then sever the connection using a bold black marker to heavily strike through each phrase, visually and symbolically breaking up (with) those outdated definitions.Inentionally construct your upgraded identity. Look into the deep symbolism, historical meanings, or specific energetic archetypes that strongly resonate with your inner self. (Are you stepping into the frequency of the Seeker? The Creator? The Sovereign?) Then create three distinct, present-tense "I AM" affirmations that align with this new you. To take things one step further, embed this identity into your daily routine. Update a frequently used digital password, redesign your phone's lock screen, or rename your daily alarm to reflect your chosen archetype. This forces you to actively interface with your new direction multiple times a day.

I hope everyone has a blessed night with sweet dreams and may the dieties protect you 💗🌙☯️

I feel everything so deeply that sometimes it feels like my emotions are running the show. Like my moods become the weather system I live inside of. For a long time, I thought my emotions were my identity. If I felt abandoned, I became abandonment. If I felt fear, I became fear. If I felt grief, it swallowed the whole sky. But healing is teaching me something different. Emotions are signals. Messengers. Waves moving through the nervous system. They are real, important, and worthy of being honored… but they are not permanent definitions of who I am. I don’t have to drown in every feeling that visits me. I can sit beside it. Listen to it. Learn from it. And let it move through like waves in the ocean—rising, crashing, receding. The ocean is still the ocean, even during a storm. So am I. 🖤🌊

Starting doing a morning ritual with meditation and cleansing myself with candles and crystals and my shifts at work have been 1,000x smoother. Customers are nice to me, the day goes by quick. It’s amazing what positive energy can do for you 💗💗💗☀️

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Simply naming how you feel is a powerful practice. It helps me realize that beneath my feelings and emotions, there’s a deeper observer, a loving awareness that witnesses me. It anchors me in the moment.

Solar Plexus Activity #1: Having a "weak" will is not a character flaw; it is a sign of mental fatigue. Think of your self-discipline like a battery that has been drained. You wouldn't expect a dead phone to power a cinema-sized screen; you plug it in and let it reach a 5% charge before you even turn it on. In the same way, you don't heal a fractured will by attempting a marathon; you begin with a single, deliberate step. Every small agreement you honor with yourself acts as a high-value deposit into your personal "trust account. we will be documenting "micro-wins"—tiny, non-debatable ations performed daily. Use your dedicated chakra journal or a section in your preferred digital outliner or task management app. Label this area specifically for this developmental module. Choose one "low-stakes" action to perform daily that is entirely unrelated to your recovery or addiction. (e.g. sraightening your pillows, drinking 8 ounces of water, reading exactly one paragraph of a book, doing two minutes of stretching, etc) Prioritize that "Check-Mark": Be sure to mark the task as complete every single day. Resist the urge to make the task harder or longer for now. Your objective is to build a perfect record of "keeping your word," regardless of how small the task feels. Use the following affirmation in your log: "I committed to [Task] today, and I followed through. I am proving to myself that my word is a bond I can rely on."

Anyone watched the series Good Omens?

Found this this & thought I’d share it 💜💙💚🧡❤️