Diane Renz, LPC
Diane Renz, a licensed psychotherapist, founder of Your Gateway to Healing, writer, workshop facilitator, utilizes both her academic background and personal experiences to explore how pain can become our possibility. She currently studies with Dr. Dan Siegel integrating the latest scientific understandings on neuroscience and Mindfulness within her work.
For more information feel free to visit www.yourgatewaytohealing.com.
How to Begin Again: From Wounds to Wisdom
We often take mistakes, defeat, pain as commentary on our worthiness; a mark against us that can never be erased. What if these marks were instead indicators of our wisdom, like the mark of good broken in leather, or the beachside stone beaten by the waves into a polished brilliance?
Why Sleep is So Necessary and in Such Short Supply
In my psychotherapy practice, I have counseled post 40-year-old women with various forms of insomnia (either difficulty getting to sleep or waking in the middle of the night with mind racing unable to go back to sleep for hours), as well as, fitful sleep filled with tossing turning, and, at the extreme end, full PTSD symptoms of nightmares and REM disorders. The process of regulating sleep is not found in a pill. .
Understanding Our Style of Relating When Triggered
Once we begin to understand that our brain/bodies, mind/hearts, are trying to keep us safe, we can then inquire into our memories, find out how relevant they are, and begin the slow journey back to a more compassionate, conscious interaction with our reactiveness. By learning how to cultivate awareness beyond basic memory and survival, we can expand the possibility to relate to our inherent safety, belonging, and connectedness. .
Steps to Healthy Lifestyle Changes
Lifestyle changes begin with setting Intention. If you don’t have an intention, it easy to lose commitment to action. Intention is not a goal but an overarching frame for the “why” of doing something. For example, someone might have a goal of losing weight, but an overarching intention of feeling well, with more vitality for life and relationship, to live a fuller life.
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Part II: Finding Calm in the Chaos
The more you Practice Mindfulness, you can create states of openness, non reaction, non judgment, the ability to witness, label, describe your experience and increase your identity beyond thoughts and emotions, giving yourself a wide pasture in which to roam, where you can begin to choose your response to both your internal and external world.
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Finding Calm in the Chaos
There is so much talk about Mindfulness these days. It has become trendy–this ancient, over 2000 year old practice of attuning to the present moment. It is like the difference between two motivations for going on a diet: making a real lifestyle change that is fueled by love of yourself versus one that is based on rejection and fear of who you have become.
