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First time to IA?

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What’s an IA Session?

Ahhh – Stress!  
You have enough… but do you really know what it is?

Stress is the body’s best effort to accommodate your conflicting intentions:

• “I have to, but I can’t”
• “If I don’t, they’ll be mad”
• “I’ll be punished, but I still want to”

These were all laid down as children, complicated by adolescence and stressful now! 

For many of us, the holidays just passed brought into sharp focus the contrasts between our inner and outer worlds.

• People, rituals and memories reenacted and absent
• Environments re-entered and carried around with us
• Confusion between present wants and passed needs

All help to drowned out our sense of Self. And they can still give raise to equally powerful and expansive changes which seem appropriate as the new year is upon us.

… began as your “Infant’s Overwhelm”.  

A great many of us share an urgent need to somehow make things better in the world – but the price of doing so is feeling what isn’t working, appropriately named “compassion fatigue”.  

While an infant, nearly everything is intense, and often too much so.  A necessary part of growth and adaptation is learning to selectively filter, numb out or even shut down – exactly what cannot be done when developing compassion as an adult.