JOCELYN JACKS KAHN
Certified Focusing Trainer
It may feel as if your
stuck and painful places
are getting in your way ~
In reality, they're showing you your way forward
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I guide spiritually oriented people in
transforming their painful life patterns
into their personal pathways to
lives of depth and meaning
Maybe this sounds familiar:
Something in your life feels painfully stuck.
And no matter what you do, it doesn't
actually shift.
You may sense that there’s something deeper here... but you can’t quite reach it.
So… what gets in the way?
There’s a dynamic at work that keeps our feeling of stuck in place:
When something difficult happens
that we can’t fully process at the time,
the problem doesn’t just disappear.
The body protects us from pain
that we don’t have the resources to handle in the moment
by constricting around the uncomfortable experience
in order to keep it out of awareness.
But that discomfort lives on in the body,
still here,
deep inside,
quietly shaping our life
below the surface.
This makes our inability to move forward
feel strangely mysterious.
How does this work help?
We learn how to stop getting lost
in the painful place
or endlessly trying to get rid of it.
Instead... we pause.
And with a sense of friendly curiosity,
we allow our sense of awareness
to turn toward what's here....
and gently rest there.
Just keeping it company.
Little by little, within this atmosphere
of spaciousness,
the constriction loosens.
What had been stuck and stagnant
begins to relax...
to open...
to rediscover its flow.
If something here resonates,
I invite you to stay in touch.
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