Kelly Powers Therapy

A Stellar Cairn

The journey of the Artemis II has captured humanity’s heart for multiple reasons. But this moment resonates with the most tender human experience, grief.

In between sessions and class prep, my heart continues to gravitate to this scene. It is flooding the feeds, affirming that we are hungry for reminders of compassionate connection.

What an honor to be able to bear witness to this stellar cairn.

A great addition to our community!

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Pine Rest Christian Mental Health Services celebrated the opening of its $98 million Pediatric Center of Behavioral Health, a major expansion aimed at increasing access to mental health care for children and teens across Michigan.

“Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.” - C.G. Jung

Before I stepped into full time private practice, my career was working in higher education. I’ve always loved teaching and mentoring, being around curious minds. So it’s been an honor to join the teaching staff at Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling this semester. As an adjunct professor, I’m teaching a course on crisis, trauma and grief. Getting to explore the work of Judith Herman, Janina Fisher, Deb Dana, Dan Siegel, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, Francis Weller, Mary Frances-O’Connor is heartening. The compassionate energy these students embody tethers me to hope, as our world needs wise souls showing up in wounded spaces.

If you’re looking to step into the vocation of counseling I highly recommend the program my friend and Elizabeth Pennock have created at WTS.

I highly recommend joining my friend April Kaiserlian LMSW Therapy Mindfulness of Emotions workshop this October. April is a wise and engaging guide who inspires me to have a more expansive understanding of emotions.

#embrace #love Steady. Study. Shape. This is the framework I will be using for my emotions workshop on Saturday, October 11 at Kula Yoga. • We will begin by steadying in the present moment as well as in our innate capacity for wakefulness which may be another word for love. Instead of approaching ourselves as projects to be fixed we approach ourselves as already loved. This tends to be the hardest part of practice because we often relate to ourselves in such a critical way. • Rumi's words beautifully encapsulate the approach we will take to steadying ourselves in the present moment: "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it, and embrace them.” • Let’s practice together! Join me on Saturday, October 11, 11-3 pm for my 4-hour Mindfulness of Emotions workshop at Kula Yoga: https://www.kulagr.com/events • Website for mindfulness-based individual and couples psychotherapy information: www.aprilkaiserlian.com • #psychotherapy #creativity #contemplation #compassion #mindfulness #emotions #pain #healing #presence #wisdom #imagination #trust #art #action #connection #advocacy #equality #justice #earth #people #witness #liberation

When we see grief isn't something to "fix", but with compassionate tending, it is alchemized into a beautiful aspect of being human.

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