Tag: resilience

Wild Belize Retreat

SOLD OUT Wild Belize Women’s Retreat

Adventure beyond your borders. Join us for a Resiliency Field Trip of a lifetime as we claim our intentions for the new year. We will begin in the heart of the Belizean…

Stress Resilience & Longevity by Em Capito, LCSW, MBA, E-RYT

On Stress Resilience & Longevity

If we continually take a big picture look at the malleable precursors for aging-related symptoms and mortality, inflammation shows up over and over again…which leads us to resilience, or how we manage…

Madrone Tree in Nicaragua, Em Capito, LCSW

On Communing with Trees: Mother Madrone

This is the story of a surprising relationship with a tree. We are surrounded by abundance and connection, if we just step out into nature and open our hearts. On April 1st,…

Em Capito, LCSW, MBA On Inquiring Within 20 Questions to Ask at the New Year

On Inquiring Within (20 Questions to Ask at the New Year)

In so many ways, we do our best to plan given current assumptions, hopes and fears. Invariably, the actual unfolding of our lives takes us in unexpected directions. Last weekend, I hiked…

On the purpose of intuition by Em Capito, LCSW

On the Purpose of Intuition

What is the purpose of those gut feelings and synchronous moments we call intuition? As children, dependent on external love for our survival, we developed creative tactics. I was a hero child…

Boundaries & Open Hearts by Em Capito, LCSW

On Boundaries & Opening Our Hearts

In our relationships, we must often walk in a vast gray area of unknowability.​ Even within ourselves, there are many times when we cannot discern intuition from fear. Sometimes we simply must embrace uncertainty…

On the Power of Place by Em Capito, LCSW

On the Power of Sanctuary

“It seems as if the right words can come only out of the perfect space of a place you love.” – Ellen Meloy, The Anthropology of Turquoise This last weekend, my heart…

Self-reflection An honest look in the mirror

On Self-Reflection

“Oops! That’s actually mine.” Being a therapist presents a unique opportunity to continuously see myself within my clients’ stories and take my own medicine. It’s not about perfection – for any of…

Falling from Above Em Capito, LCSW

On Skydiving as a Resiliency Field Trip

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt In July, a group of women came together for the Wild Women Retreat in Big Cottonwood Canyon. At the end of…

Weekly invitations into self and community, every Friday: