Author: Dr Wolf
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The Eight Limbs of Yoga: An Ancient Path Out of Suffering
An exploration o the profound connection between yoga and trauma recovery, highlighting Patanjali’s Eight Limbs of Yoga as a transformative path. It emphasises the importance of ethical foundations, self-reflection, and mindful presence, presenting yoga as a means to change one’s relationship with suffering and foster healing, love, and connection.
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What Is Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery?
Whenever I tell people that I teach Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery, I am often met with the same question: What‘s that? It is not an easy question to answer, because therapeutic yoga sits somewhere between several different worlds. It isn’t quite a yoga class, at least not in the way most people imagine a…
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Why Reflection is an Essential Part of Healing
More than twenty years ago, during my training, I was introduced to Kolb’s experiential learning cycle, and I have returned to it many times since then, both in my own reflective practice and in my work with clients. It is a simple model, but a profound one. Kolb first set out the model in Experiential…
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You Are Not Your Personality
What if some of the traits we judge in ourselves and others are not fixed personality flaws, but old protective patterns? A compassionate reflection on trauma, behaviour, boundaries, and seeing the human beneath the pattern.
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Tending Our Field
Last month, I wrote about the importance of having a village around us: people who support our healing, nourish our relationships, and help us feel less alone. This month, I want to stay with that theme, but turn towards our own part in it. Because while we cannot create a healthy village on our own,…
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Building a Village
Why Relationships Struggle in Isolation Many couples today are trying to build a life with one person… without the support that used to come from a whole community. This is something that couples therapist, Esther Perel, stresses the importance of creating, when she talks about “building a village.” We don’t just need a partner. We…
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Presence, Alignment, Connection
Much of what matters to me in my work with couples can be understood through three simple qualities: presence, alignment, and connection. Again and again, I see how deeply people long to feel safe in their relationships — safe with their beloved, and safe within their own bodies. When that safety is present, something very…
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A Valentine’s Day Reflection
What hurts most for many people on Valentine’s Day, in my work, are the relational wounds rooted in early experience — and those wounds may be conscious or not. Whether you are single or in relationship, Valentine’s Day can bring excitement, joy, and pleasure, but can just as easily stir anxiety, pain, and disappointment. Often,…
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Relationship as the Path
There are seasons when clarity doesn’t arrive through effort, but through what quietly falls away. After periods of intensity, rupture, or profound relational learning, something simpler can remain — not answers, exactly, but a steadier place to stand. Lately, I’ve been aware that much of what I understand about love, presence, and truth hasn’t come…
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Aspecting Work and Autodrama
In my work with individuals and couples where there is relational trauma, I use somatic healing that employs several embodied, experiential processes for working with relational trauma, addiction, and abusive or adverse experiences that happen across the lifespan from in-utero, through childhood, into adulthood – usually through our relationships with significant others relative to those…