This week has been a bit of a whirlwind for me. One week ago I experienced the deepest processing I've ever had during a therapy session. I feel immensely grateful that my internal work is a continuing process of forever excavation. It ALWAYS feels as if I have really reached the core this time and then *surprise!* there's yet another layer, another layer, another layer. And every layer has arms that reach out and touch all the other layers both into future Kathryns and back, back to my earliest memories, back to my birth, back to previous lifetimes. It's not exactly a peeling away process so much as it is an integration process. I cannot say enough about the wonders of hakomi psychotherapy! Hakomi has been a part of my life for the last 12 years in one way or another, including a year long training I finished in last December. If you plan to dive deeply into work with poisonous plants I highly, highly recommend you find yourself some kind of body-centererd psychotherapist, breathwork facilitator, or anyone who understands that trauma is stored in the body and that you are already whole, there is nothing wrong with you, nothing to fix.

Mars has been on top of my natal Mars the last few days (my natal Mars is in Aries retrograde) and wowza - this must be what it feels like to be an extrovert. It was exactly conjunct the day I had my first of the Poisonous Plant Medicine classes at Anima Mundi and I don't think I stopped talking for a solid 5 hours (not my normal mode of operation fyi.) It was such a joy to be in that space and I am really looking forward to our future meetings :) If you are in Brooklyn, you can still drop-in to any of the classes!

The first Poisonous Plant Medicine online group meets this Sunday! That class is completely sold out. Group 2 is open and there are still 4 spaces available, including 1 payment plan spot. If you're interested in the payment plan spot please send me an email at k.solie@me.com

Pictured above is a dried Brugmansia flower I recently spotted at the Roger Williams botanical gardens in Providence. Brugmansia is a spectacular plant that we will discuss in week 3 & 4 of the series.