Dr. Elisabeth Crim www.MoonstoneCenter.com Syncing with Nature

The Healer's Life!

Newsletter of Dr. Elisabeth Crim and Moonstone Center

Psychotherapy ~ Wellness ~ Professional Development

May 16, 2014

The Healers Life! Syncing with Nature - Dr. Elisabeth Crim & Moonstone Center

Greetings Fellow Healer,

It has been beautiful, HOT! but Beautiful the last several days and actually quite often this month. Across our state, country, hemisphere and world, the seasons and the weather they bring are changing. Each aspect of nature vibrates and brings a different energy with it as it is ever morphing. It is easy to become so focused on our busy lives that include our schedule of patients or clients, our care, provision, and nurture of our children and families and/or older parents that we as Healers and Health Care Providers can lose sight of the outward changes in nature that the steady shifts of time and space both allow and bring into our lives. Nature moves in powerful currents of seasons, each with its own energy and seeming character.

The Healer's Life! focus this months is "Syncing with Nature!" Dictionary.com's definition of "Sync" as a verb is "to synchronize or harmonize. As a noun, "Sync" means harmony or harmonious relationship. We also now use the term, "sync" to refer to getting all of our information from various technical devices to show up consistently within each device and location we use or find ourselves in. I titled this month's newsletter, "Syncing with Nature" after I recorded the video above. While outside I felt the intense heat on my skin, heard the ocean rolling loudly in the background, and saw the powerful sun-light in my eyes. I was and have been affected before, during and since by that powerful energy that nature provides. It led me consider how powerful it would be in our own holistic, mind-body-spirit-relational lives to also sync or harmonize with nature as we live fully within each setting or situation we find ourselves in. Syncing ourselves with nature, paying attention to the month, the day, the year, the season we find ourselves living in in this moment! To attend to the needs within and without that this attention invites into our consciousness.

To live our lives in a harmonious relationship internally and externally with nature's effecting and vibrating energy seems a key piece to the balance and integration we seek as health and wellness providers. How can we truly attend to mind, body, spirit, and relationship, if we are not also attending to nature, climate, and environment?

So my invitation to you today - Go outside and take your shoes off and feel the grass, dirt, sand, or even pavement beneath your naked feet! Let the sensation move from the soles of your feet to the soul of your being. Breath in the air, notice the temperature on your skin. Notice what emotions come up. See if you realize that it is May in 2014. Ask yourself, "what do I need now, today, this month, this summer?" What do I need to start planning now to meet that need? Then return to the sensation of grass under your feet...let the barefoot child within dance and smile and run free - if only for a minute or two!

As always, Thank you for journeying with me through the The Healer's Life!,

various Professional ListServs and out in the community when I speak, write, or network.

Keep reading below and on the sidebar for upcoming events!

Until next month,

Blessings and Peace,

Elisabeth and the Moonstone Center Team

Join me!

International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT)

Symposium on Yoga Therapy and Research

(SYTAR) 2014

June 5-8, 2014

Austin, TX

Dr. Elisabeth Crim Presents

Common Interest Community (CIC) Presentation:

Developing Virtual Integrative Health and Wellness Centers

For Info & To Register

ONE MORE THING!

What if you can't get outside easily?

What if you don't have open nature readily available to you?

In addition to the importance of syncing with your actual own nature environment, we know that experiencing nature in and of itself can have relaxing and restorative effects.

Check out Virtual Nature Environments for Health on the YouTube Channel: NatureVideo

Virtual Environments for Health

Moonstone Center Offerings

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Create an In-House Training for Your Organization's Clinical, Medical, or Educational staff!

We can custom tailor a CE, CEU, or CME level training to meet your organization's needs. See Topics Below!

Who can we provide training for?

Clinicians, Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Educators, Nurses, Physicians, Spiritual Directors/Ministers, Yoga Teachers/Therapists, Acupuncturists, Chiropractors, Alcohol and Drug Treatment Counselors! Mental Health Agencies, Universities, Schools, Hospitals, Clinics...

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I approach each professional with whom I consult from an inter-subjective approach, honoring both of our sets of knowledge, experience, and passion. I offer consultation within a context of safety and compassion toward self with a healthy dose of humor where possible! We are merely human beings who happen to be healers of other human beings on this journey called Life! I offer a space to safely explore what being a therapist, or other type of healing professional means to you and how to better assure you are going forward safely (emotionally, mentally, relationally, and yes spiritually and physically) for yourself and for those you are treating. I do this from a clinical perspective that is grounded in an inter-subjective and holistic psychodynamic approach to individuals and relationships. Give me a call...Let's have some fun together while we help you grow and heal and provide effective healing to others in your professional life journey!

I offer consultation via:

Individual Consultation.
Group Consultation.
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Contact me or call: 310.371.2800 if you want to schedule an individual session or if you want to form a group of your trusted colleagues for me to join as consultant. I am putting out a call to form a Therapist-Centered Consultation Group at this time.

Restoring the Healer

Yoga Therapy and Psychotherapy

Consultation Group Workshop

With Elisabeth Crim, PhD, Licensed Psychologist, Certified Relax and Renew Yoga Trainer

and Simone Marke't, Certified Yoga Therapist

Four 1.5 Hour Sessions - 6 CEUs(Psychologists, MFTs, LCSWs)

Small Group - Limited Space

Incorporating Restorative Yoga, Group Discussion, Clinical Case Consultation

FORMING NOW to start in August, 2014.

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Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious Trauma, and Somatic Transference:

Identification, Prevention, Intervention - Restoring the Healer

Compassion Fatigue, Vicarious and Secondary Trauma, Burnout
Recognition, Prevention, Intervention, Restoration
Neuro-Psycho-Physiology of Attachment, Somatic Transference and Compassion Fatigue
Neuro-Psycho-Physiology of Intervention, Prevention, Restoration of Health Care Providers
Yoga as Intervention

Dancing the Transference: Transference, Counter-Transference, Somatic Transference, Spiritual Transference - Honoring the Relationship Between Health Care Provider/Educator and Patient/Student

Can be adapted for Your Professional Organization and Staff!

Psychologist, LMFT, LCSW, LPC, LMHP, Psychiatrist, Teacher, Educator, Spiritual Director, Sponsor, Yoga Therapist, Chiropractor, Licensed Acupuncturist, Nurse, Medical Doctor, Clergy...

Transference: Personality/Attachment Disorders
Transference: Couples
Transference: Parents
Transference: Fellow Treatment Team Members
Somatic Transference: The Body's Process in Psychotherapy
Spiritual Transference: The Spiritual Process in Relationship

Inter-Professional Treatment Teams: The Power of Collaborative Treatment Teaming

Integrative Care
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Holistic Care
Collaborative Treatment
Multi-Disciplinary Teams
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Settings: Outpatient, Inpatient, Day Treatment, Partial Hospital, Intensive Outpatient, Residential
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Holistic, Integrated Mind-Body-Spirit-Relational Healing: Collaborative Treatment Teaming Between Conventional & Complementary-Alternative Therapies

Integrative and Holistic Mental Health Treatment
Yoga Therapy, Acupuncture, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Other Modalities

Dr Elisabeth Crim www.moonstonecenter.com

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The Power of Attending to Professional Identity and Clinical or Educational Case Consciousness

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HAPPENING NOW!

FORMING Now!

Restoring the Healer Consultation Group

Aug-Nov, 2014

4 Sessions: 8 CEUs

Psychologists, MFTs, LCSWs

with

Dr. Elisabeth Crim Simone Marke't

INFO & EXPRESS INTEREST CLICK HERE

Awakening Clinical Intuition

Saturday Workshop Series

Terry Marks Tarlow, PhD

30 CEs

Psychologists, MFTs, LCSWs

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www.MarksTarlow.com

THE POWER of

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CONSULTATION!

INDIVIDUAL

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The Healer's Life

Youtube Videos

Channel: Elisabeth Crim

Smart Creative Women

Web TV Show

"Dr Elisabeth Crim on Listening to Yourself and Finding the Right

Flow for Your Life!"

Interview with Monica Lee,

Artist and WebTVHost

Smart Creative Women

Web TV Show

WEB RADIO Interview with Dr. Crim

by Dr. Carol Francis

TOPIC: Treatment for Mind-Body-Emotions

Book Review:

Clinical Intuition: The Neurobiology

of Embodied Response by Terry Marks-Tarlow

Self Care Resources

SPIRITUALITY

Attend your Local Spiritual Community

Church, Temple, or Meditation or Yoga Studio

(Ask a friend, colleague or Google if you don't know where)

Mind-Body-Spirit:

The NeuroPsychotherapist

Marianne Williamson

Wayne Dyer

Thich Nhat Hanh

Losang Samten

Himalayan Institute

Yoga International

Erich Schiffmann

Your Local Farmer's Market

Joel Osteen

For Women:

Monica Lee

www.SmartCreativeWomen.com

Sue Patton Thoele

The Woman's Book of Soul: Meditations for Courage,

Confidence, and Spirit

For Men:

Tom McGee,

Healing the Boy,

Strengthening the Man

Yoga for Men, Women, Children:

Los Angeles South Bay Yoga:

Simone Marke't,

Yoga Therapist, Yoga Teacher, Yoga Teacher Trainer

Harmony Yoga

Redondo Bch/Hermosa Bch, CA

Lyfe Yoga Center

Hermosa Beach, CA

Internationally located

Exhale Yoga and Spa

USA Major Cities and Abroad

Google Search

"Yoga Studio"

in Your Local Community

Yoga Class Tips:

If you are new to Yoga: Attend a Beginner to Level 1 class only and tell the instructor you are new to yoga.
ALWAYS with a new instructor or a new class: Tell the Instructor your level of experience.
If you experience PAIN: STOP! ALWAYS tell the instructor if you experience any pain.
Try a Gentle or Restorative Class.
Try a Flow Class.
Experiment with types and schools of yoga: Hatha, Iyengar, Viniyoga, etc.
Read about all 8 limbs of Yoga.