Heather Davies – Phoenix Thriving, PLLC

New Neural Networks, Self-compassion & the Gift of Mentorship

May 14, 2018Heather DaviesGrowth and Transformationchange, growth, mentorship, neural networks, self-compassion, wrens

Well, the flowering season is surely upon us and, with it, many reminders of the natural biological and energetic processes we are all subject to when it comes to metabolizing change and beginning to lay down the new neural networks of integration. These sweet little wren fledglings drove this home to me as, after 12…

Navigating a Tectonic Plate Shift: Body & Sensory Resources for Shifting Ground

Nov 14, 2016Heather DaviesGrowth and Transformationarchetypes, body reconnection, grief, Mr. Rogers, tectonic plate shift

As I bore witness to and experienced within my own being the events of last week’s election and the days following it, the archetypes that surfaced for me within this collective happening were those of stillbirth and what I have historically termed a “tectonic plate shift” or, more simply, an earthquake. As with any significant…

Dancing with the Trickster

Aug 23, 2012Heather Davies4 CommentsGrowth and Transformationarchetypes, Baubo, Cheshire Cat, Coyote, soul journey, Trickster

One of the more playful, albeit unpredictable, archetypes who routinely shows itself in many a process of transformation is that of the Trickster…the Divine Fool who often uses the surprise of spontaneity coupled with the wisdom of riddles, puns and irreverent humor to knock us off balance such that we are able to gain a…

The Inner Landscape

Jun 12, 2012Heather Davies12 CommentsGrowth and Transformation, Uncategorizedinner landscape, Shamanism, soul evolution, soul life

As we follow the thread of our soul-life through its own unique evolutionary pattern, we begin to find that different periods of growth often bring inner exploration and excavation within new physical landscapes. For example, we may spend several weeks, months, or even years working within a forest motif internally only to find ourselves thrust…

Shedding Skin

Apr 29, 2012Heather Davies147 CommentsGrowth and TransformationGrowth Spiral, Shamanic Path, Snake Medicine

When we learn to more consciously engage our own growth spiral, one of the phases that tends to occur rather cyclically is that of “shedding skin.” This is a period that generally precludes what I refer to as a “warp jump” (or major shift) in manifested experience and is one of the great gifts that…