Taylor’s Blog

Internal Family Systems (IFS) helps you get to know your inner world in a non-pathologizing way, uncovering a source of healing from within. Feeding Your Demons® (FYD) is a guided visualization process that helps you face emotional challenges and transform them...

A client recently asked me what she could do to not absorb the painful energies of family members when they were projecting negative energies. She has some close family members who exhibit narcissistic and unconscious behaviors. This is really triggering to her young...

The Transformative Power of Nourishing Our Difficult Emotions One of the core principles that can truly transform our relationship with ourselves is the concept of feeding not fighting. When we encounter challenging emotions or patterns within ourselves, our...

What if we are discarding something valuable when we admonish spiritual bypassing wholesale? I’ve been contemplating this paradox for years. I’ve definitely been a culprit of spiritual bypassing—I admittedly prefer peak experiences and moments of ecstasy to the...

I am so blessed to live in a valley where when police sirens start to wail, the coyotes join in. For a moment, I get to hear the similarities between these disparate sounds—the wild and the manufactured, the ancient and the modern, both wailing their particular song...

I made a casual intention a few months ago to officially take a year of not being special. I didn’t make it a strong intention because if I did, that might make me feel too special. What do I mean by a year of not being special? The idea rose when I started to notice...

On Sand Cats, Suffering, and the Self. I’ve been noticing this terror that rises in my chest. It shows up in different flavors, each one equally capable of stopping me in my tracks. The first terror is about writing and teaching. God forbid I don’t say the thing that...