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Spring Gardening

May 2, 2022

In my garden this year the weeds are plentiful.  Especially one kind of weed that is very satisfying to find and pull out.  It is wide and can spread out its lush and large tendrils for several feet in all directions but at its base is a small ball and if you are lucky and pull it out just right you get the very deep central small single minuscule little root.  I am always amazed that such a small yet tenacious root can give rise to such a prolific plant.  Buckets of this weed come out of my garden and into the compost.  A Taproot, as it is called, turns out is the first root to appear from the seed and remains the central root of the plant.

I love this as a metaphor.

While we may, in our lives, spread out in many directions with flashy, fleshy greenery we have one central root to our lives and it has always been true.  In the Pathwork this is called our Soul Task.  The promise is that finding this task and staying true to it is the secret to a satisfying life.  Recently, my husband Tom found a letter that I wrote him in 1988.  We had been married for 7 years and I was about to turn 35.  In the letter I say that I  feel like I have checked important boxes in my life: kids, self employment and married for life.  While all this is great I go on in the letter to answer a question Tom has asked me the week before.  He asked, “Do you think we will ever make the Big Time.”  He is  referring our fledgling technology business at the time. Reading it all these years later, I am pretty astonished at my answer .  I write, “I think we will — but on a different track than what we are on now.  I think the contribution we can really make is to share with others who we are and how we are and that is our most marketable product!”  I go on to say that I am clear I can only keep going in this business for two more years….

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Filed Under: Attachment, Couples, Pathwork, Self Exploration, Trauma, Uncategorized

New Workshop: Who’s Afraid?

December 1, 2021

Recognizing and trusting basic goodness does not arise through thinking. Rather, as we step out of our thoughts (again and again) and bring a gentle, kind, and clear presence to life here and now, we experience that essence for ourselves.

from Tara Brach’s New Book Trusting The Gold

As we step into the present moment fear vanishes and we are left with true abundance – Gold

An Experiential Workshop

Friday, January 7th 2:00-5:00 pm EST

On Zoom

For those of us with histories of trauma – we can be less resilient and more caught in fear cycles – this can be overcome!

Price is $35.00 per person payable on PayPal or Zelle

If there is interest, this class may result in an on-going monthly process group on Friday afternoons

To Register email Wendy at whubbard0@gmail.com

Register soon – class is limited to 16 people

Filed Under: Pathwork, Trauma, WORKSHOPS

The You AND Me Universe

September 18, 2021

Join me in an exploration of the Me AND You Universe, a concept introduced to me eight years ago by Diane Poole Heller.  She described an interpersonal Me AND You universe; I have found that idea applies also to our intra-personal and transpersonal experience.

In one of her modules of her DARe Training, Diane teaches about how the Me AND You Universe contrasts with the Me OR You Universe.  She calls each state of mind a universe because they are a lived reality that is exclusive of other realities in a person’s experience.  Most of us live in the You OR Me Universe.  Unfortunately, our early attachment experiences lead us to the conclusion that we can have either ourselves or the other, me or you. In Pathwork terms we might call this a Main Image.  It’s a belief that “if I have you, then I lose myself, and if I have me, I lose you.”  This is a duality of consciousness or psychological splitting which is very painful.  The way this often shows up for me is that I am loving being with you, but also can’t wait for some “quiet time”.  Then when I am alone and have this “quiet time” I am missing being with you.  Either way there is a tinge of dissatisfaction and a lack of wholeness.

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Filed Under: Attachment, Pathwork, Relationship, Self Exploration, Trauma

A Japanese Lesson In Sorrow and Joy

July 20, 2021

切ない (Setsunai): When You Need a Word to Hold Both Sorrow and Joy

My last blog post was back in March. Tom and I had begun an intensive teaching assignment with the Pathwork In Japan. On July 2nd we completed our last teaching module.  It was very rewarding and also challenging,  always wondering what might be lost in translation.

I am now back to writing and it seems fitting that I would begin a new blog with a uniquely Japanese concept discussed in the New York Times and passed along to me by a dear friend. It is one of those wonderful words in another language with no counterpart in English. The word is Setsunai.

Setsunai implies something once bright, now faded. It is the painful twinge at the edge of a memory, the joy in the knowledge that everything is temporary. Perhaps, then implicit in setsunai is the way the passage of time eventually draws a thin line of blood, of pain, across even the roundest, fullest happiness.

I have noticed lately that most people I work with hate sadness. They will do anything rather than feel it.  I honor this fear.  Sadness can be a bellwether for depression and depression is scary.  But sadness is not depression. Sadness is a feeling and depression is a numbness.  When I invite myself and others into sadness it always holds a warmth that expands and begins to actually feel quite good!

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Filed Under: Attachment, Couples, Pathwork, Relationship, Self Exploration

Emerging from the Pandemic

March 24, 2021

Feeling Grief, Finding Meaning, Creating New Possibilities

with Wendy and Tom Hubbard
June 11-13, 2021
Zoom Platform

Cost: $265.00

Sponsored by Pathwork Vermont

How have we navigated the fear, loss, and fragility we have personally and collectively felt during this challenging year of the Pandemic?  What hidden treasures have been revealed as we have lost so much in the material world?  What patterns and values will be honored or left behind?  And how do we continue to live with the uncertainty ahead?

Together as we emerge from the darkness of the pandemic into the light of new possibilities, we will alchemize the misfortune into creative grist.  We will use the practical teachings of the Pathwork to help unlock the potential that lies within each of us and renew our spiritual journey.

To receive the full flyer including reading and preparation, and ask any questions please contact Isabelle Meulnet: Isabelle@pathworkvermont.org or 802-279-9144 or Wendy Hubbard: whubbard0@gmail.com

Reserve your space now by paying in full or with a $100 deposit by June 1st  https://pathworkvermont.org/workshops 

apply a $25.00 discount if you register before May 11th

Filed Under: Pathwork, Self Exploration, WORKSHOPS

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Wendy Hubbard, M.Ed., SEP, is a Pathwork Helper and Somatic Experiencing (SE) Practitioner. She has studied and practiced the Pathwork® for 25 years and SE for 10 years. She is also certified in Hellinger Family Constellation Work and Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning Experience (DARe). This rich mix of modalities and trainings informs her work and enables her to bring hope and healing to her clients. She provides individual and couples sessions and leads therapeutic groups and trainings, often with her husband, Pathwork Helper Tom Hubbard.

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