Licia’s Blog
The Collective Brain: We Are One
We all want to be individuals, to stand out, to be unique. We ARE unique; however, relationships are at the heart of our development. Our interpersonal interactions shape our brains, our perspectives, and the way we think. Both the adaptive and maladaptive...
What is “Mother”? excerpt 3 from I Am Her Daughter
“The woman I needed to call my mother was silenced before I was born.” –Adrienne Rich From Merriam Webster dictionary: 1moth·er noun ˈmə-thər 1a : a female parent b (1) : a woman in authority; specifically : the superior of a religious community of women (2) : an...
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Psychotherapy…..It’s Just The Way I Am
Because neuroscience has shown us that from birth our experiences wire us to react a certain way to our interpersonal interactions, we find ourselves saying “that’s just the way I am”. Have you ever had someone tell you, “You’ll have to accept me for the way I am....
Solstice Blessings
It's Winter in the Northern Hemisphere... SOLSTICE LETTER 2014 Dear Fellow Travelers,May this Solstice Greeting find you well! Today is the day of the longest night in the northern hemisphere of our sweet planet, inviting us to curl up next to the fire and...
Broken Open
I just completed a 4000 thousand-mile, one month long road trip for my The Frontier Inside (tm) western tour. It was an extraordinary, adventure and love-filled experience of women, wisdom and landscape. It began as a dream to host a women's retreat in Tucson; once I...
The Cherished Daughter…excerpt 2 from I Am Her Daughter
~excerpted from the Introduction of I Am Her Daughter, copyright Licia Berry 2014, all rights reserved I Am Her Daughter is an experiential guide to mend the relationship between us and our selves, through the miracle of self love. The cherished daughter. Is this a...
She’s In It for the Long Haul (or, the Virtues of Rest)
"It's okay to be tired." -Gloria Steinem, age 80 at Ghost Ranch, 2014 She's 31 years ahead of me, and at 80 years of age, a seemingly tireless crusader for women's equality in the world. But when I spent 4 days in her company at the Wisdom Sharing Retreat at Ghost...
The Road Trip : Stepping Forward into the Unknown
Road trips are a thing of beauty. Since I was very young (I'm told my first sentence was, "I wanna go on a trip!"), I have felt the draw of the open road. I do like the actual physical part of the driving, the meditative quality of hours on the highway...stopping...
Unapologetically Me
My journey to be myself has been a long one, and it ain't over yet. Growing up in the south in the sixties and seventies was a trip for this curious, spiritual-but-not-religious little girl. I had regular, direct experience of my connection to the All That Is,...