by Jule Kucera | Jul 27, 2025 | Blog
We’re back to Dan Robert’s Internal Family Systems meditation course on InsightTimer, still on Day 2. Remember in middle school or high school, back when there were art classes, learning how to dig grooves into a linoleum square? Or maybe you did it when you were...
by Jule Kucera | Jul 20, 2025 | Blog
When I looked into the future, and saw myself acting as my mother’s healthcare power of attorney, I imagined her lying in a coma in a hospital bed, me and her caregivers surrounding her, me relaying her wishes. What I did not imagine was a conversation with my...
by Jule Kucera | Jul 13, 2025 | Blog
On the drive to New Jersey, I listened to What Happened to You, by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD. Dr. Perry says that the first 2 months of a baby’s life are the most critical. If a baby experiences loving attachment from birth through two months, the baby...
by Jule Kucera | Jul 6, 2025 | Blog
Every morning I listened to the next lesson from Dan Roberts, taking extensive notes. Nuggets from Lesson 2 Babies have five core development needs: Love and a secure attachment. Safety and protection. Being valued as a unique human being. (“I don’t love you...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 29, 2025 | Blog
Because I was feeling unsettled from exploring family trauma, and because my therapist is of the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy branch of psychology, and because I wanted to know more about Internal Family Systems therapy, I went there next. Time to focus inward, not...
by Jule Kucera | Jun 22, 2025 | Blog
As I held my imaginary conversations with these ancestors—Emilie and Emil and Joseph—I got the same sense from each of them. Isolation. They shifted from being story fragments to wounded people, from yellowed photographs to whatever is the color of loneliness. Because...
