In this episode, Cierra has a special conversation with Ambrosia Owens (MA, RMHCI, ATR)
Ambrosia is an art therapist and mental health counselor who works with all ages, including children and teens. She is trained in mindfulness and transpersonal psychology, bringing a holistic approach of mind/body/spirit into counseling and creative arts therapy.

In this conversation, Ambrosia shares about what art therapy is, how it is used in sessions to help adult and children's mental and emotional well being, and how different art modalities are used to encourage different kinds of healing and introspection.
Contact Ambrosia: Ambrosia works at the White Crane Clinic in Tarpon Springs Florida. Website: https://www.heartbloomhealing.com/ Office: (727) 942-4249 Direct: ‪(813) 693-2456‬

Email Ambrosia: [email protected]

Ambrosia's Social:
Instagram: @heartbloom_healing
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087234216394

00:01:01 Introduction of Ambrosia Owen

00:02:52 What does an in-home children's art therapy session look like?

00:05:28 What are some art therapy activities you do with different age groups?

00:08:31 How do you help parents and children process what comes up in your sessions?

00:11:10 Working with parents as the child's therapist, not the parents

00:12:56 What drew you in to being an art therapist?

00:16:30 Allowing imperfection to come through in art

00:22:18 Supporting children who have a resistance to art

00:25:18 How to incorporate more art in the family home

00:28:20 Being with the fear of mess

00:35:19 How to work with Ambrosia

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Back to Heart is a podcast full of open dialogue conversations of and from the heart with Cierra Dae, to learn how to relate with more intention and love within our relationships and parenting. Combining spirituality, psychology, and real life experience to help lead you back in the direction of heart to unravel the karmic patterns of our lives. We learn tools of emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and expression to deepen relationships and heal wounds from generations of disconnect. Coming back to heart to live rich lives we crave and deserve.

In this episode of Back to Heart, Cierra explains what the inner child is and a few different parts of the reparenting process.
She talks about a personal experience she's had in working with healing her inner child through EMDR therapy.

Article: What is EMDR?

https://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr/

Article: How does EMDR work? A neuroscience explanation.

https://mysydneypsychologist.com.au/how-does-emdr-work-a-neuroscience-explanation/#:~:text=EMDR%20temporarily%20slows%20your%20over,encoded%20into%20existing%20memory%20networks%E2%80%9D.

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Explore Dr. Becky Bailey's Conscious Discipline Course: https://consciousdiscipline.com/e-learning/10-session-online-course/
Back to Heart is a podcast full of open dialogue conversations of and from the heart with Cierra Dae, to learn how to relate with more intention and love within our relationships and parenting. Combining spirituality, psychology, and real life experience to help lead you back in the direction of heart to unravel the karmic patterns of our lives. We learn tools of emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and expression to deepen relationships and heal wounds from generations of disconnect. Coming back to heart to live rich lives we crave and deserve.

In this episode, Cierra gives updates on her life and business and shares about the recent intimate relationship she's had with grief and death. She shares what the different parts of her have been experiencing in dealing with the loss of her pet and best friend of over 14 years.

Email Cierra: [email protected]
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Cierra’s Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/@cierradae

Explore Dr. Becky Bailey's Conscious Discipline Course: https://consciousdiscipline.com/e-learning/10-session-online-course/
Back to Heart is a podcast full of open dialogue conversations of and from the heart with Cierra Dae, to learn how to relate with more intention and love within our relationships and parenting. Combining spirituality, psychology, and real life experience to help lead you back in the direction of heart to unravel the karmic patterns of our lives. We learn tools of emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and expression to deepen relationships and heal wounds from generations of disconnect. Coming back to heart to live rich lives we crave and deserve.

In this episode, Cierra shares about the many layers in the reality of forgiveness and what the path may look like when on a journey of healing and forgiving, or being forgiven as a parent of an adult child, or as an adult child in a wounded relationship with parents.
She talks about the importance of feeling the emotions underneath the desire for forgiveness, how to explore those emotions, and being a student on the walk of life.

00:00:00 The layered process of forgiveness

00:04:35 Feeling the emotions under the desire to forgive or be forgiven

00:08:44 Acknowledgment, acceptance and accountability

00:14:47 Being a student to life and modalities of embracing and expressing feeling in order to embrace forgiveness

A meditation to help ease feelings of guilt, shame, or resentment: https://youtu.be/w9QGCNWZIhw

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Cierra’s Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/@cierradae

Explore Dr. Becky Bailey's Conscious Discipline Course: https://consciousdiscipline.com/e-learning/10-session-online-course/
Back to Heart is a podcast full of open dialogue conversations of and from the heart with Cierra Dae, to learn how to relate with more intention and love within our relationships and parenting. Combining spirituality, psychology, and real life experience to help lead you back in the direction of heart to unravel the karmic patterns of our lives. We learn tools of emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and expression to deepen relationships and heal wounds from generations of disconnect. Coming back to heart to live rich lives we crave and deserve.

In this podcast episode, Cierra shares about different skills from Conscious Discipline to help ease the power struggle and emotional disturbance that can come from our children's behaviors that we view as wrong, negative, annoying, or bad.
She talks about the power of positive intent and how to quit taking it personally (Q.T.I.P.) when interacting with our children and littles in their times of reactivity and action.

Email Cierra: [email protected]
Cierra’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cierradae/

Cierra’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cierradaeconsciouscreations

Cierra’s Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/@cierradae

Explore Dr. Becky Bailey's Conscious Discipline Course: https://consciousdiscipline.com/e-learning/10-session-online-course/
Back to Heart is a podcast full of open dialogue conversations of and from the heart with Cierra Dae, to learn how to relate with more intention and love within our relationships and parenting. Combining spirituality, psychology, and real life experience to help lead you back in the direction of heart to unravel the karmic patterns of our lives. We learn tools of emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and expression to deepen relationships and heal wounds from generations of disconnect. Coming back to heart to live rich lives we crave and deserve.