The wise and refreshingly real Karen Kieffer returns to The Psychedologist to talk shop about keeping the next generation human. She speaks about how to become a conscious parent (not a perfect parent), and how to protect and nurture our children in a world that is not protective and nurturing; creating a web of community and care; being in solidarity and taking action while the world is making us more isolated; and finding hope in dark times - all while living with terminal illness.

Some highlights include:

• how important it is not to lose ourselves in outrage and despair

• Tending to relationships, growing out of relationships

• How parents contribute to shaping their baby’s nervous system, and the merit of understanding your childhood stuff before having a baby so things don’t operate through you unconsciously

• That trauma is one way that the nervous system learns something, therefore the term “heal my trauma” could also be understood as, “help my nervous system learn a different thing” (and how to create new experiences for ourselves that help us learn a different thing, in our own way and that aligns with our own values)

• Going through the body to understand and change a behavior

• Cancer, and human beings as the most complex entity in the universe

• The adaptive human drive to try to avoid uncertainty

• Transformation in the year of the fire horse

• Psychedelic Integration coaching

Bio:

Karen Kieffer, MSW, LICSW, CCTP, CTNC
I’m Karen and I run Snowfields Coaching. I’m a trauma therapist and coach trained in a bunch of different modalities like EMDR, Feedback Informed Treatment, expressive therapies, Finnish Open Dialogue, PSIP and other psychedelic therapies, etc. I am also eligible to sit for the Health and Wellness Practitioner Board exam, and I bring a holistic, non-clinical approach to all of my work.

I want to help people make practical use of tools that they can use on their own forever that are based on their uniqueness so that they can become more of who they are, to grow and change in the direction they want to go without endless therapy or unwanted medications. I use my own experience of navigating the mental health system plus formal training and education to support people to achieve their own goals through coaching that is informed by clinical, anti-clinical, political, nonviolent, dialogical, physiological, organizational, social, evolutionary, and ecological principles – and probably more!

I am a not-perfect mother of one amazing adult and I am blessed with a whole network of wonderful friends and family who really know me and hold me up.

I offer coaching in several specific areas.

To explore working together, the fastest way is to set up a quick meeting at this calendar link: https://calendly.com/snowfields-coaching/let-s-meet-for-coffee .

I do have Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram pages, but my home and the best place to find me is really at the Motherhood Alliance here: https://www.motherhoodalliance.com/snowfields-coaching .