Kim Mossbrook, CCEP, Core Energetics

Co-Leading a retreat for folks that identify as Women at Shalom Mountain. If it feels right, would love to have you join us.

Shalom Retreat® for Women (Spring) — Shalom Mountain® Led by Kim Mossbrook and Nina Swift Using the Shalom Retreat® format, we will create a place to bring all our joys and sorrows while being held in the loving embrace of a circle of women. This retreat is the home where all of you is welcome.

Co-leading a personal growth retreat in January 2024. Reach out if it feels like it might be a good fit for where you are in your life.

Shalom Retreat® — Shalom Mountain® Led by Kim Mossbrook and Ben Wild The Shalom Retreat® is an intensive growth experience set in a loving and supportive community.

Might it be time for you or someone you know participate in personal growth work? I am co-leading a retreat for folks identifying as a women at Shalom Mountain in the Catskills. check it out! If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them. 💜

Shalom Retreat® for Women — Shalom Mountain® Led By Kim Mossbrook and Carrie Jameson Using the Shalom Retreat® format, we will create a place to bring all our joys and sorrows while being held in the loving embrace of a circle of women. This retreat is the home where all of you is welcome.

https://www.shalommountain.com/events/shalom-retreat-may

Coleading a retreat in May at Shalom

Might it be right for you?

Shalom Retreat® — Shalom Mountain® Led by Sandie Rumold and Kim Mossbrook The Shalom Retreat® is an intensive growth experience set in a loving and supportive community.

Co-leading a personal growth retreat in May. Reach out if you have questions and interest.

Shalom Retreat® — Shalom Mountain® Led by Carrie Jameson and Kim Mossbrook The Shalom Retreat® is an intensive growth experience set in a loving and supportive community.

Shalom Retreat® — Shalom Mountain® Led by LJ Wooden and Kim Mossbrook The Shalom Retreat® is an intensive growth experience set in a loving and supportive community.

Co-leading a Shalom retreat Thursday March 16-20th. Come join us if it feels like the perfect opportunity for you.

Shalom Retreat® — Shalom Mountain® Led by LJ Wooden and Kim Mossbrook The Shalom Retreat® is an intensive growth experience set in a loving and supportive community.

Ready to continue your personal growth work ? Consider joining me on this retreat at Shalom Mountain Retreat and Study Center, in August, with my co-leader Beth Lewis.

https://www.shalommountain.com/events/shalom-retreat-july

Shalom Retreat® — Shalom Mountain® Led by Kim Mossbrook and Beth Lewis The Shalom Retreat® is an intensive growth experience set in a loving and supportive community.

https://www.shalommountain.com/events/shalom-retreat-november

Is it time to attend a personal growth retreat? To be witnessed within community? Join me as I co-lead a retreat in the Catskills, NY., November 11-14.

Shalom Retreat® — Shalom Mountain Led by LJ Wooden and Kim Mossbrook The Shalom Retreat® is an intensive growth experience set in a loving and supportive community.

Found a new poet - and this piece spoke to me. Resonates on a level of what we do in Core Energetics sessions, attempting to connect with the disconnected, allow the different voices to have space, and to breathe.... " What took you so long?"

my brain and
heart divorced
a decade ago
over who was
to blame about
how big of a mess
I have become
eventually,
they couldn't be
in the same room
with each other
now my head and heart
share custody of me
I stay with my brain
during the week
and my heart
gets me on weekends
they never speak to one another
- instead, they give me
the same note to pass
to each other every week
and their notes they
send to one another always
says the same thing:
"This is all your fault"
on Sundays
my heart complains
about how my
head has let me down
in the past
and on Wednesday
my head lists all
of the times my
heart has screwed
things up for me
in the future
they blame each
other for the
state of my life
there's been a lot
of yelling - and crying
so,
lately, I've been
spending a lot of
time with my gut
who serves as my
unofficial therapist
most nights, I sneak out of the
window in my ribcage
and slide down my spine
and collapse on my
gut's plush leather chair
that's always open for me
~ and I just sit sit sit sit
until the sun comes up
last evening,
my gut asked me
if I was having a hard
time being caught
between my heart
and my head
I nodded
I said I didn't know
if I could live with
either of them anymore
"my heart is always sad about
something that happened yesterday
while my head is always worried
about something that may happen tomorrow,"
I lamented
my gut squeezed my hand
"I just can't live with
my mistakes of the past
or my anxiety about the future,"
I sighed
my gut smiled and said:
"in that case,
you should
go stay with your
lungs for a while,"
I was confused
- the look on my face gave it away
"if you are exhausted about
your heart's obsession with
the fixed past and your mind's focus
on the uncertain future
your lungs are the perfect place for you
there is no yesterday in your lungs
there is no tomorrow there either
there is only now
there is only inhale
there is only exhale
there is only this moment
there is only breath
and in that breath
you can rest while your
heart and head work
their relationship out."
this morning,
while my brain
was busy reading
tea leaves
and while my
heart was staring
at old photographs
I packed a little
bag and walked
to the door of
my lungs
before I could even knock
she opened the door
with a smile and as
a gust of air embraced me
she said
"what took you so long?"
~ john roedel

Co-leading a retreat in the Catskills. Might it be time for you?

https://www.shalommountain.com/events/shalom-retreat-november

Shalom Retreat® — Shalom Mountain Led by LJ Wooden and Kim Mossbrook The Shalom Retreat® is an intensive growth experience set in a loving and supportive community.

Truth...

What doesn't kill you doesn't always make you "stronger"...

“We’ve given a single emotion far too much credit”.... so much truth in that statement.

page 106 from ‘home body’ ♥️

a while ago i had a conversation with my dad about happiness. about how we in the modern world have become so obsessed with happiness, that we’ve begun to perceive it as a state we’re supposed to be in most of the time. otherwise, something must be wrong with us. we treat happiness like it’s a lifestyle. a thing to grab, hold, and keep, when in reality happiness is just an emotion.

“we’ve given a single emotion far too much credit” he said. because like any other emotion, happiness is meant to come and go. he said “emotions are just temporary states of being, nothing more than passing visitors. they do not define our lives.” this teaching has kept me grounded in tough times. especially while i was trying to figure out why i couldn’t “stay happy”. the teaching said: you are not entitled to stay in any emotion. the sooner you learn to stop avoiding the difficult ones, the sooner they’ll pass. the sooner you stop trying to keep the good ones, the less devastated you’ll be when they go. the wheels keep turning. and within that motion we must find our peace.

Leaving this right here today, for whomever might need it...