by Nayeli Garci-Crespo | May 7, 2025 | News
I’m excited to share that I have been featured on ABC, FOX, NBC, CBS, CW, and other global media for my poem, “Childless Mother,” which is part of Raw Motherhood: A Collection of Poems and Prose to Honor the Joy and Pain in the Journey. Compiled by award-winning...
by Nayeli Garci-Crespo | Dec 5, 2024 | IFS, Posts in English
I’ve long wondered why the words “selfless” and “selfish” exist in the English language, but not “selful.” I’d like to coin the word selfulness—a state of being or an intention towards wholeness and being present to...
by Nayeli Garci-Crespo | May 1, 2024 | News, Posts in English
I’ll be co-facilitating a self expression playshop with Grace Hazeltine through the Los Angeles County Psychological Association’s Arts, Creativity, and Culture Committee on Sunday, May 19th! More info and registration through this...
by Nayeli Garci-Crespo | Feb 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
While I dance I cannot judge,I cannot hate,I cannot separate myself from life.I can only be joyful and whole.That is why I dance. —Hans Bos Recently I’ve been deriving great joy from taking Lindy Hop dancing lessons and attending my IFS colleague Nico...
by Nayeli Garci-Crespo | Jan 10, 2024 | News, Posts in English
I’m a bit late on sharing this as I’ve been moving half speed this winter, but I was so pleased to have my artwork featured in the December issue of the Academy of Therapy Wisdom’s Wise Therapy Spotlight, alongside some beautiful reflections and...
by Nayeli Garci-Crespo | Dec 10, 2023 | Neurodivergence, News, Posts in English
I was very honored to be asked to give this talk for the Los Angeles County Psychological Association’s Mirror of the Mind Artist Spotlight series: The Art of Becoming Who We Are: Multiplicty, Neurocomplexity, and the Joy of Being Late to Bloom. A meditation on...
by Nayeli Garci-Crespo | Oct 12, 2023 | Neurodivergence, Posts in English
The first time I heard the term “pathological demand avoidance” (PDA), a description of a set of behaviors usually characterized as an extreme avoidance of everyday demands and requests, I felt simultaneously called out and annoyed. “Oh my god that’s me!” I thought...
by Nayeli Garci-Crespo | Sep 17, 2023 | IFS, Meditations, Posts in English
Being present with WHAT IS is definitely the first place to start, the main place to start. The place where we forget to be most of the time. But it’s also good to go to what WANTS TO BE, what’s wanting to be born, what’s wanting to emerge. And called by this, being...
by Nayeli Garci-Crespo | Sep 17, 2023 | IFS, Meditaciones, Posts en español
Estar presente con LO QUE ES definitivamente es el lugar donde empezar, el lugar principal. El lugar en el que se nos olvida estar la mayoría del tiempo. Pero también está bien ir a LO QUE QUIERE SER, a lo que quiere nacer, lo que quiere aflorar. Y llamades ahí,...
by Nayeli Garci-Crespo | Aug 11, 2023 | Meditations, Posts in English
More and more I think my job as a “coach,” as someone who accompanies others in their processes, is that of a birth and death doula. It’s often about witnessing and being with someone in their grief so that those feelings don’t get...
by Nayeli Garci-Crespo | Aug 11, 2023 | Meditaciones, Posts en español
Más y más, me doy cuenta que mi trabajo como “coach”, como una persona que acompaña a otres en sus procesos, es ser una especie de doula de nacimiento y muerte. Seguido se trata de atestiguar y estar con alguien en su pena para que esos sentimientos no se “entierren...
by Nayeli Garci-Crespo | Jun 24, 2023 | Meditations, Posts in English
We may get caught in complaint, but when we do, it’s because something in us is unresolved, and the best tonic for this is validation and compassion, not pressing ourselves to look on the bright side or to set aside complaint. We live in a culture that often insists...
by Nayeli Garci-Crespo | Jun 24, 2023 | Meditations, Posts en español
Puede que nos quedemos atorades en quejarnos de las cosas, pero cuando es así, es porque algo en nosotres no ha encontrado resolución, y el mejor bálsamo para esto es la validación y la compasión, no obligarnos a ver el lado positivo de las cosas o dejar de quejarnos....
by Nayeli Garci-Crespo | Sep 13, 2021 | Posts en español, Uncategorized
Hace unos meses, después de lo que se sintió como una eternidad de confinamiento por la pandemia, tenía muchas ganas de hacer algo para celebrar el cumpleaños y la reciente vacunación de mi mamá, Araceli, que, como yo, estaba harta de la ciudad y la monotonía del...
by Nayeli Garci-Crespo | Jul 18, 2021 | Posts in English, Uncategorized
j “I believe that knowing oneself is the most important thing a human being can do for [themself]. How can one know oneself? By learning to act not as one should, but as one does.” —Moshe Feldenkrais About two years ago, after one of those harsh and difficult turns...
by Nayeli Garci-Crespo | Jul 18, 2021 | Posts en español, Uncategorized
j “Creo que conocerse a un[e] misme es lo más importante que un humano puede hacer por sí misme. ¿Cómo puede un[e] conocerse? Aprendiendo a actuar no como une debe, sino como un[e] actúa.” —Moshe Feldenkrais Hace unos años, después de una de esas vueltas fuertes y...
by Nayeli Garci-Crespo | Jul 1, 2021 | Posts in English, Uncategorized
We may at times feel guilty about “indulging” in self care, especially those of us who feel a need to help transform the current sociopolitical reality we find ourselves in. We may feel we are being weak or selfish by taking time to meditate, to rest, to socialize, to...
by Nayeli Garci-Crespo | Jul 1, 2021 | Posts en español, Uncategorized
Es posible que nos sintamos culpables de “consentirnos” con cuidados personales, particularmente aquelles de nosotres que sentimos la necesidad de transformar nuestra realidad sociopolítica actual. Puede ser que nos sintamos débiles o egoístas al tomar tiempo para...
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