Allison Bruce

Lessons Of 2025: Letting Go To Live In Alignment 2025 asked something very specific of me, not more striving,  not more holding some things together, but something far quieter and far more demanding: to let go. At first, that invitation brushed up against something familiar and uncomfortable. I have long known, both personally and professionally, that persistence is not always synonymous with wisdom, that loyalty can quietly become self-abandonment, and that forcing something to work often...

An Ending That Feels Like a Beginning 2025 has been a year of brave and honest exploration. A year of slowing down enough to truly look at my life and make conscious decisions about what no longer serves me and what genuinely nourishes my soul. This clarity did not arrive through dramatic upheaval or sudden reinvention, but through quiet moments of listening, noticing, and telling myself the truth. Professionally and personally, I began to recognize where effort had turned into depletion and...

A relational and embodied way of coping with the holidays For many people, the holidays are not inherently stressful because of schedules, travel, or long to do lists. They are stressful because they activate memories from earlier times in our life. Not just the kind you can name, but the kind your nervous system remembers. The memories are often complicated, just as the holiday season itself can be. In my work as a therapist trained in EMDR and relational, embodied approaches, I see this...