
{"id":3431,"date":"2008-09-11T08:34:17","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T16:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2008-09-11T08:34:17","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T16:34:17","slug":"recently-healing-from-the-insideout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/09\/11\/recently-healing-from-the-insideout\/","title":{"rendered":"Recently: Healing from the inside\/out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/recently091108.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/recently091108-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ladd\" title=\"recently091108\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" align=\"left\" size-medium wp-image-3432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/recently091108-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/recently091108.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>By Valarie Schwartz<\/p>\n<p>The power of a group of women can hardly be described to someone who has not felt it. <\/p>\n<p>Monday afternoon, I spent some time talking to Stephanie Ladd about the workshops and women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s groups she hopes to get started soon, and the healing power that comes from a group of women meeting regularly. A few hours later I sat amid 22 other women on the screened porch of a neighbor as we discussed expanding our neighborhood book club to form a second group. The fact that these women, upon invitation, would venture out of their cocoons to seek closer community spoke loudly of our innate need to form bonds.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSometimes the one we need to know better is the one gazing back in the mirror. Through her workshops, Ladd hopes to lead women to a deeper connection with their souls. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I want to work with people who really want to do the work themselves,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ladd said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Individuals who want to be a partner in the process, who are open and motivated.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Ladd offers two sources for gaining insight: Soul Collage Workshops, where women will create a beautiful deck of personal cards through guidance within; and a women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s group\/workshop where she will help women alter their lives by leading them to a new path that includes DOing less while BEing more.<\/p>\n<p>Ladd and her husband, Rob Ladd, moved here in late July from Southern California, where they had made their home for decades. <\/p>\n<p>She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Kansas native, but Rob grew up here and they returned in May for the reunion and benefit concert of the Pressure Boys. Rob started drumming with the Pressure Boys in high school and after the successful band broke up, found steady drum work in Los Angeles before deciding to go back to school and earn a degree in computer science. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153When we were here in May, I looked around and said, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI could live here,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ladd said. A man they know who owns a millhouse in Carrboro said he and his family were taking a year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sabbatical in Europe and that the Ladds could live in their house. Rob used his new degree to apply for a job with a local music-software company and got it. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was a marriage and family therapist,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ladd said, adding that after 15 years she felt depleted by the work. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was working from the outside\/in rather than the inside\/out.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The move gave her the chance to create a new model from which to use her knowledge to help people in a different way. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been doing some in-depth exploration and inner growth myself,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said, mentioning Jungian work and women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s groups, as well as learning how to lead Soul Collage workshops. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is really what I love; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an expression of ME.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>After years of helping women heal through talk therapy, she wants to provide creative tools \u00e2\u20ac\u201d art, collage, journaling, active imagination \u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ways to explore ourselves beyond the everyday.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Her experience helps her guide women to look at their pain (or numbness) and innermost desires with a new eye, to visualize it, label it and work it. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fun, the unknown,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ladd said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153When you look at life that way and start to embrace it . . . it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s healing from the inside out.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Women using their power to heal themselves: Awesome. <\/p>\n<p>Learn more at www.saladd.com or call 967-1245.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Valarie Schwartz at 923-3746 or valariekays at mac dot com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}