Rooted with Colleen

🍂 There’s something about fall that feels like permission to begin again.

Maybe it’s the cooler air, the changing leaves, or the reminder that letting go can be beautiful too. Fall invites us to slow down, take stock of where we are, and decide what we want to carry with us into the next season—and what we’re ready to leave behind.

A fresh start doesn’t always require a huge life change. Sometimes it’s a new boundary. A different routine. Choosing yourself a little more often. Resting without guilt. Or simply recognizing that you don’t have to keep doing something just because you’ve always done it that way.

Here’s to crisp air, cozy days, and giving ourselves permission to start again. 🍁🤎

Rooted with Colleen
Therapy • Perspective • A More Grounded You

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A pretty special moment for Rooted with Colleen. 🌿🤍

After months of research, writing, creating, editing (and more formatting than I ever imagined 😂), I finally have the physical copies of Once Upon a Baby Dream in my hands.

These resources were created to help couples navigating infertility feel more connected, understood, and supported through an experience that can put enormous strain on a relationship.

Seeing them go from an idea, to my doctoral work, to something I can actually hold is pretty incredible.

This is why I started Rooted. 🌱

Yoga teacher training tonight 🧘‍♀️🌿

We’re diving into the Sanskrit names of the asanas—not just learning what the poses are called, but breaking down how to actually teach them: cueing, alignment, transitions, modifications, and helping different bodies find their version of the pose.

There is SO much more to teaching yoga than knowing how to do yoga. And I’m loving learning the why behind what happens on the mat.

Still learning. Still practicing. Still growing. 🌱

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🌿 Now Available for CEU Presentations!

One of the parts of my work I’m especially excited to continue growing is training and educating other mental health professionals.

I’m currently available to provide in-person and virtual CEU presentations for practices, agencies, organizations, professional groups, and conferences.

One of my featured trainings is:

🌱 Once Upon a Baby Dream: Recognizing the Hidden Relationship Impact of Infertility

This presentation goes beyond the medical side of infertility to explore what can happen within the relationship—attachment, communication, intimacy, identity, emotional connection, and the ways couples cope differently with an incredibly complex experience.

I’m also developing and offering CEU trainings focused on relationship patterns, attachment, red/yellow/green flags, unhealthy relationship dynamics, and clinical assessment and intervention.

My goal is for every training to be practical, evidence-based, compassionate, and immediately useful in the therapy room.

If your practice, agency, organization, or professional group is looking for a CEU speaker, I’d love to connect. 🌿

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Feel free to message me for presentation topics and availability—or share this with someone who may be looking for a speaker!

The last couple days of yoga teacher training were all about inversions, arm balances, breathwork, and learning to trust my body in some very unfamiliar positions. 🧘‍♀️

And the timing was kind of fitting, because this weekend definitely required some balance off the mat too. We lost power at home, things have been a bit of a mess, and as of tonight… we’re still without power. 😩

But I showed up anyway. I breathed. I tried things that intimidated me. I fell out of poses. I tried again. And somehow ended the weekend doing things I wasn’t sure I could do.

Sometimes balance isn’t about everything being calm and perfectly aligned. Sometimes it’s finding your center while everything around you feels a little upside down. 💜

And apparently sometimes that means literally being upside down. 😂

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✨ A dream is becoming reality. ✨

What began as my doctoral research is almost ready to reach the people it was created for.

Once Upon a Baby Dream is a therapist-guided infertility support program that includes both a Facilitator Guide and a Couple’s Workbook. It was developed from research, evidence-based relationship approaches, clinical experience, and a deep passion for supporting couples through the emotional challenges of infertility.

After months of editing, refining, and preparing these resources, they are now in the final stages before being self-published on Amazon.

My hope is that these workbooks will help therapists confidently facilitate infertility support groups while giving couples practical tools to strengthen communication, connection, and resilience throughout their journey.

This is just the beginning, and I can’t wait to share more with you soon. 💚

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Sometimes the healthiest thing you can do is pause.

We often talk about self-care as something we have to earn after we’ve finished everything on our to-do list. But our bodies usually ask us to slow down long before that list is complete.

Tonight, I’m choosing to listen.

Rest isn’t giving up. It’s creating the space to show up more fully tomorrow—for ourselves, the people we love, and the work that matters most.

If you’re feeling exhausted, consider this your reminder that taking a break isn’t weakness. It’s wisdom. 💚

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Some days are long. Full schedules, heavy stories, and meaningful conversations.

But even on the busiest days, I’m reminded why I love this work. Healing doesn’t happen all at once—it grows one conversation, one insight, and one small step at a time.

Grateful to walk alongside so many incredible people on their journey. 🌿

Today’s storms were a good reminder that not every difficult season is meant to be avoided.

Some storms water the roots.

The hard conversations.
The moments we finally ask for help.
The boundaries we set.
The healing we choose.

None of those are easy—but they often become the moments that help us grow the most.

So if today felt heavy, remember this: storms don’t last forever, and growth often begins beneath the surface, long before we can see it.

🌿 Stay rooted.

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Yoga is more than movement. It’s history, philosophy, self-study, and rest.

Today’s teacher training took us through the rich history of yoga before guiding us into yoga nidra—a practice of intentional rest that reminds us healing doesn’t always happen through doing. Sometimes it happens through simply being.

One of the biggest lessons I’m learning in this journey is that growth comes from both studying deeply and allowing ourselves to slow down.