Are you experiencing Nature Family Grief?

If the following examples reflect your lived experiences, then the answer is YES.

PLCs

Prior Life Challenges

PLCs are experiences in ancestry preceding one's birth. These experiences deeply impact the context into which one arrives and exists.

Lived Experiences of PLCs:

> Disengagement: A sense of separation from the natural world and its myriad lifeforms leading to sadness especially when hearing of destruction to ecosystems, forests and plant life, oceans, planet, atmosphere, wildlife and pets, and so on.

> Diaspora: The dispersion of people from their homeland, often due to persecution, war, or economic hardship, leading to loss of cultural roots and identity.

> Slavery: The forced labor and brutal treatment of enslaved people, which resulted in immense suffering and loss of cultural identity.

> Indentured Servitude: The exploitation and harsh conditions faced by individuals who were bound by contracts to work for a set period, often in oppressive environments.

> Holocausts: The systematic genocide of six million Jews and millions of other marginalized groups during World War II, leaving enduring trauma and loss.

> Massacres: Events where large numbers of people were violently killed, often targeted due to their ethnicity, religion, or political beliefs, resulting in collective grief and trauma.

These challenges contribute to intergenerational grief and has been known to have lasting adverse consequences on descendants. Addressing these ancestral wounds is crucial for achieving wholeness-based eudaimonia and breaking the cycles that impact current and future generations.

ELCs

Early Life Challenges

ELCs are experiences from childhood. These generate spiritual, mental-physiological, interpretational, emotional, relational, and existential consequences.

Lived Experiences of ELCs:

> Abuse: Physical, emotional, or sexual abuse that inflicts severe trauma and undermines a child’s sense of safety and self-worth.

> Neglect: Lack of adequate care, emotional support, and basic needs, leading to feelings of abandonment and insecurity.

> Family Dysfunction: Exposure to domestic violence, substance abuse, mental illness, or chronic conflict within the family environment.

> Bullying: Persistent harassment and intimidation from peers, causing long-term psychological harm.

> Unresolved Grief: The death of a loved one, divorce, or separation that creates profound grief and adjustment difficulties.

LLCs

Later Life Challenges

LLCs are experiences in adulthood, which can impact intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal well-being, wellness, and wholeness.

Lived Experiences of LLCs:

> Career Stress: Job loss, career transitions, workplace conflicts, and burnout that affect self-esteem and financial stability.

> Relationship Issues: Marital conflicts, divorce, and difficulties in maintaining healthy relationships, leading to loneliness and emotional distress.

> Hospitalizations: Chronic illness, disability, or serious medical conditions that disrupt daily life and create ongoing physical and emotional challenges.

> Financial Hardship: Economic struggles, debt, and financial instability that cause stress and anxiety.

> Unresolved Grief: The death of loved ones, miscarriages, and other significant losses that result in profound grief and adjustment challenges. This grief extends to historical adversity involving unacknowledged pain from MICU.

Ready to Germinate?

Like seeds carrying the potential to become mighty trees and plants, humans also hold immense potential. However, to germinate, seeds need the appropriate medium, and similarly, humans require the right environment to flourish. We often experience life challenges and their accompanying angst but resist allowing the germination process.

TRIP acts as a catalyst to soften the hard shell of a seed, re-enable light to enter into the scarred cracks, and reignite the life-force within each being. When humans view the medium of angst as an opportunity rather than an obstacle, growth is activated. Our approach fosters growth and mental well-being by providing a safe space where compassion meets personalized support.

We understand that each individual's path is unique, and we're dedicated to helping each person acknowledge the core of angst held within. In acknowledging angst, the person is better able to reconcile within themselves, with fellow humans, and beyond humans.

Let's begin with the Life Challenges Assessment:

Life Challenges Assessment

Services

Are you ready to dive deep into the roots of suffering from ancestral, childhood, and adulthood life challenges? Are you ready to create purpose from the pain? As therapists, researchers, and authors, we have guided individuals, couples, families, and groups from a place of angst to one of actualization using a transformative and radical approach called Integral and Transpersonal Family Therapy (ITFT).

ITFT, a community-based, research-backed therapy, integrates systemic, integral, and transpersonal methods of transformation. TRIP's Trifecta approach interweaves chapters, coursework, and cohort sessions to heal all parts of the whole and foster multigenerational and multispecies oneness. Yes, your pain has purpose—it is raw material for your legacy!

Given the opportunity, we will journey to the root of your wounds to reawaken ancient wisdom within. You will (re)learn to be your own healer so that future generations of self, fellow humans, and beyond-human kin may co-flourish once again. When you are ready, let us take that leap into the quest for wholeness! Reach out today to begin our journey!

Weekly Online Therapy

Personalized sessions for individuals, couples, and families to transform life challenges into potential, covered by major insurance providers.

Trifecta

The TRIP Trifecta is a comprehensive 9-week program designed to provide a transformative and immersive experience through three interconnected parts: (1) Chapters to lay the groundwork for understanding the principles of transformation and healing; (2) Coursework (asynchronous, online) to deepen your understanding and apply the concepts from the chapters to your personal journey; (3) Cohort (synchronous, online) to support community development and foster shared learning and mutual growth.

Presentations and Advocacy

Dr. Deepa Ram-Souza is an accomplished speaker who has presented locally, nationally, and internationally, advocating for the mission and vision of TRIP. Her presentations are designed to raise awareness, inspire action, and provide practical tools for transformation.

We offer a range of presentations, workshops, trainings, and keynotes both online and in-person. These sessions focus on TRIP's mission and vision, raising awareness and providing practical tools for transformation.

1. Weekly Sessions

Dr. D is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who provides individual, couple, and family therapy on a weekly basis. These subsystems are guided to transform angst from life challenges into actualized potential. Using ITFT, Dr. D walks side-by-side with her clients to the root of the suffering as a way of contextualizing the relational and systemic wounds. She then engages her clients in six lived experiences of wholeness allowing them to experience a comprehensive approach to healing pain. The caveat to weekly sessions is that her clients must also engage in the quarterly cohort model as a community of peer experiencing similar, if not identical, struggles. Dr. D believes that a community that heals together also learns to thrive as one family.

Dr. D has provided care to those who have experienced ancestral diaspora and cultural displacement, childhood adversities including emotional, physical, sexual, parental, sociocultural, and socioeconomical, and adulthood adversities including death of a loved one (pets, places, plants, and people), career development, parenting, divorces, infidelity, sexual health, and finding life purpose.

2. Quarterly Cohorts and Coursework

Dr. D has facilitated six cohorts so far in which community members enter into a 10-week relationship as one family. The cohort model is unique in that it provides guidance on how to achieve a specific goal: how to transform ancestral, childhood, and adulthood pain into purpose using ITFT. Throughout the series, cohort members are introduced to ITFT's three stages, are provided six guided meditations, and are trained to liberate pain in a talkstory format.

ITFT can be experienced in a cohort or via coursework. The ITFT coursework follows the same schedule as the cohort, allowing one to engage in asynchronous learning, when unable to join the synchronous cohort. Each quarterly method allows one to understand, interpret, generate, and liberate long-held stories of angst so they may become actualized.

3. Monthly Webinars and Newsletters

Given the strong demand for a more effective way of providing care for those who experience stress, anxiety, and depression, Dr. D offers monthly webinars and a newsletter. To attend the webinars, simply register to attend and a link will be sent to you. To receive the newsletter, add your email address.

These monthly offerings encompass ongoing insights, resources, upcoming opportunities, and engaging stories about wholeness. Sign up today!

4. Annual Retreats

Dr. D has long dreamed of creating an in-person opportunity for kindred spirits to gather around the fire in community as did our ancestors. To celebrate her birthday, annual retreats will be scheduled for the second week of December. This makes for a great holiday gift for yourself or your loved ones.

Retreats are facilitated on Hawai'i Island where our Nature Family exists in raw wild abundance. Attendees will experience ITFT is morning, midday, and evening sessions. More details to come as Dr. D plans the first retreat of 2024. Stay tuned!

5. Social Media, Podcast, and Youtube

Dr. D believes wisdom of wholeness should not be trapped in a wallet as everyone and every being is naturally entitled to access stories of healing. For this reason, she hosts conversations on social media platforms, podcasts, and Youtube. Tap in at your convenience and engage in the dialogue. Ask questions and she will do her best to provide insights.

No one person or being is ever not in relation; these forums allow us to reunite and reconcile as one Nature Family. Welcome home - we have been awaiting your arrival.