By Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP

The wheel of life is turning. Summer is transforming into Fall. The wind calls to us, and leaves have begun to drop from the trees. Children return to school. Our lives shift into a different gear.

I could start  a conversation about new resolutions for the new season, as we move into the Fall Solstice and the shorter days and longer nights. Instead, I'd like to pose a question. And it's a question that I hope that you will pose to yourselves:

"Are you willing to drop your story?"

Yes, really. Just drop your story and let it fade into the summer. Then turn to fully face this brand time without a story -- and with an openness and a willingness to be surprised.

By Karen Carnabucci, LCSW, TEP

It’s important for me to take every opportunity to deepen my connection with constellation work, whether they are discussions with colleagues, intensive trainings and national conferences. Every event brings new inspiration and stimulates me to gracefully share and teach these powerful experiential methods that heal long-standing ancestral patterns and  are truly life changing.

This is why I advocate – and plan to attend – the upcoming 2015 North American Systemic Constellations Conference Nov. 12-15 in San Diego. The opportunity to have thoughtful conversations about this emerging philosophy and how it's growing in the United States, Canada and Mexico continues to help me to refine my relationship with this wonderful work.

A recent conversation helped me remember that when I first really “got” the value of the constellation approach, there was a minute when I was ready to toss out all of my other modalities and focus solely on constellations. The other modalities, which I loved, studied and had successfully employed for years, suddenly seemed so clunky compared to the elegance and simplicity of constellations.