Hello, my name is Linda Longo-Lockspeiser. I’m a wife and mother/stepmother to 5 adult children, and soon to be Grandma. I’ve worn many hats professionally, including teacher/trainer, consultant, supervisor/mentor, singer/cantor, Spiritual director, psychotherapist, and writer.

Many people suffer from a mind that won’t leave them alone. This suffering can shut us down, cause fractures or distance in our relationships, lead to addictions, and create a general sense of despair. We often think that “doing more” will somehow quiet the internal critic, judge and jury. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I have learned through early family experiences, and later as a systems therapist, about spirituality and its connection to our mental, physical and emotional health, and overall sense of well-being. Now in the generative stage of my life, I look forward to sharing what I have learned— that there’s more going on than meets the eye once we start to look beyond the immediate details of our life.

This blog series will focus on learning from the body about what is out of balance in our life, our relationships and our thinking, and what we need to restore wholeness and serenity. I utilize Family Constellation Work as a method of uncovering the hidden dynamics operating in our life revealing invisible loyalties at the root of some of the most chronic problems we experience.

My Health is being in balance— in body, mind, and spirit. It is being in right relationship with myself, my Higher Power and all creation. It is putting in the effort and letting go of the outcome, or going with the flow of Life and trusting that we will be taken care of, no matter what. In this series, I will chronicle some of the shifts I needed to make to begin my own healing from life’s traumas. Along the way, I will share some of my best teachers— physical symptoms, lost relationships and mental confusion— and what each of these led me to discover that helped restore balance in body, mind and spirit.