Linda Yael Schiller, MSW, LICSW

Integrative and Embodied Dreamwork and Healing

Recognizing the Calls from our Ancestors: Shouts and Whispers

Family legacy, like dreams themselves, can move forward and backwards in time. Welcome all dreamers and seekers to the new year! How do your ancestors get your attention – through shouts or through whispers? Over half of Americans (53%) report connection with their ancestors who have departed according to the Pew Research Center, most of […]

Honoring Our Namesakes: When Waking and Sleeping Dreams Collide

“Merrily, merrily merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.”   Welcome Dreamers, What does it mean when our waking and sleeping lives coincide?  When the inside dream and the outside dream reflect each other? The doubling of an image or theme in dreams, or when waking life and sleeping life overlap generally means, “This is […]

Bortscht, Dreams, and Healing History

  “Here’s to the ones that we’ve lost, here’s to the ones that we’ve got, and the (dreams) bring back all the memories…” Maroon 5 Welcome to June, Last week I had my first flashback. Up till now I had been privileged to understand the nature of flashbacks, (whether waking ones or nightmares), only from the […]

More Ancestor Dreaming: From Whence They Come?

“Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again. Because a vision softly creeping, left its seeds while I was sleeping…” Paul Simon Hello dreamers, Recently there has been a lot of ancestor activity filling my in-box. In any given week, I get two or three or more emails about a new […]

When Our Shadow Meets World Shadow: Healing Opportunities Across Time and Space

  “People will do anything…to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imaging figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” C. Jung Welcome to spring, dreamers, Healing opportunities might not be the first thing we think of when we consider our pain, our wounds, or the darkness and pain of […]

Moving from Fear to Joy in Times of Covid 19

Hello all, We didn’t ask for this, but here we are in dark times. Times that include suffering, fear, and grief. It has been said that we cannot appreciate the light until we have journeyed in the dark. Few take this journey voluntarily however; we are thrust into it. So in the midst of “I […]

Quarantine or Retreat: 5 Simple Practices for Staying Calm in Turbulent Times

Quarantine or Retreat? In these turbulent times, we have been asked to place ourselves in voluntary quarantine for our own safety and the safety of our loved and vulnerable ones.  The concept of “quarantine” can conjure up images and feelings of isolation, of loneliness and of fragility. What if we re-think this message as one […]

Covid-19 Nightmares, Dreams, and Reclaiming Life

Welcome dreamers, What is emerging in your dreams during this pandemic? For many of us, our dreams have become more vivid, more complex, and often fraught with images, stories and emotions that are not part of our usual dream repertoire. The fact that many of us are off our usual routines, changing our sleeping and […]

Resolving Nightmares, Part 2

 “I’ve had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because my dreams.” Jonas Salk Introductory post here Nightmares are frequently one of the aftershocks that follow traumatic events. They reflect the trauma in one of three ways: Either an “instant replay” of the events that occurred, a close replaying with […]