Linda Yael Schiller, MSW, LICSW

Integrative and Embodied Dreamwork and Healing

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 […]

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 […]

Nightmares, Trauma, and Healing from PTSDreams

Nightmares are dreams on steroids Welcome Dreamers, After a long break from posting here (in order to get my book out!) I’d like to invite you to focus on the interface between nightmares and trauma. Nightmares that relive or that symbolically recreate traumatic events in our lives are one of the most upsetting and intractable […]

Dreaming in the Time of Trump: A Guide for the Anxious

“There are many who don’t wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don’t wish to wake for the same fear.” Dandelions, The Disappearance of Annabelle Fletcher, Rochelle F. Goodrich Welcome dreamers, Have you noticed lately that your dreams are more permeated than usual with a vague or not-so-vague sense of […]

Tree Dreams, Liberation, (and Mary Oliver)

Welcome dreamers, At this time of year, we celebrate Easter, Passover, the equinox, and the coming of spring. Themes of renewal, resurrection, and freedom abound as we mark this season, and remember that the healing potential lays under the darkest of places.  Although here in New England we are still dealing with a layer of […]

Lucid Dreaming: Awake IN Your Dreams

In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening. Stephen LaBerge Welcome dreamers, […]

Dreams of Healing: Marathon Bombing Anniversary #1

Dreaming is a healing process…a vital means by which we bind up our wounded spirits and rekindle our hopes for the future.” (Kelly Buckeley) Welcome dreamers, Last year the Boston area held the world in horrified thrall during the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon.  Stories have appeared in the news media off and on […]