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Susan Reis Susan Reis

Becoming What You Hate v. The Radicalism of Compassion

In a world that tells us to choose a team, hate the other, and justify violence, compassion is the most radical act of all. You don’t have to agree with someone to see their humanity. But if we lose our ability to see others as humans and our common humanity in them, then we risk becoming exactly what we’re fighting against. You will always become what you hate, because you hate.

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Susan Reis Susan Reis

What is Breathwork?

Breathwork refers to intentional breathing techniques used to support regulation, presence, and healing. There are very different forms of breathwork, and it can get a bit confusing when people aren’t clarifying. Breathwork can be understood across three categories, and I’m trained in and work with all: activating conscious connected breathwork, functional breathwork, and regulating breathwork.

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Susan Reis Susan Reis

What I Offer: An Alternative & Integrative Path to Real Transformation

At The Cyclical Seed, I offer a trauma-informed and trauma-healing, soul-rooted approach to healing, growth, and integration. My work blends somatics, subconscious healing, coaching, and contemplative practice to support nervous system regulation, inner transformation, and the return to your own innate rhythm. Every offering is grounded in compassionate presence, care, trust in the body’s wisdom, and some humor, inviting not just relief, but deep self-remembering.

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Susan Reis Susan Reis

What is Trauma? When Cycles Don’t Complete…

Trauma is not a pathology, but an adaptive response. Our impulses to traumatic experiences need to be expressed and the emotions realized so the nervous system’s cyclical process can complete. By completing these impulses, feeling what needed to be felt through compassionate presence, and shedding layers of false identity, we can reconnect to our heart and true self which is innately healing and resilient.

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Susan Reis Susan Reis

12th House of Healing, High-Strangeness, & Humanity

How can human consciousness associate the archetypes of suffering and enlightenment together? Because they’re the same. Samsara is nirvana. Hell is heaven. Same place, very different conscious awareness. At the end is an opportunity for a beginning.

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Susan Reis Susan Reis

The Art of Alchemy & Transformation

Lessons in transformation from the human archetype of transformation itself: Metamorphosis needs both love and will, both the stillness of self-acceptance and compassion and the restless, willful desire of deep transformation.

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Susan Reis Susan Reis

The Yin & Yang of American Politics

Opposites create each other. They feed each other and feed into each other. They’re compliments. When opposites become too extreme, they turn into each other (they form a circle).

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Susan Reis Susan Reis

Manifestation v. Mindfulness

Don't be fooled by the delusion masquerading as spirituality. The more you endlessly “want” something, the more that feeling of lack owns you and you continue to spin in cycles of lack. Mindfulness and gratitude are much better, just less flashy, advise.

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Susan Reis Susan Reis

Time in Rotation: Astrology Transits 101

Using the whole sign house system, here’s an easy and very basic way to follow along with the astrology transits and how they can apply to you personally. You’ll just need to know your rising or ascendant sign.

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Susan Reis Susan Reis

Letting Go & the Shadow of Astrology

There is a prominent compulsive stream that runs through astrology that is driven out of fear of the unknown and a need for control. Be mindful how you are consuming astrology content.

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Susan Reis Susan Reis

Astrology and Soul Purpose

Soul purpose in an astrology birth chart and what it means to self-actualize by letting the cosmos express itself through you.

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