InscApe

Imagine a landscape with translucent, pale blue waves softly breaking at the shore of a pristine beach. Now imagine standing in a torrential rainstorm with a loud clap of thunder and lightning as you watch cloudy, violent waves crash into the shore. These scenes elicit different feelings. In the same way, our inscapes, which are our inner mental worlds, elicit different feelings. Oftentimes, people fall into patterns of thinking or patterns of behavior without awareness around how these thoughts and behaviors are directing their lives and impacting their relationships with others. Seemingly living on autopilot, they don’t recognize the power they have to step back and become the observer of their inner mental world. Exploring the inscape with curiosity and compassion can open a door to a new way of living.

By becoming the observer of your internal world, you can gain insight and understanding of beliefs, thoughts, and feelings that can create what feels like rainstorms in our minds. You can learn coping skills for navigating intense feelings, like anger or anxiety, so they do not control your behavior. You can rewrite disempowering narratives that lead to anxiety, sadness, or conflict with others, and you can clarify boundaries you might need to have with others. Through this process, you can learn to strengthen the relationship with yourself, so you can create the life you want.