Locus of Healing

26/09/2026

Just a few spaces left at our next Inflow retreat! Is one for you?
I N F L O W - INspiring Freedom and Love by Opening Within
The Inflow retreat weaves together Internal Family Systems and Swedenborg's teachings on the psyche with embodiment practices and expressive arts to guide participants into greater connection with themselves.
We have one standard bed spot available - one of two twin beds in a shared room with a private bath (woman only), and 5 bunk bed spots open in a 3-bunk bed room.
This retreat space is sure to be amazing! The Okemo Ski Resort in the Green Mountains in peak fall!
Registration closes on September 30th. If you've felt called, take the plunge and register! You won't regret it!
https://events.humanitix.com/inflow-october-2026

Inflow is a weekend workshop exploring Swedenborg’s teachings on the inner & outer self through lived experience. Offering a unique blend of Swedenborg and IFS.

29/11/2025

“Put yourself in the way of beauty.”
—John O’Donohue
The fall colors plus the angle of the autumn light are breathtaking. At this point in November, mostly only yellow leaves remain. It feels good to savor each part of the year.

28/11/2025

Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) wrote in Neo-Latin about psycho-spiritual principles he observed within his own system.
One term he writes about that has driven translators crazy trying to understand what he means is “affectio veri.” Literally translated it is affection for truth or the desire for truth. In Opening the Inner World, we made the connection of this term with curiosity. Translator and co-author Jonathan writes, “We realized that substituting words like longing worked, because in his framework, he’ll use the word ‘love’ when you’re talking about a higher level, and then he’ll use the word ‘affection’ when referencing a lower level, but they’re one of a kind. . . . You love something you have, but you long for something you don’t have, it’s something that pulls you forward. . . .
Chelsea: It reminds me of the pairing of ‘being’ and ‘manifestation’ which Swedenborg makes. There’s the eternal love for truth that just IS, but then in the flow of time, how that unfolds is that you have this affection for it, this drive for seeing what’s going on, with that love inside, or a longing to get to that love.”
Excerpted from Opening the Inner World, pp149-151.
What this means in experience: spiritual longing is a sign of something that already exists within a higher level of yourself, your inner self that is connected to the divine. Responding to this longing leads us on our journey.
This longing shows up in relationships when we let our curiosity lead, when we’re willing to learn what’s true for the other person. When we do, we’re supporting one another in connecting to the divine love inside all of us.

Opening the Inner World, by Chelsea Odhner, Robert Falconer, and Jonathan Rose, is available in paperback and ebook now (link in bio) and will be available in audiobook form in early 2026!

27/11/2025

Save the date! On January 24th, 2026, we’re hosting a Circle Calendar-Making workshop! This will be both a chance to envision your year and express it on a circle calendar, giving you a touchstone to return to throughout the year. The circle calendar maps the lunar and solar year, creating a unique cycle and rhythm. You will learn to tune into the eight turning points of the year and have a personalized anchor for your journey.
Message us if you want to be notified when registration details come out!

26/11/2025

What We’re Learning!
This book has become an ongoing resource for me in my healing journey. I’ve learned so many good practices from it that have helped me through tough times. Several that I come back to again and again. It emphasizes the role that our intuition plays in healing trauma. This idea that beneath, above, or within our sense of ourselves that we’ve developed, we have our whole self, unbroken, with all the wisdom and love and guidance we need for making it through and recovering our authenticity. How we access that inner confidence and connection, as emphasized in the book, is primarily “right-brained” and somatically-oriented. We’ve never actually lost connection, but we feel isolated and lost. The return journey is shorter than we think it could be. Through breath and intuitive drawing, meditation and embodied practices, we remember.
Check out The Transformation by James Gordon, founder of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine.
Cmbm.org

25/11/2025

Labyrinth build progress!! We’ve had the wonderful support and collaboration of Golden-Thread Labyrinth to create a labyrinth in the front yard of Locus of Healing. Alan came out a couple times to paint the lines so we could dig them. The seasons passed and the leaves fell and we hadn’t made the progress I had been dreaming of. So we picked a build day and thankfully the weather and our energy aligned to successfully finish the digging and a first layer of stones! The before picture is from when I noticed how the leaves were getting caught in the one rut we had dug. Seeing its outline helped spur my motivation. We now have a walkable labyrinth!! We’ll be scheduling a community blessing ceremony, so stay tuned for that, and in the future we look forward to hosting labyrinth workshops too! There will be more progress updates a time goes on, but for now I’m feeling very grateful and accomplished for reaching this point. If you’re ever walking down Edge Hill, you are welcome to take some time for contemplation and walk the labyrinth!

24/11/2025

For this installment of our Shout Outs! We want to celebrate the Resilience Resource Center in Huntingdon Valley, PA. The RRC is a community-centered organization that supports fostering resilience in marginalized communities through its programs. They offer a number of weekly and special events, as well as 1:1 support through mental health counseling and career skills training, support groups, and educational programs. They are a non-profit which enables them to offer these forms of support free or low cost. We are grateful to have such a great organization close by!
Visit resiliencerc.org to learn more!

23/11/2025

Hey everyone! Chelsea here. Introducing myself to our Locus of Healing social media accounts. These pics are from the Inflow retreat I got to facilitate this past August. It was a phenomenal experience and we’re planning more like it in 2026! I love to combine Swedenborg’s insights with IFS to offer people a transformative way to connect with their wholeness and authenticity.
In the coming days/weeks I’m excited to share about workshop plans we’re developing as well as our other offerings.
Follow us on Instagram and Facebook to get updates! (Maybe we’ll get an email list set up eventually...) If you’re interested in 1:1 work, visit locusofhealing.com to set up a free consultation.

22/11/2025

When parts make space you can embody more Self-energy. It is counterintuitive, but the more parts unblend, the closer and more connected they'll feel to you. They feel less alone. But making that step takes courage. Parts are often willing to make space when asked from a place of compassion and respect. And if they’re not willing, they have their reasons, which is worth being curious about. If you want to try an unblending meditation, I recommend IFS practitioner Bahia Miller’s “IFS Unblending Meditation” on Insight Timer. I hope you feel grounded and calm and in touch with your wholeness. You matter and you are not in this alone.

If you want to explore IFS therapy for yourself, go to locusofhealing.com to set up a free consultation.

21/11/2025

Opening the Inner World is a new book by Chelsea Odhner, Robert Falconer, and Jonathan Rose (May 2025) that explores spiritual healing from the vantage points of Internal Family Systems and Emanuel Swedenborg’s thought, based on recorded conversations between the authors. Swedenborg was an 18th century Swedish mystic and scientist who had extensive spiritual experiences and published his observations in Latin. All of his published works have been translated into English. For a very accessible translation, explore the New Century Edition.
Dick Schwartz, founder of IFS, said of Opening the Inner World: “for those interested in the spiritual side of IFS, Swedenborg points to worlds we have yet to explore.”
Here’s an excerpt from Opening the Inner World about curiosity and trust:

"Swedenborg associates a lot of good qualities that occur when you have trust in providence, and I think curiosity would fall within that. Trust in divine providence is a core piece. Swedenborg has a lot to say about how trust is core to our spiritual awakening or enlightenment. . . . If a part is feeling curious, that's Self-energy being in that part. So if you turn that around, if we are ever having curiosity, there's this trust in this larger divine picture, even if it's on a subconscious level."

How do trust and curiosity factor into your relationships?

See the link in bio to order Opening the Inner World!