Dissociation

“You’ve always been strong…Perhaps too strong.” But that wasn’t true. She wasn’t strong so much as capable of numbing herself to the worst and watching every blow land with wry fatalism. She’d buried parts of herself that hurt and raged, turning wary and self-contained. It…

Here are some quotes from Dr. Jennifer Mullan’s Decolonizing Therapy that move me speak to my own hopes for this journey I’ve embarked on: Many of us began this career path with a deep calling to help others, but what we really needed was to…

“You can’t change the past, but it’s infinitely reframable. You can tell the same story over and over in a hundred different ways, and every version is a little right, and every version is a little wrong.” – Maria Adelmann in How To Be Eaten…

Resilience is the capacity to adapt successfully in the presence of risk & adversity. One aspect of resiliency is cognitive fitness. Cognitive fitness is the capacity to adapt successfully in the presence of risk & adversity. To be healthy is to be flexible & adapt…

Emotional fitness is the ability to enhance positive emotions, self-regulate emotions, and enhance one’s relationship to emotions by tapping into acceptance and mindfulness strategies.  When emotionally aroused or triggered practice ‘opposite action’ to unhealthy solutions you normally engage in.  Instead of avoiding situations or reminders…

Getting excited about this week’s EMDRIA conference and so I’m diving back into Queering EMDR Therapy, edited by Roshini Chabra, LMFT. In the chapter by horizon greene, LCSW, they write, “Knowing that we heal when we have access to both enough activation (a foot in…