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Posted: December 29, 2024
Welcome to 2025 In an effort to help you start the new year off right, let me offer these gentle suggestions and/or reminders. You do not need to become a new or better version of yourself. Your job on this healing journey is to learn…
Posted: December 21, 2024
The difference between fragile and sensitive is something that has been coming up for me with clients lately, so I thought it might be a good idea to discuss here as well. I think often in our culture we equate sensitivity with fragility, but this…
Posted: November 8, 2024
Healing is not about never being triggered again. This is because bad things, scary things, and worrisome things continue to occur in our lives. If we are healing, we acknowledge this fact of life. Otherwise we are practicing toxic positivity. Healing is being able to…
Posted: October 13, 2024
In Tress of the Emerald Sea, Brandon Sanderson writes the above quote which is literary description of masking. Although the term masking is typically used in discussing Autism, it is a term that applies to many of the clients I work with regardless of their…
Posted: August 16, 2024
Sometimes, the only way to stay alive and breathing is to pretend it never happened. Over time, you can let it in, piece by piece, but if you do it all at once, you could drown yourself in grief. Fragile Sanctuary by Catherine Cowles In…
Posted: July 13, 2024
The lyrics from Max McNown’s A Lot More Free really speaks to how it can feel once we fully accept and embrace the reality of who our parents or toxic partners are and have been. Once we have done work to let go of our…