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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

In the Podcast Dear White Women (Episode 144), guest Shelly Tygielski says, “There’s a Buddhist proverb that says that we should tend to the areas of the garden we can reach. If we all took responsibility for tending to the areas of the garden we…