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In his book, The Will of the Many, James Islington writes “Chain your anger in the dark, my mother used to tell me, and it will only thrive.” This is true of all emotions that we try to deny, suppress or contain. By our very…

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…

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…