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You are never too old and it is never too late to change your bad habits, your dysfunctional patterns and find a healthier, happier way to live. Telling yourself that you are too broken, or weak, or lazy, or bad simply keeps you stuck. Those…

I believe this is such a good quote. It encompasses so much about the paradox of trauma work, and really of most therapy work. Trans and non-binary folx often come into therapy with some dysphoria and some internalized negative messages about their gender, their identity,…

As I look around the world, as I look at what is going on locally and nationally, as I look at what is going on with my clients I am heartbroken, and moved and awed, and angered and exhausted. If that is how I am…

Other than in situations of danger or personal safety, denying your own experience for the sake of peace and quiet is not usually healthy. Because when you deny your own experience or convictions you are left feeling disquieted. Why do we prioritize the peace and…

At times I feel that I do not fit into this world, as I cannot understand and comprehend the pain and violence people perpetrate on one another. It is my calling to help change the word that I inherited. I was put on this earth…

Our survival strategies of fight, flight, freeze and fawn are controlled by a part of our brain that we sometimes refer to as our reptilian brain. Evolutionarily it has been around for a long time and it is geared towards survival.   This part of…