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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…

We all have our dark sides, our shadows, our monsters. This darkness can move us to lash out at others, to hide parts that we were taught were shameful. We all have parts, whether we are ‘whole’ people or those who are actually multiple. And…

I recently attended a training in The Dance of Attachment with Deany Laliotis and it has really gotten me thinking about attachment and how those wounds how up in therapy. Attachment wounds develop when we did not get our emotional, developmentally appropriate needs met by…