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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…

This song captured my mood in the 1990s when it came out, and in some ways it captures the mood of the present. It acknowledges that there is just so much going on in the world right now that is disturbing and wrong, and it…

My heart goes out to the AAPI community and the families who lost loved ones in the attacks in Atlanta so clearly driven by racism and misogyny. Asian and Pacific Islander lives matter Sex workers’ lives matter Immigrants lives matter Women’s lives matter And all…

This internal conflict in those with either a single trauma or complex trauma is quite common. The more unconscious this conflict is, the more precarious recovery can be as the person is likely to feel or believe that no conflict exists, and then act accordingly.…

A common misconception people have about change is that it needs to be drastic to be worthy of making. I think some of this comes from the fact that we often wait until things are unbearable or unmanageable to make a change, and so we…