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How many of us need to sit down and decide to love ourselves? Despite what our body looks like? Despite how others perceive us? Despite all those internalized messages that beat us down for our looks, our skin color, our gender, who we love? I…

Being homesick for a home that never existed is a theme that comes up a lot with my clients who have attachment trauma. It is a longing for parents who could have loved them and been attuned to them in the way that they needed.…

Dr Sandra Paulsen is known for her work with EMDR on early trauma, trauma in the first few years of life. This sort of trauma is naturally not going to be stored in a person’s brain as a narrative memory with a picture associated with…

This quote is speaking to me more and more these days. This year has been SO rough, and the hits just seem to keep coming. I am going to be real with you, as I sit here in my shirt that says ‘My patronus is…

Shedding the past is easy for some but not for others. And for trauma survivors it can feel nearly impossible. As impossible as it may seem, it is vital in healing to shed that past. It may mean shedding old, unhealthy relationships with family and…

I love the image of a strong trans or gender fluid person. I love the idea that you strong and can move mountains. I admire the strength and bravery they demonstrate simply living their lives in this unaccepting and stubborn world. I love the image…