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Posted: July 18, 2020
The parent-child relationship shapes the way a child will be as a parent and also how they learn to take care of themselves. If there was a secure attachment, with a good enough parent, then the child will be reassured, taken care of and nurtured.…
Posted: July 15, 2020
This is a quote from Debra Wesselmann’s book The Whole Parent: How to become a terrific parent even if you didn’t have one. In the book she suggests we each internalize two different parent ego states, one is the nurturing parent and the other is…
Posted: July 15, 2020
So many of us are running from something inside of us. Sometimes it is traumatic memories from the past. Sometimes it is the knowledge of who we truly are or who we truly love. Sometimes it is feelings. Sometimes it is the fallout from bad…
Posted: July 1, 2020
I often times hear from my trauma clients how they feel weak and that never ceases to amaze me because so often these are some of the strongest people I have ever met. That strength is what allowed them to survive what they went through.…
Posted: June 27, 2020
There is much truth in this statement, and yet we invest so much time and energy into our efforts to avoid that which we are afraid of. Especially in trauma work there is a lot of avoidance – of feelings and memories, people and places.…
Posted: June 26, 2020
Each of us every day make mistakes and it is our responsibility to get back up and learn from them. When we are learning we are bound to make mistakes. Be gentle with yourself, but learn from it, grow from it. In our work to…