Trauma

Society in general and social media in particular reinforce this idea that what we see is what matters. But we are so much more than our looks or our profile pic. It is who we are, our values, our heart and soul that really matter.…

We all have dirty mirrors that reflect back a distorted sense of self. The dirt on this mirror comes from the families we grow up in, the cultures we are raised in and around, the spiritual or religious beliefs we come from. If the family…

Forgiveness is not about letting the wrong doing off of the hook or saying that what they did was okay. And it is definitely not about allowing that bad or abusive behavior to continue. It is about not continuing to allow what happened to negatively…

Every time I try, I always stop me Maybe I’m just scared to be happy I know that it seems counter-intuitive, but it is not uncommon for folks I work with to be afraid of being happy, to be afraid of healthy change. There are…

Scars are visible reminders of the past. Sometimes that can actually be reassuring as it does indeed suggest that it was real, that time has passed and the person has healed. But what if the scars are not visible? What if the trauma and pain…

Regression, as with most psychological concepts, covers a range of behaviors. This returning to an earlier developmental stage can be as minor as returning home for the holidays, realizing your parents are getting older and instead of facing that fact, returning to ways of being…