Are You Hurting Yourself By Seeking Lessons from Your Trauma?
I grew up in a culture that sought meaning in just about everything. Why didn’t the rain come when I prayed? Why did that person
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FOCUS – Are you sabotaging your healing and happiness this way?
Are you doing this? 1) Focusing on fixing your shame while… 2) Focusing on fixing your thinking while… 3) Focusing on getting a better job
Take Back Power in Your Happiness And Healing
Father’s Day. This and Mother’s Day are laced with odd patches of emptiness for me. Neglect is the hallmark of my childhood. It was all
Are You Living This Fantasy?
It looks like this: You’re deeply enamored with them. You catch every little signal on their face. You’ve memorized the sway of their body as
A secret that makes my approach to healing codependency and trauma so damn successful
You’re treating yourself like an object instead of a being. You regard your value as something that competes for importance or recognition or approval. You’ve
[BEING YOU = VALUE]
Did you know that you deserve to be valued as you are? Did you know value and worth have nothing to do with how well
Patterns of Behavior – What You Need to Know
“How do I know they’ve changed?” “How can I know they’re safe?” Patterns of Behavior are how. But we often misunderstand what this means. Here’s
The Abuse Made Life Work Backwards For Us
Codependency and narcissistic abuse taught us to respond to the world in a backward way. Instead of conflict leading to comfort and understanding, it led
Being limited and flawed is essential to intimacy
[Being limited and flawed is essential to intimacy] Never thought you’d hear that, I bet. Have you noticed that people who project or attempt to
Make Gratitude Safe Again
[Make Gratitude Safe Again] Gratitude is often used to smother disappointment, hurt, loss, and grief. Our genuine feelings go unaddressed and acknowledged when we’re told,