Whether you’re beginning to explore your healing journey or you’ve been walking this path for a while, you’ll find thoughtful insights, practical tools, and compassionate perspectives on trauma, attachment, and the relationships that shape our lives. This blog is here to remind you that growth is possible, that you’re not alone in your struggles, and that the work you’re doing matters.
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- All
- Adult Children Family Dynamics
- Anxiety
- Attachment Theory
- Betrayal and Trust Recovery
- Book Summary
- Communication Skills
- Complex Trauma
- Dating
- Depression
- EMDR
- Friendship
- Marriage
- Nervous System Regulation
- Parts Work
- Polyvagal Theory
- Relationships
- Somatic Psychotherapy
Media That Inspires Secure Attachment
In DARe training, Diane Poole Heller shared how watching media can impact our attachment system. We instinctively know the negative consequences of being exposed to ...
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It Didn’t Start With You: A Book Summary
How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End The Cycle by Mark Wolynn Core Language is the verbal expression or nonverbal expression ...
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When Being the “Responsible Child” Shows Up as Anxiety
Learning to Stay One Step Ahead Responsible children often became skilled at reading the room. They learned to notice subtle shifts in mood, tension, or ...
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When Being the “Responsible Child” Shows Up as Depression
How Responsibility Became a Way to Stay Connected Many people who grew up as the “responsible child” learned early that paying close attention to others ...
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Why Tracking Sensation Heals Trauma: A Somatic Parts Work Approach
As you read this, you might pause for a moment and notice your body.There’s no right way to do this. Simply observe—your breath, the weight ...
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Introduction to Somatic Psychotherapy
You Do Not Need to be an Expert on the Language Such a beautiful attribute about somatic therapy is the attunement to the exact right words or ...
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Decision-Making in Relationships: Learning to Choose From Safety, Not Survival
Many people don’t struggle with knowing what they want in relationships—they struggle with deciding. Choices that seem simple on the surface—Should I speak up? Stay? Leave? Ask for ...
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Intuition vs. Inner Wisdom: Learning to Tell the Difference
Many people come to therapy saying, “I don’t trust my intuition,” or “I feel disconnected from my inner wisdom.” Often, what they’re really describing is confusion between two very ...
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PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy) with Dr. Stan Tatkin (author of Wired for Dating and Wired for Love)
Types of Attachment Attachment Styles are on a continuum, they are not fixed states Islands, the Anxiously Avoidant individuals Waves, the Anxiously Ambivalent individuals Anchor, ...
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Making Sense of Anxiety
Notes from Anxiety Super Conference 2022 Anxiety is the feeling of your amygdala siring the fire alarm in your brain. It can be the over-active ...
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