Interdependence or Codependency?

Interdependence or Codependency?

Repeat after me: “Not my monkeys, not my circus.” Have you ever been so focused and hell bent on your own recovery and healing that you forget that others are responsible for their own path too? Hands in the air, all around. It’s virtually impossible to coexist in...
Ambiguous Loss

Ambiguous Loss

Ambiguous loss ⁣ ⁣ We don’t talk about it enough, or much at all. We wake, we breathe, we go about our days, we sleep. We repeat. In that hustling and shuffling about while being human, there are clear gains. And clear losses. Birth, death. Life lived, life ended....
Feel it to Heal it

Feel it to Heal it

Oooo that super scary F-word… feelings! ⁣ I think about this often; what is it about feelings that are so scary for people?⁣ ⁣ Doing clinical work over the years with kids as compared to adult clients is funny (not funny). Adults come in, you ask how they are,...
All Trauma is Contagious

All Trauma is Contagious

When you were a child, did anyone have to tell you when something was wrong? Did it have to be explained to you? Or was it that you intuitively knew, that your body spoke to you and told you something was wrong?⁣ It’s the latter, never the former. ⁣ Trauma is not...