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“The human soul doesn’t want to be advised, fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed – to be seen, heard and companioned exactly as is.” – Parker Palmer
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I have some really interesting news for you. If you take it in, you’ll be a lot freer than most of people on the planet.
Whoever you’re comparing yourself to right now is dealing with some dark shit that you don’t want any...
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If you’re like me, you are working on feeling safer in your own skin. One hack we created along the way to survive and to participate in our lives and some of our dreams is that we settled for having imposter syndrome. Because society...
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In this video, I answer a question about Attachment and getting misdiagnosed when you have CPTSD. If we follow the thread of our issues, we can see that most if not all have their roots in some kind of childhood pain.
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A few questions you can ask...
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Last week I sent you an excerpt from The Irreverent Trust Guide, so this week I made a video to show you how I would use the tool on a particular question. I applied The Ladder of Trust on a question to an advice columnist on what...
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Please join us for the next Trauma Book Book Club class and I will be teaching from The Body Keeps the Score on the CPTSD brain’s tug-of-war and teach 2 tools about how we attract each other at our level of mental health. You don’t have to...
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This is a clip from the last class I taught. I was asked a question about a Field Study and I used a soccer field as a metaphor for the psychological field. Below is the explanation I taught and what Van Der Kolk means when he talks about "The Watchtower" in...
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My next few lessons will be on the ever elusive “closure” we’re looking for.
The first thing to know about closure is seeking it outside of yourself is not a thing. Here are some things that people use the word closure...
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Join us this Saturday for the Trauma Book Book Club where we'll be talking about how part of the brain that's the alarm system for our brain and a few tools that can help us remind ourselves that we're safe.
Recently, a friend made a big leap in following...
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It’s time to finally be free from having to be “the Bigger Person.” How Advanced Bitches do that is to really get the magnifying glass out and fully deconstruct what it means to be “the bigger person.”
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Here's a clip from the last class about why as an Advanced Bitch, we must work hard to not give into shame and negative self-talk.
The figure I'm holding up is an expertly rendered picture of the brain. It helps me to understand the...
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Many years ago, I was waiting for a 12-step recovery meeting to start and I was struggling with relapse. I was feeling defeated and wanted to “start again on Monday.” BTW - The addiction is never interested in you starting...
