Fairy Dusted Blog
Hello, hello, hello…good to see you!
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...
Magical Lesson:
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.
Magical Action Step*:
A few questions you can ask...
Hello, hello, hello…good to see you!
Magical Lesson:
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...
Hello, hello, hello…good to see you!
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...
Hello, hello, hello...good to see you.
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...
Hello, hello, hello…good to see you!
Magical Lesson:
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...
Hello, hello, hello....good to see you!
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...
Hello, hello, hello…good to see you!
Magical Lesson:
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.”
Being...
Hello, hello, hello…good to see you!
Magical Lesson:
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...
Hello, hello, hello…good to see you!
Magical Lesson:
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...
You may have noticed that I am not as active on social media as I used to be – especially on Instagram. I know some of you worry about me being sick or falling into the depths of despair, so I felt it was important to let you to know what tf is up. I didn’t want any of you...
It’s such a joke when anyone – especially a child is called "too sensitive." It’s a soul searing accusation. Using “too sensitive” as a slur is pretty ironic given that it is our sensitivity that makes us the empathetic and magical people that we...
