Healing From Harm

Healing From Abuse, Trauma, and Patriarchy

I help women reclaim their power after abuse and trauma.

CPTSD in women is under-recognized, while the harm we deal with is overbearing. Healing requires a return to our innate wisdom and power through matriarchal values and body-based psychology. Stories, education, and programs are available in our menu.

Patriarchy leaves an imprint on abuse and trauma, complicating the healing process. Matriarchal healing is the combination of trauma-informed methods and Mother Nature’s laws of living to restore our instinctual balance between protection and nurturing, attachment and authenticity.

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  • An Islamic Woman and Her Abusive Culture

    An Islamic Woman and Her Abusive Culture

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    My peer support work with a woman survivor of Islamic Abuse. I share the challenges of working with a patriarchal culture normalized.

  • Why freeze when we can feel the rush of survival and then live instead?

    Why freeze when we can feel the rush of survival and then live instead?

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    Mother Nature teaches us how to release the freeze by feeling the rush of survival and then moving on with life.

  • The Revered Scapegoat – When one is lost in moral obligation to our threat

    The Revered Scapegoat – When one is lost in moral obligation to our threat

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    The Revered Scapegoat – When one is lost in moral obligation to our threat and develop “negative” coping mechanisms to survive.

  • Mother Water to Regulate – Matriarchal Healing

    Mother Water to Regulate – Matriarchal Healing

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    Using Mother Nature’s element of water to regulate. A practice of Matriarchal Healing.

  • The Pause – Returning to Wholeness

    The Pause – Returning to Wholeness

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    Enjoy a brief practice to return to wholeness and stillness from the busyness of mind, body, and life. Remove dissociation and numbness

  • The Death of Heaviness

    The Death of Heaviness

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    I float as light as air, feeling a bit like a ghost because it feels so unreal. Am I still here? It feels so light.My heavy body lies dead beside me. I fear that is the real me, and I am just floating in a non-existent realm of fantasy and…

  • Buzzing – In Between War and Peace

    Buzzing – In Between War and Peace

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    In the stillness of peace is the remains of war – the buzzing of what was and what could be. How can I be powerful enough to survive war but not the buzz? Enjoy my poem and entry.

  • Planting Spring Seeds of Healing From Harm

    Planting Spring Seeds of Healing From Harm

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    It’s the season for new beginnings. I find myself at a crossroads regarding my personal care, my professional endeavours, and my return to independence. How shall I plant the seeds I want to grow this spring?

  • Before Him – Exclusive Content

    Before Him – Exclusive Content

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    Nearing fifty, how do I start again with so much more baggage and so less freedom?

  • Before Him

    Before Him

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    I had a dream last night that I was back in the 90’s, before I met him, and I had a chance to restart my life again. Now I near 50 and have found that fire to do so.