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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  • Shadow’s Eve – Happy Halloween

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    Mother Nature in the Northern Hemisphere starts to hibernate around this time of year. Her descent into darkness increases until the Winter Solstice and after, she will experience full hibernation until Spring. What does she tell us, her creatures, to do? To follow her and descent into our deep rest.…

  • With CPTSD, the familiar can be wrong

    With CPTSD, the familiar can be wrong

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    With CPTSD, the familiar can be wrong, and the scary experiences can be right. How do we distinguish the difference?

  • The dance between safety and freedom

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    The juiciness of healing trauma is the balance between feeling safe and free. Mother Nature teaches us how. Enjoy my story.

  • Mother Nature’s Thanksgiving

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    I don’t celebrate Thanksgiving as it is a colonial holiday. I celebrate Autumn as Nature removes what is unnecessary for a healthy hibernation and a stronger rebirth in the spring. We also celebrate her harvest of summer’s growth. Nature’s cycles are important lessons. We too, should take this time to…

  • Masculine and feminine duality is man-made, not natural.

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    The masculine/feminine duality is man-made to split our psyche. It is not nature-based. Do you think a bear, a dolphin, a spider, or a lizard behaves instinctually and then wonders if it is acting in its feminine or masculine energy? We act out of survival, desire, emotions, and purpose. Most…

  • OCD and Trauma

    OCD and Trauma

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    OCD and Trauma – What was once thought of as a neuropathology of the brain, OCD is now being recognized as a symptom of trauma. I believe it is one of the deepest.

  • The fragments of shifting from an old self to a new self

    The fragments of shifting from an old self to a new self

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    The good phase of healing – from caterpillar to butterfly – the fragments of shifting from and old self to a new self

  • What is a Matriarchal Mother?

    What is a Matriarchal Mother?

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    Happy Mother’s Day! I am celebrating the matriarchal mother in a world where patriarchy distorts motherhood. If you are interested in watching a YouTube video of my matriarchal sermon, please visit the link below.

  • The Spectrum of Dissociation

    The Spectrum of Dissociation

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    From daydreaming to dissociative identity disorder, the spectrum of dissociation can be creative to destructive. And what is Structural Dissociation?

  • The Jesus Archetype and Divine Femininity

    The Jesus Archetype and Divine Femininity

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    How does the celebration of Jesus fit into healing trauma and divine femininity? I call his archetype the revered scapegoat – Half worshipped, half demonized.