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.

Category: Belonging and Identity

  • 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…

  • Mourning Romantic Love

    Mourning Romantic Love

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    The wound of past wishes for romantic love not being fulfilled is churning in my gut as anxiety and grief. I am in mourning for what I wanted but never received. Processing grief.

  • Inheriting Contempt

    Inheriting Contempt

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    My parents left me with a wonderful gift: contempt. I recently realized that this is my default setting in life.It takes me a second to turn off my ego and respond from my core self.

  • 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.

  • Meeting My Mother Wound

    Meeting My Mother Wound

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    Meeting my mother wound is giving me myself back. The abandoned child inside of you will scream until you feed it

  • It’s ok to not be the bigger person with a bully

    It’s ok to not be the bigger person with a bully

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    It’s okay to not be the bigger person; just don’t return that energy to the innocent. I talk about Gaza, Britney Spears, and people healing from abuse.

  • Something is wrong with me – her breakthrough

    Something is wrong with me – her breakthrough

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    The Breakthrough Story “There is something wrong with me,” she repeats over and over again. She desperately needs to find a solution to fix herself and return to normal functioning like she should be. The existential dread consumes her, but she does not realize what it means. It gnaws at…

  • Working with attachment issues alone

    Working with attachment issues alone

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    It seems counterintuitive but often with trauma survivors, we don’t have secure attachments to work with. How to work with them alone.

  • Core Dilemma – wanting to be you and wanting to belong

    Core Dilemma – wanting to be you and wanting to belong

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    Do you feel the internal struggle of wanting to connect with others on a deep level but doing it in a way where you can be authentically yourself? Do you struggle with relationships where you feel you must be one or the other?