Category: Belonging and Identity
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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?