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: Nervous System

  • Healing Triggers

    Healing Triggers

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    Healing triggers is complicated, but it can be done. Most therapies will work around them with coping tools which shut them down. This is fine in the short term to help build the capacity to work with them, but in the long run, it creates fragmentation of the psyche and…

  • Biomimicry – Using Nature’s Principles to Heal

    Biomimicry – Using Nature’s Principles to Heal

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    I have been doing this for years without knowing its name. I mimic Mother Nature every day to regulate my nervous system, process my trauma, restore my true self, and build my values and beliefs. She is my mentor in every way possible, and it works.

  • 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

  • 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?

  • Healing the extremes of trauma responses – the pendulation effect

    Healing the extremes of trauma responses – the pendulation effect

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    Healing the extremes of trauma responses – the pendulation effect. Reflecting on the ping-pong effect of trauma responses

  • The Purpose of Catastrophizing

    The Purpose of Catastrophizing

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    Those with anxiety know this. Any given experience will undo us; if only we could control it, we would be ok. What if there is a purpose to catastrophizing?

  • 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.