Healing From Harm

Category: Healing Blog

  • The Spectrum of Dissociation

    The Spectrum of Dissociation

    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

    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

    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?

  • Meeting My Mother Wound

    Meeting My Mother Wound

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

  • My favourite resources currently for healing trauma

    My favourite resources currently for healing trauma

    I’ve been knee-deep, healing my next layer of trauma, which is a deep one, and studying various sources of information. These are my favourite resources currently for healing trauma.

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

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

    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

    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…

  • Animal visits and healing trauma

    Animal visits and healing trauma

    An animal visited me today as I’m working on finally healing my deepest traumas with a newfound settlement.

  • Working with attachment issues alone

    Working with attachment issues alone

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

  • A note to all therapists, please don’t do this to trauma survivors ever

    A note to all therapists, please don’t do this to trauma survivors ever

    Open letter to all trauma therapists – never do this