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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  • The Pause – Returning to Wholeness

    The Pause – Returning to Wholeness

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    Enjoy a brief practice to return to wholeness and stillness from the busyness of mind, body, and life. Remove dissociation and numbness

  • Buzzing – In Between War and Peace

    Buzzing – In Between War and Peace

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    In the stillness of peace is the remains of war – the buzzing of what was and what could be. How can I be powerful enough to survive war but not the buzz? Enjoy my poem and entry.

  • Matriarchal Therapy – Exclusive Content

    Matriarchal Therapy – Exclusive Content

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    What is the matriarchal therapy? Using our protective instincts to remove threats and heal instead of therapizing everything.

  • Doing Nothing is Our Return to Freedom

    Doing Nothing is Our Return to Freedom

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    Finding our liberty comes with finding our inner peace and enjoyment. Here is a story of healing and what it could mean for our world.

  • 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…

  • From Panic to Relief

    From Panic to Relief

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    Moving from panic to relief. My go-to exercises.

  • 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.

  • 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 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?