Healing From Harm

Tag: healing trauma

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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

  • What is a Matriarchal Mother?

    What is a Matriarchal Mother?

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    Happy Mother’s Day! I am celebrating the matriarchal mother in a world where patriarchy distorts motherhood. If you are interested in watching a YouTube video of my matriarchal sermon, please visit the link below.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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?