Tag: healing trauma
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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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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?
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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.
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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
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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.
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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?
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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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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
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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?