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.

Tag: shame

  • Working With Shame

    Working With Shame

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    Unlike guilt, a normal response to making a mistake where amends can be made, shame is the weight of wrongness forced upon you by others who harm instead of heal.

  • 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…

  • 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?