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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  • Why freeze when we can feel the rush of survival and then live instead?

    Why freeze when we can feel the rush of survival and then live instead?

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    Mother Nature teaches us how to release the freeze by feeling the rush of survival and then moving on with life.

  • The Revered Scapegoat – When one is lost in moral obligation to our threat

    The Revered Scapegoat – When one is lost in moral obligation to our threat

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    The Revered Scapegoat – When one is lost in moral obligation to our threat and develop “negative” coping mechanisms to survive.

  • Mother Water to Regulate – Matriarchal Healing

    Mother Water to Regulate – Matriarchal Healing

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    Using Mother Nature’s element of water to regulate. A practice of Matriarchal Healing.

  • 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

  • The Death of Heaviness

    The Death of Heaviness

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    I float as light as air, feeling a bit like a ghost because it feels so unreal. Am I still here? It feels so light.My heavy body lies dead beside me. I fear that is the real me, and I am just floating in a non-existent realm of fantasy and…

  • 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…

  • News for Returning to Her, healing from harm in 2025

    News for Returning to Her, healing from harm in 2025

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    News for Returning to Her, healing from harm in 2025 – exclusive membership, published essay on The Unwanted Woman, The First Church of Matriarchy, and more.