The Game Afoot: Repatterning Old Patterns
The Game Afoot: Repatterning Old Patterns (as published in The Friday Edition of HeartBalm Healing at https://heartbalm.substack.com) There is a game afoot! It is there lying in wait for the next time you do something or act a certain way that mirrors an old pattern...
Have You Ever Felt Like You Were a Mistake?
In a meditation about regret I did recently, I was asked to allow a moment to arise in which I felt regret – to not direct it but just be open to what needed to show itself. My thoughts traveled to, “I regret being born.” I almost popped out of the...Healing Childhood Trauma Part 2
Meaning—What does the loss & its impact say about me? I sat on the back porch of our custom-built little house in the backwoods of Virginia. I had everything I’d ever dreamed of except for one thing. A life. I thought I’d be free. Instead, I was drowning in...
Therapists: Downplaying Trauma Perception Can Be Harmful
***TRIGGER WARNING: The following post discusses sensitive topics, including sexual trauma.*** Downplaying CPTSD It’s not a comfortable feeling knowing that as clinicians we get things wrong. It is inevitable that we do – to err is human. We learn to try to...