by Robyn Brickel | Jan 24, 2023 | Boundaries, Guest Contributor, Self Care
As the world starts a new year, we start a new day — and every day is an opportunity for growth and change. Every day is a good day to take care of ourselves. You don’t have to start on January 1st with a New Year’s Resolution, and you don’t have to wait until next...
by Rebekah Brown | Jan 19, 2023 | Boundaries, Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Hope, Life Management Skills
Why a schedule is important “Schedule?” You ask. “It can’t be that simple.” I’m not talking about just any old schedule. And I’m not talking about the schedule you think you’re already on. How would you answer the following questions: -Is my day driven by the most...
by Elizabeth Marando | Dec 21, 2022 | Attachment Trauma, Boundaries, Codependency, Guest Contributor, Healing Self-Shame
Children are often raised to be emotional jesters or even emotional objects, but my upbringing represents an unconsidered scenario: being raised as a human stuffed animal. I never realized how harmful my upbringing was until I was nineteen years old and diagnosed with...
by Jeff Spiteri | Dec 15, 2022 | Boundaries, Depression, Emotional Wellness, Feeling Good Enough, Guest Contributor, Hope, Post Traumatic Growth, PTSD, Recovery, Self Care, Suicide Prevention
My Friend Steve: I met my friend Steve in a park on the west side of Chicago in a rougher neighborhood at a homeless feeding. I was on the street at the time and passing through the city riding freight trains to the west coast of the United States. Steve was 17 and...
by Rebekah Brown | Dec 15, 2022 | Boundaries, Guest Contributor, Holiday Stress, Holidays, Hope
I watched as the old mule made one last pass across the field below my Grandmother’s house. Damp earth turned beneath the plow and I knew buried treasure would soon be exposed. My brother and I looked at one another in anticipation. It was the second half of...
by Sunny Lynn, OMC | Dec 8, 2022 | Anxiety, Boundaries, CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Holiday Stress, Holidays, Mindfulness, Self Care, Self-Acceptance
How to Celebrate “The Season” Your Way (as published in The Friday Edition of HeartBalm Healing at https://heartbalm.substack.com) As we roll into November, December, and the new year, it is inevitable that the holiday season will bring challenges, anxiety, fear,...
