Understanding How Trauma & Adverse Childhood Experiences Impact Emotional & Physical Health

here's what most year-end reflections miss: They focus on external achievements—what you did, what you checked off, what you accomplished. They don't ask the deeper questions: How have you grown internally? What patterns have you been repeating? What's still blocking your transformation? What theme has been weaving through your entire year—and what does it reveal about what's coming next? The Part of You That's Been Growing in the Dark: A Year-End Practice for Seei

Because here's the truth nobody wants to say out loud: the people who are supposed to love us unconditionally are often the ones who trigger us the most. The place that's supposed to feel like "home" can feel like walking back into a battlefield where all your old wounds are waiting.

You Think Setting Boundaries Will Protect Your Energy This Holiday Season (Here's Why You'll Still Leave Exhausted) - Gift the best gift this holiday season to yourself - your Self-energy.

When the Holidays Bring Anxiety and Depression: What Your Parts Need Beyond "Joy and Cheer"

How to Survive Family Holidays Without Losing Yourself: An IFS Guide to Coming Home

3-card Pull Reality Bending Game based on Medici, Reality Transurfing, and Internal Family Systems shadow work

Grief of loss, Grief of Betrayal, Grief of self-abandonment... All need your presence and your compassion

🌙 The Mirror Game: Where Inner Life Meets Outer Reality Have you ever noticed how your outer world starts to shift when something inside of you does? A conversation lands differently. An opportunity appears out of nowhere. An old pattern suddenly feels complete. Your Reality is a Mirror It’s as if reality itself is reflecting your inner growth — waiting patiently for you to see yourself clearly enough to choose a new variation. That’s the essence of The Mirror Game: Inner Li

Interweaving Parts Work and Lucid Dreaming, interpreting dreams using Jungian archetype interpretation

Fawning is a Nervous System Response: Difference between fawning & people-pleasing The impossible dilemma in the body Costs of fawning (relational, somatic, emotional) Shadow aspects Healing steps Signs you have a fawn response Practical action steps ✅ IFS framework of the Inner System: Fawn Part as protective Firefighter Exiles carrying abandonment and unworthiness Self-energy as the goal Unblending and reparenting

"We are not our wounds, and we are not our masks. We are the True Self that existed before the wound and still exists beneath the mask—waiting to be liberated through awareness and compassion."

This article focuses on: How trauma patterns (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) disguise themselves as clarity How to tell when your system is reacting vs. when your Self-energy is responding Tools from Deb Dana, Jan Winhall, and IFS to map those inner shifts How to create pause, presence, and eventually choice from the body up

The underlying root cause as to why we keep repeating toxic relationship patterns and self-sabotaging our lives

Balance the emotions around estrangment during the holidays

Understanding Internal Family Systems Therapy

Internal Family Systems for healing anxiety and childhood trauma C-PTSD

Combining Gene Keys and Internal Family Systems for emotional healing of anxiety and depression

Internal Family Systems IFS for emotional healing Moral Injury

Internal Family Systems IFS Mapping Parts

I first saw Richard Schwartz, PhD a few years ago during an online summit hosted by Diane Poole Heller, PhD, and could sense there was something unique and attention-worthy to the Internal Family Systems (IFS) psychotherapy model he was explaining in the treatment of attachment disorders and Complex PTSD. However, I must not have been ready for it at that time because I got sidetracked in grad school studying Mental Health Counseling and didn't take the time to do a deeper di