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

Christine Knight
Dec 25 min read


Your Reality is a Mirror - Ready to Play?
🌙 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

Christine Knight
Nov 303 min read


Healing Your Parts in Dreamtime
Interweaving Parts Work and Lucid Dreaming, interpreting dreams using Jungian archetype interpretation

Christine Knight
Nov 296 min read


Book Summary: 20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction
Body Felt Sense and Polyvagal Theory for Childhood Trauma Recovery
Body Felt Sense and Polyvagal Theory for Childhood Trauma Recovery

Christine Knight
Nov 282 min read


Book Summary: The Wisdom of the Enneagram
Summary and Analysis of:
The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types
by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson.

Christine Knight
Nov 265 min read


Book Summary and Analysis: "Focusing" by Eugene T. Gendlin
Focusing by Eugene Gendlin is a small but profound book written with direct steps to begin returning to our body and learning how to communicate with it. Self-help therapy as well as using it alongside therapy or hypnotherapy.

Christine Knight
Nov 244 min read


Your Thoughts Create Your Reality: How Changing Your Narrative Heals the Past, Transforms the Present, and Shapes the Future
Your Thoughts Create Your Reality: How Changing Your Narrative Heals the Past, Transforms the Present, and Shapes the Future

Christine Knight
Nov 2217 min read


Effective Nervous System Regulation Techniques: Nervous System Calming Methods
Your Thoughts Create Your Reality: How Changing Your Narrative Heals the Past, Transforms the Present, and Shapes the Future

Christine Knight
Nov 213 min read


The Fawn Response: Why You Disappear to Keep Others Happy (And How to Come Back to Yourself)
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

Christine Knight
Nov 1917 min read


The 5 Wounds That Keep You From Being Yourself: An IFS & Shadow Work Perspective
"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."

Christine Knight
Nov 1816 min read


“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose.”— Viktor Frankl
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

Christine Knight
Nov 184 min read


Exercise in Self-Forgiveness
Exercise in Self-forgiveness

Christine Knight
Nov 162 min read


A Timeline of Trauma-Informed Therapy That helped Me Heal from C-PTSD
Internal Family Systems for healing anxiety and childhood trauma C-PTSD

Christine Knight
Feb 116 min read


The Best Tools & Guides for Healing Childhood Trauma & Complex PTSD
Internal Family Systems IFS for healing complex-PTSD and childhood trauma and anxiety and depression

Christine Knight
Feb 113 min read


How Do Adverse Childhood Experiences Affect Our Adult Life?
The 1972 Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE's) Score study was one of the first studies showing direct correlation to adult physical health.

Christine Knight
Feb 118 min read


Moral Injury: What It Is and How To Heal It
Internal Family Systems IFS for emotional healing Moral Injury

Christine Knight
Jun 13, 20236 min read


Podcast Interview on Heal Thrive Dream with Karen Robinson, LISW
Internal Family Systems IFS for emotional healing, shadow work, and inner child work

Christine Knight
Jun 10, 20233 min read


Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique Changed My Life
How QHHT completely changed the trajectory of my life and was the beginning to becomine fully conscious of my life and "reality"

Christine Knight
Apr 30, 20203 min read
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