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

It's Not You Failing at Your New Year's Resolutions - Understanding the Protectors That Destroy What You're Building

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.

What helps your nervous system more than propranolol for anxiety - Why You're Stuck (And What Your Nervous System Actually Needs)

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

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

Body Felt Sense and Polyvagal Theory for Childhood Trauma Recovery Body Felt Sense and Polyvagal Theory for Childhood Trauma Recovery

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.

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.

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

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

Exercise in Self-forgiveness

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