Pro Tip: What to Do When You're Afraid
/Over time you’ll learn how to detect and channel the energy of fear before it causes an unconscious reaction, and you’ll learn how to use it as part of the emotional guidance system that you’re equipped with. For today, just know that fear can be a helpful feeling as we learn to work with it.
Read MoreSelf Care for Emotional Trauma
/Typically when you’re on the edge of expansion, conflict occurs because opening to life is in direct opposition to the unconscious strategies you’ve employed to keep you safe. Growth requires confronting our limits, but confronting our limits feels incredibly threatening. If symptoms have been dormant, like anxiety, night sweats, irritability, lack of focus/concentration, digestion issues, etc., they start coming back just when you start moving forward.
Read MoreWhat is C-PTSD? with 5 Suggestions for Moving Deeper into Healing
/CPTSD develops as a healthy response to unhealthy circumstances.
Read MoreYou're Not Broken
/I’ve done my best within the limits of language to describe the human experience in a way that might make sense of your inner conflict and help you start to create a little more harmony. I know from experience that by getting to know each of my parts and their unique needs and desires, I’ve gotten to know more of me. That’s allowed me to accept myself more fully and to know in my mind-body-spirit that I am not broken. And neither are you.
Read MoreWhy Striving for Stability Nearly Ruined My Life
/In striving for stability, I tamed the wild right out of myself, and with it went desire, passion, excitement, and joy. Stalking stability killed the thriving star, the alive parts of me.
Read MoreThe Top 3 Reasons Why You're Not Being Heard in Your Relationships...And How to Fix Them
/It’s so painful [frustrating, annoying, maddening, etc.] when your partner talks over you, rolls their eyes, leaves the room, dismisses you, or just plain shuts you out. ALL YOU WANT IS TO BE HEARD!
Read MoreThe Freedom That Comes With Owning "I Don't Know What I Am Doing"
/So the next time you think to yourself, “I don’t know what I’m doing,” remember that most of us do not. Most of us live under the illusive spell that we do until life comes along and throws us a curveball. WHA-BAM! And we’re shocked out of our daydream that we know WTF is going on. The truth is: we’re all just trying to figure out how to handle the next situation that’s in front of us.
Read MoreAre you valuing somebody else's opinion too much?
/When we place someone’s opinion of us above our naturally glorious state, we short change ourselves and the world of our authenticity, of who we were created to be, of the LIGHT that we ARE.
Read MoreHow do I know if someone is safe for me?
/Chances are, you’ve become so accustomed to watching others and scanning your external environment that you’ve lost touch with what’s going on inside. And your gut response IS the one you can trust…if only you could feel it and believe that the information it’s sharing is, in fact, accurate.
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