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The Other Side of Resistance
Imagine a world full of people who could handle their emotions, people who could act in line with...
What is a Trauma Bond?
Have you ever been in a relationship, at work or in your personal life, that made no sense in...
Values and Vitality – What is Your Life Direction?
There's a Rosella in the plum tree, all greens and reds, melodic and wild, stepping from plum to...
Working With Strong Emotions – Name it to Tame It
Anger comes like a bushfire, ripping through your thought processes and threatening to uproot...
Emotional Flexibility – Of Grasses and Storms
Can you hear the wind? It whistles and rips, invisible waves of energy moving the objects of the...
How Do We Handle the Pain of Being Human?
The human brain is a magical creation. It has all the survival components of other mammals and...
Emotional Avoidance and The Paradox of Control
Think of a time when something hard happened in your life and the emotions connected with that...
Trauma and Recovery – The Phases
As previously explored here, trauma creates a tangled mess of emotions, sensations, thoughts and...
Healing Trauma – Recalibrating Your Nervous System
The experience of trauma, be it abuse, combat, relational trauma or cult involvement, has a...
Why we get lost in thought
This week, as I sat out on my porch, watching the last days of spring roll past, the mulberries...