“Most human suffering is related to love and loss and the job of therapists is to help people acknowledge, experience, and bear the reality of life — with all its pleasures and heartbreak. The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves…People can never get better without knowing what they know and …
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Nurturing your Inner Child: How Healing from Trauma Requires Us to Re-parent Ourselves
One of the most common exclamations I hear from new adult clients is something along the lines of: "I don't know why I'm reacting this way, I feel like a child!" For those people who have experienced trauma* (which is, let's be honest, pretty much everyone to some degree), this feeling of reacting to a …
Protecting Your Garden: A Lesson on Boundaries
A common side effect of experiencing trauma* is a lack of boundaries in our inter- (between us and others) and intra- (between parts of ourself) personal relationships. A lack of boundaries shows up in a myriad of ways. • Someone forgets to text or call you back and you find yourself convinced that you've done …
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