It’s no secret that journaling is extremely helpful in recovery from trauma because it helps us express and process our emotions in a healthy way. So on the topic, have you ever tried third person journaling?…
Things are not always as they seem in recovery. What you think is an underlying cause of all that you strive to heal from, may not necessarily be as cut and dry, as black and…
Sometimes I need a little perspective in life to see how far I’ve come. That’s just human nature though, to be able to put things into perspective. We can’t always see that when we’re right…
This is a concept that I really had a bit of a light bulb moment with recently. On a side note, it sure would be nice to have more light bulb moments in healing wouldn’t…
That may sound like an odd question, at least it does to me. I say that because I was raised in the church, so for me to sit here and have a realization that religion…
The title of this post might seem a little odd, or “out there”, but if you’ll allow me to expand upon it a bit, I’d love to share this insight I discovered recently. As a…
Everybody deserves to have a rescuer, but as survivors of childhood sexual abuse or any type of abuse, often times we had no such person to save us. Or, we had people in our lives…
I’m starting out this post as somewhat of a “thinking out loud” scenario. Actually I suppose you could look at many of my posts here on this blog in that way. I write about how…
Therapy is not something that one would normally refer to as “fun”, but every once in a while a break from the norm during a session can yield some interesting results and put a different kind…
That might not be as easy an answer as you may think, should we have anger or empathy towards a toxic parent? Or another person in our life for that matter who we could consider toxic?…
