You are numbing yourself with alcohol, overworking, or scrolling your phone. Or some other way. But what you know is that you’re not feeling good. You don’t want to need to keep escaping your pain. Or your feelings. You want to be able to feel so you can actually enjoy life. Read this blog for more and some tools to begin healing.
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Read MoreYou are feeling anxious and drained, wondering if there’s hope for this rocky friendship to survive. You aren’t sure what went wrong, or how to move forward from here. We’ve got some helpful, clarifying questions, and supports for you!
Read MoreNo matter what you have been going through or what type of grief you have been facing, at a certain point, the heavy clouds will begin to thin out and some blue skies and sunlight will start to peek through. You might not feel ready to embrace the warmth and the light just yet, but one day, I promise you will smile again. No matter how scorched your world has become, there is always the potential for new growth, sprouting just beneath the surface. Eventually the green bud of renewal will poke up from the earth, with the promise of growth and hope. When you are ready, I am here, with open arms and big hugs. It won’t be an easy journey, but it will be all yours - and therefore uniquely precious.
Read MoreEpigenetics, Family Constellations & Inherited Family Trauma
Family constellations therapy is a beautiful healing modality that can help uncover these sorts of traumas - the ones that have been carried down intergenerationally, an unbroken link in a painful chain, inherited by a later descendant. This modality, established by Bert Hellinger, helps us uncover “entanglements” or “invisible loyalties” that may exist in family systems as a result of unacknowledged trauma or loss.
Read MoreFollow along on my personal journey through time and grief as I share what it was like for me preparing to speak at the 2021 Links Grief Summit and writing Project Proactive’s parent’s guide on helping children grieve.
My hands trembled and my heart started beating quicker as the minutes grew closer. I wasn’t trembling because I was afraid to speak at the Links Grief Summit. I don't have a fear of public speaking. Although the number of participants was way over the 250 mark, I felt at ease. After all, I was speaking virtually, seated comfortably in my cozy office.
Read MoreCreative arts therapy can be deeply moving in the healing of grief, because it helps us create a place to hold our pain, external from ourselves, an object created with the sole purpose of expressing love and loss. People of all ages are able to explore their feelings, reconcile emotional conflicts, foster self-awareness, manage behavior, develop social skills, improve reality orientation, reduce anxiety, heal trauma, increase self-esteem, and find new ways to express what words cannot.
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