Tag: Trauma Recovery

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Trauma Recovery is the sacred process of reclaiming the soul from the frozen landscapes of the past. This is the work of regaining consciousness and sovereignty, tending to the psyche’s fragments with devotion. It is the integration of the wound into the Self—not as a fix, but as a transformation—allowing the survivor to move from the hyper-vigilance of survival to the spaciousness of a lived life.

  • Container

    Container

    Our astounding capacities for healing are what can save us.

  • Sacred Mother

    Sacred Mother

    Sacred, complex, and emotionally powerful, the Mother Archetype is the most influential pattern in the collective unconscious. Consequently, relationships with mothers often feel fraught.

  • Beyond Self-Actualization

    Beyond Self-Actualization

    It can take a lifetime to deal with whatever hand our parents and caste dealt us—so much so that growth needs may never be realized. Even so, there is hope.

  • Mulling

    Mulling

    Deprivations and restrictions are inevitable. Throughout our lifetime, we’ll encounter ordeals that push us underwater, plunging us from times of growth to times of deficiency. Captive to what’s too strong for us, we wait for deliverance.

  • Good Help is Hard to Find

    Good Help is Hard to Find

    The goal of psychotherapy is healthy, reciprocal relationships with others. It is also to become aware of when others unconsciously manipulate you to get their own needs met. If you can do that after receiving help, you have arrived.

  • If People Were Stray Animals

    If People Were Stray Animals

    If people were stray animals, we would all be worth rescuing. Groups of rescuers would band together, forming networks whose only purpose is to give care and comfort to the abandoned.

  • Flannel Shirt

    Flannel Shirt

    I am driving down Fourth Street, and my heart aches. It aches and pulls all the time since my husband died, but most of the time I keep ice on it.

  • Fear is the Mind-Killer

    Fear is the Mind-Killer

    Now that I’ve been a widow for a year and a half, I’ve been reminded yet again about how fragile life is, and more specifically how fragile I am. I am a limited resource, living on limited resources.

  • The True Practice of Psychology

    The True Practice of Psychology

    The true practice of psychology is human and responds compassionately to the needs of individual human beings.

  • Doing the Work

    Doing the Work

    Life isn’t fair and there is no observable grand scheme for rewarding good and punishing evil in the temporal world. Those who are good, generous, and even innocent can and do suffer beyond measure.