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10 Tips For Times Of Transition
As I wrote in Navigating The Space Between Stories, many of us are experiencing more change, more quickly, with more uncertainty, than we’re used...
Navigating The Space Between Stories
Ever since things started opening back up again after the pandemic, I'm very aware of how much change we're all facing. We are definitely in the...
If You’re The One With Nervous System Privilege Caring For Someone With Disorganized Attachment…
In Understanding Attachment Styles: A Key to Trauma-Informed Dating & Relating, we talked about how understanding your attachment style...
Understanding Attachment Styles: Anxious/ Ambivalent Attachment & Trauma-Informed Dating
In Understanding Attachment Styles: A Key to Trauma-Informed Dating, Part 1, we talked about how understanding your attachment style (and learning...
Understanding Attachment Styles: A Key to Trauma-Informed Dating, Part 1
Considering what a risky, potentially activating, possibly fun experience dating can be, I wanted to take some time to discuss how understanding...
“White Crow Moments”: The Ecstasies & Risks Of Spiritual Experiences
“If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be...
When You’re Terrified Of Intimacy
I have a soft spot in my heart for people who both crave and fear intimacy. And I especially feel tender towards couples or besties who have...
Getting Out Of The Power Game
We can't read the news these days without reflecting on power and how those who shamelessly abuse power are destroying the world we know. The...
The Difference Between Healing & Curing
Although we have a ways to go, the zeitgeist is catching up to the idea that 85-90% of medical conditions are caused by or exacerbated by...
MIND OVER MEDICINE + INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS: Getting To Know “Parts” Involved With Medical Conditions, Part 2
If you missed Part 1 of this series on the marriage of the Six Steps To Healing Yourself with Internal Family Systems (IFS), you can catch up in...
MIND OVER MEDICINE + INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS: Getting To Know “Parts” Involved With Medical Conditions, Part 1
When I first wrote Mind Over Medicine in 2012, I wasn’t aware of Internal Family Systems (IFS). But for 6 years, I had been writing daily love...
The 5 D’s of Coercive Control: Double Binds, Double Speak, Double Standards, Double Vision & DARVO
With all the autocratic rulers seeking world domination these days, and with more and more awareness of how power hungry narcissists do not have our...