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Make Room for Grief

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:February 1, 2019
  • Post category:Emotions

Grief is as individual and as universal as a fingerprint.

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How to Leave Your Practitioner

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:January 2, 2019
  • Post category:Find Support

"Can we talk about what completing treatment and stopping would look like?"

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Elements of Refuge

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:December 1, 2018
  • Post category:Find Support

Healing practitioners can provide a calm refuge for overwhelmed survivors by offering a stable container around logistics, emotions, and the relationship.

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When Help Means Rescue

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:November 1, 2018
  • Post category:Find Support

Helpers remove obstacles and add nourishment and support. They help us become more ourselves, rather than transforming us into someone else.

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When Help Means Danger

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:October 2, 2018
  • Post category:Find Support

When the first people to care for us also hurt us, of course it will be difficult to manage relationships with practitioners.

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Grow Away from Enmeshment

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:September 2, 2018
  • Post category:Relating

As you repair your boundaries and sense of self, rather than feeling woven together with someone else, you will gradually feel more solid in yourself.

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The Right Distance from Family

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:August 1, 2018
  • Post category:Relating

Whether we connect with our parents every day, once a year, or not at all, we can reduce the internal charge we carry toward them.

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Balance for Your Inner Guardian

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:July 1, 2018
  • Post category:Boundaries, Full Self

As your Inner Guardian becomes more integrated into the present, you can offer a more balanced, skillful response to present-time threats.

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Resonate With Loneliness

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:June 1, 2018
  • Post category:Emotions

Every time we turn toward our own experience with warmth, we strengthen our Inner Nurturer.

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Practice Kind Language

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:May 1, 2018
  • Post category:Wider Narratives

When we practice non-ableist language, it gives us more room to be imperfect humans, internally and externally.

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