After a recent session focusing on inner child healing, a client of mine wrote this beautiful poem. I received permission from her to share it, because I think it so powerfully captures

If you will indulge me…Take your right hand and begin massaging your left index finger. Start out gently and slowly use more force so that y

My tween years were filled with adventures, made invaluable by my close-knit and friendly circle. I remember spending a whole summer at an o

You’re a woman in her early thirties, dressed nicely, and on the bus coming home from work. It’s about 7pm, and dusk is arriving. You take y

When I was born, I was given up for adoption. It would take me nearly thirty years to understand how much this has affected me. Speaking as a fellow sufferer and an enthusiastic researcher, I know that developmental trauma comes with challenges not necessarily faced by those enduring adulthood shock trauma. It has taken me nearly five years of working with Somatic Experiencing (SE) to become regulated enough to write such a blog post. In SE and several other forms of somatic

In a recent conversation, my mom asked me why some people become addicted to drugs while others do not. I love when conversations go in a ch