Freedom for All
It’s summertime again. Some people love summer, but it really isn’t my thing. I don’t do heat. My skin is translucent. And since becoming a mother, the added stress of having children home...
7 Reasons the Love You Want is Hard to Find
After a childhood of relational trauma, finding love can feel like an impossible feat. As our patterns of rejection, abandonment and abuse repeat, we can reach a level of...
The Inconvenient Truth
In my life, I have searched for many things. I have sought out love. I have tried to find peace. But more than anything, it seems like my life has been one constant search for clarity. Who am...
5 Reasons You Might be Waiting for Your Life to Start
I was watching a movie last night and the actors had a conversation that stuck with me. They were talking about the external milestones of life. They were discussing buying houses and having...
The Controller’s Power
I have been on this recovery journey for a while now. I have tried many approaches over the years. But for the past 10 years, I have taken myself to new unconscious depths and traveled through...
Family First
This weekend I joined the billions who obsessed over the royal wedding. Maybe I didn’t obsess, but I definitely watched it. And I am not ashamed of that. My love seeker was a little...
Bringing in the New
Most of us have been on this journey for a long time. We have been searching for peace and healing for years. We have sought out the answers to our pain for years. We would most certainly call...
Dear Mother
Mother’s Day is here again. This will be my 7th Mother’s Day without a mother. That isn’t true, is it? It has been 7 years since I cut you off. But I never really had a mother. This year, I...
5 Ways We Sabotage Ourselves and Why It Makes Sense
When we grow up with complex trauma, we learn survival skills. These survival skills are incredibly useful when we are children. They may not be as helpful as we think they are, but they...
