by Elisabeth | Dec 21, 2016 | Memory Repression, Recovery
5 Reasons Recovery is Not Fair & 3 Things You Can Do About It During the past ten years, I have been on a recovery journey full of miracles and pain which surpassed my greatest imagination. And over the past three years, I have worked with many survivors of...
by Elisabeth | Sep 28, 2016 | Recovery
When it comes to trauma recovery, I often hear concerns from my clients about how change will manifest for them. Change is scary for survivors. During the traumatic years, change was never good for us. Needless to say, the idea of purposefully instilling inner...
by Elisabeth | Sep 14, 2016 | Defenders, Freedom Fighters, Memory Repression, Recovery
The Darkness I traveled this past Sunday and Monday. As a single mother without extended family, traveling isn’t easy. I have to ask friends for help, or pay for overnight babysitters. Neither option is simple for me. But as an extrovert who loves interpersonal...
by Elisabeth | Aug 3, 2016 | Defenders, Recovery
As a trauma survivor, I have spent the majority of my life in my head. My body was not a safe place to reside. It held all the emotions and pain of my childhood. It held all the reminders of my past trauma. So I dissociated and stayed in my head. It was safe in...
by Elisabeth | May 4, 2016 | Defenders, Parenting
It’s almost Mother’s Day again. It comes every year without fail. I try not to play the “society says we celebrate this today” game, but it is hard when I grew up in an environment where conforming was a life or death situation. And even if I attempted to ignore...
