Healing

Everyone Has Rocks

How do you heal from the emotional boo-boos from childhood? Acknowledge them. Just because they may not be visible to others, doesn't mean they aren't right there under the surface. Every once in awhile you may see a little glimpse,...

Healing Can Be a Lifestyle

Healing is not a destination, depending on one's reaction to trauma. Mind you, NOT the amount of trauma. Healing can be a lifestyle. It can be something you have to dance with every day, or some days, or monthly and seasonally... When something...

When You Are So Deep in the Forest, You Can't See the Trees

A person who has consistently been mean asked a very close friend of mine if "she stays as far away from social media as possible..." out of embarrassment of being associated with me.Ouch. Everyone. Every one...has secrets, traumas, quirks, challenges,...

Lessons from a Graveyard

The best therapy workshop I ever did was from an organization called the Hoffman institute. You stay at one of their residential treatment facilities, they have them all over the country, and I believe out of the country…for seven days. All you work on...

Friendships

Friendships, for women so it seems, is more complicated and confusing than for men. It is potentially the most emotionally rewarding or deeply painful of any other relationship a girl could have. Maybe it's just me, but no other relationship has made me...

Emotional Boo Boo's are Like Rogue Vines

Emotional boo boo’s are like rogue weed vines… mow them over and they’ll multiply and resurface at the most inopportune time. The best weed killer is within you and isn't nearly as difficult as the weeds want you to believe! What I learned about weeds is...

Girls On The Run (because they want to) Maine

I was a proud volunteer at one of the coolest…funnest…events ever… Girls On The Run 5 k Parrrrrty! Music and games…. girls, Moms…and Dads…with hair painted neon colors and hot pink tutu’s! From Girls on the Run website: We inspire girls... Girls on the...

Triggers

A trigger for me is any stimulus that causes my mind to go back to a memory and experience again a strong positive or negative emotion The Holidays, for example, when The Nutcracker Ballet comes to town … as soon as I see the ads for it or hear the music -...