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Unseen Scars: How Early Emotional Trauma Shapes Our Physical Health

From the earliest moments of life, the quality of love and bonding we receive as young children from ages 0 to 3 plays a critical role in our future well-being. When this early environment is shaped by emotionally immature, unavailable, or narcissistic caregivers, the impact can extend far beyond our emotional health, manifesting as physical illness in later life.

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The Bullsh*t Way Girls Are Raised Can Literally Make Us Sick 

Here’s a problematic truth: the way boys and girls are raised from a young age is vastly lopsided. Look at how it plays out - little boys get all the kudos and positive reinforcement for what they do. "Wow, you climbed that structure like a monkey!" or "Nice work, that tower of blocks is epic!" But girls? We get complimented on how we are, not what we do. "Aw, don't you look pretty today?" or "Such a sweet little smile!"…

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Please Read if You Are Going Through a Hard Time

This is for all the people out there who are having a hard time right now. This is for all the people right now that don’t feel like they are at the inspirational part of their life story, they’re in the fire swamp battling the ROUSes. This is for all the people that are finding it challenging to wake up each day and do the basic things they need to do…

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Make new year's resolutions without shame or guilt

It’s that time of year again, when we all decide that we need new year's resolutions to overhaul our lives, our exercise plans, or our eating habits. I always had a love/hate relationship with new year's resolutions until I realized why they rub me the wrong way. New...

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Enough with the sandpaper of suffering!

I’ve been going through a rough patch lately. My physical and emotional health hasn’t been the best and most days it’s felt like I’m having to push through. I think that’s true for a lot of us — I’ve heard from friends near and far about how burned out we all are and...

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What is Thought Work?

“When we change the way we look at things, the things we look at change” ~Wayne Dyer Recently, I wrote about neuroplasticity and how to use polysensory mental practice as a way to change the structure and function of your nervous system. Today I want to talk about...

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How to turn hate and fear into love

One of the most difficult things I’ve done is learn how to love the person who abused me. When I was 26 years old, I made the incredibly difficult decision to cut my mother out of my life. In child abuse survivor circles, this is often called going “no contact” or NC...

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Do you know how to be proud of yourself?

The other day, my mentor asked me, “Are you proud of yourself?” I had just finished running my new course, Unconventional Tools for Healing, for the first time and was telling her how pleased I was to get some really lovely feedback from the participants. I stopped...

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“You’re sick because you want people to see you as a person, not an object.”

I heard this sentence so clearly as I woke up in the middle of the night a few nights ago. I’d been reading Ram Dass’ Be Here Now just before I fell asleep and I’d had vibrant, psychedelic dreams about the nature of consciousness. (I guess that’s what I get for reading Be Here Now right before bed.) I don’t remember the dreams per se, but about an hour later I woke from a very vivid dream to those words...

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