What is Normal for you? One thing that has become clear as I continue in my education and trauma recovery coaching is that only after an individual decides to begin healing were they able to face the facts that their childhood was worse than thought. In fact, many start off the bat stating that they’ve […]
Category: Personal Healing Journey
SAYING GOODBYE – AUG 8 2022
Time to say Goodbye For the last few months – since the middle of May – LOSS as been camped at my doorstep. It was then that we decided to sell our little home. This decision wasn’t taken lightly. It was to be our forever home. When we moved in, we told ourselves […]
A LETTER OF SELF COMPASSION – YOU DESERVED BETTER – August 3 2022
Dear Me, My dear little Lisa, I am letting you know that you deserved better treatment. You deserved better. You deserved to be held, cuddled, loved, and treated like you have value and appreciation. You deserved to feel unconditional love, to feel accepted, to be acknowledged, to feel adored, to feel appreciated, to experience healthy […]
PERSONAL GROWTH – SHAME & ACCOUNTABILITY – JUNE 1 2022
Where am I in June 2022? Nearly 4 years into doing the really hard work of trauma recovery, this month I’m looking back. It’s like I was a different person then. Still, I remember the emotional pain and all the thoughts and feelings experienced. For example, I recall the frustration because I felt silenced […]
THERE IS TOO MUCH TO BE – MAY 18 2022
I’m starting to learn about IFS – Internal Family Systems. In looking at my childhood trauma through an IFS lens I’m realizing that many parts are dealing with the same burdens: There is too much to do There is too much to decide There is too much to *be* By the last bullet I […]
DANGLING – MAY 8, 2022
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN LEFT ….. D A N G L I N G ? I have….. many times, literally and metaphorically. Have you noticed how this impacts your nervous system? This is a recent epiphany for me – today in fact. Left Dangling – As a childhood trauma survivor I’ve experienced this on different […]
Is Trauma Recovery Coaching Right for YOU?
To answer this question, it would be helpful to be clear on how therapy and coaching support those who’ve suffered and survived egregious violations. Therapy is a necessary component to trauma recovery. Like any serious injury one goes to hospital or trauma centre to make sure the severe injuries are addressed first. Likewise with […]
HOME – DECEMBER 30, 2021
Thought about the word Home today, as I was walking around a bird sanctuary. What feelings, emotions and thoughts come to mind when you hear the word, Home? For me there is a sense of wholeness, peace, security, safety, calm, and contentment. It hasn’t always been this way. Because of being traumatized as a child, […]
CHANGE
Looking out my living room window I see tree branches moving, I hear the wind blowing against my home, I see rain drops against the window, I see leaves fluttering by carried by the wind. These are signs of a storm and evidence of change. This is proof that autumn has arrived here on the […]
FMS – FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME – Dec 16, 2021
FMS began its inception in the late 1980’s and by 1992 there was a foundation called FMSF. Founded by the parents of Jennifer Freyd, whose father, Peter, was accused by Jennifer’s husband, of sexually abusing Jennifer as a child. Peter and his wife, Pamela, went on the all out attack against their daughter taking her […]