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The Inevitable Positivity of Trauma Recovery

Healing is dark and painful, until it isn’t.

Feb 14, 2024

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Feb 14, 2024

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True Forgiveness in Three Steps

What you deserve before you forgive, and what you must do to be forgiven completely.

Jan 19, 2024

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Jan 19, 2024

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Building Communities Around Native Plants with “Tallamy Talks” and Generosity

Using the tools Doug Tallamy armed us with to save our ecosystem.

Dec 20, 2023

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Dec 20, 2023

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How a Native Plant Garden Connects You To Zen

Generated by me with DALL-E

Dec 15, 2023

How a Native Plant Garden Connects You To Zen

Dec 15, 2023

Straight ahead and 60 degrees up

The spot in my vision where my abuser lives.

Feb 1, 2024

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Feb 1, 2024

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How to Turn Coping into Healing

You have a good reason for everything you do, including binge-watching CSI.

Jan 16, 2024

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Jan 16, 2024

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The Love I Found At the Bottom of Suicidal Ideation

Jan 10, 2024

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Jan 10, 2024

The Power of Narrative Truth in CPTSD Recovery

A persistent challenge of CPTSD recovery is trying to make sense of a childhood you can barely remember. When memories exist as wreckage…

Dec 29, 2023

Dec 29, 2023

“I feel the way I feel, and I can’t really do much about it,” so I can finally relax.

Healing trauma by letting go, courtesy of Alan Watts.

Dec 12, 2023

“I feel the way I feel, and I can’t really do much about it,” so I can finally relax.

Dec 12, 2023

Who gets to say they’re traumatized?

One of the most common complaints in online trauma communities actually has an answer.

Dec 11, 2023

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Dec 11, 2023

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"Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone." - AW

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