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When Self-Compassion Feels Impossible

When Self-Compassion Feels Impossible

A companion post to Self-Compassion Morsels: 31-day drip course''If you’ve learned to rely on your inner critic for survival, self-compassion can feel nearly impossible. It may feel so unfamiliar that it doesn’t make sense, or it can even feel like a threat to the...

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Healing Trauma & the Mystic’s Journey

Healing Trauma & the Mystic’s Journey

After ten years as a trauma therapist, I’ve found myself becoming quite fatigued with the literature on trauma; after a while, it’s all became repetitive and restrictive. What I have found out there feels incomplete, like it unwittingly limits us survivors in our...

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Reflections on my Values

Reflections on my Values

11/11/21 marked ten years for me in private practice. That's a decade, wow! After ten years, I left my last career, and I feel like I'm just getting started with this one.I'm genuinely grateful for all the humans that have trusted me and continue to trust me in being...

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Trauma Therapy

Trauma Therapy

This is for you if you want to enter therapy for your past traumas but feel unsure about the process. Three stages of trauma care Many of my clients sigh with relief when I explain that we won’t be jumping into talking about and processing their traumas immediately....

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Felt Sense Vocabulary

Felt Sense Vocabulary

Finding Words Through the healing process I support clients in turning towards their bodies to process, to feel, to gain clarity, to release, and revivify. Initially this can be complicated by a nervous system that is more often than not in a state of...

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The Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish),  Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples have been stewards of this land for millennia. As a settler on these stolen territories, I am humbled and grateful to gather here, and work to honour the Elders – past, present, and emerging.