The past affects the present in many ways. It might be how you expect your partner to take out the garbage or how you expect to be responded to when you ask for help. There are lots of reasons that …
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Ask Yourself, Does This Belong To Me
Sending love to your ancestors and you. May you feel the gifts of your ancestors. Love, Jen
Ask Yourself, Does This *Anger / Pain / Grief* Belong To Me?
For me, it was anxiety. I always felt a low level of anxiety in the background and wondered where it had come from. As an adult, I could see that same anxiety in my parents. It was their anxiety, and …

Feeling The Same Pain Again
Running from the pain won’t stop the pattern from repeating itself. Your subconscious is trying desperately to heal; it presents you with situation after situation until you pause and get curious. Not in a self-punishing way but in a compassionate, …

Why Does Dissociation Happen?
Dissociation is our mind’s way of coping with overwhelming trauma. When too much happens too fast, our system can’t process it all at once. It’s like the trauma gets frozen in our minds and bodies. To protect us, a part …

Caught in a Pain Loop
The healing is in learning how to meet the pain. It might have been impossible to meet the original pain when we were 5 or 14 or even 20, but now we can step closer. As we start to heal, …

Understanding Outbursts
When we push our emotions down, they get stuck in the body. We have phases where we feel stable, and life goes on until something takes the lid off. It might be your child spilling paint on the carpet, it …

Why Do We Often Experience The Same Patterns of Pain?
Have you ever asked yourself why you end up in the same situation feeling the same pain AGAIN? It might be feeling unnoticed by your boyfriend. Maybe he seems to prioritise everyone and everything else but you. In response, you …

Dark Night of the Soul
Fifteen years ago today, I married my best friend. It was, hands down, the hardest thing I have ever done. We came from different socioeconomic backgrounds, different cultures, different countries, but hardest of all, we came from different religions. We …

Psychotherapy Helps you Get to the Root of your Pain
There is so much that our parents didn’t know about life and were simply unable to teach us. Therapy provides a space to learn tools to help with the mini trauma’s life throws at us. When we have experienced trauma …