Susie Morgan, LMFT

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Just Because It Feels True

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“The mountain is never as big as it appears.  You’re never as small as you believe.”  – Steve Marboli We can be so hijacked into believing something IS true because it FEELS true!! This is especially the case when we have a history of frightening or painful experiences. The reality based information often exists in […]

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To Speak

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“Darling, you feel heavy because you are too full of truth.  Open your mouth more, let the truth exist somewhere other than inside your body.”  – Della Hicks-Wilson A significant factor in trauma being trapped, unresolved in our nervous systems is the inability to respond in the way that we needed to at the time […]

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Doggles

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So much of what we do in my household involves the buddy system!! Jericho has been going with Sophie to her acupuncture appointments for a while now (the acupuncture works miracles for Soph’s hips and back – and their vet is wonderful and welcomes the bengals coming to increase their socialization and learn the vet […]

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A Look At What’s Inside!

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A client once told me, “ I keep referring people to EMDR therapy, but they aren’t getting what I’m getting with you!”   The content of The EMDR Readiness Course represents much of what I have identified is that difference.   I crystallized the most powerful components of the work I do with clients to […]

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It’s Over

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“Over.  It’s over, she said.  It was many years later when the quiet realization dawned on her.  It’s over, her heart whispered.”  – Lang Leav PTSD is said to be a disorder of time and space – the nervous system becomes confused and reacts in the present as if it is the past – it […]

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Trust Your Gut

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“Never discredit your gut instinct.  You are not paranoid.  Your body can pick up on bad vibrations.  If something deep inside of you says something is not right about a person or situation, trust it.”  – Unknown I often observe to my clients that their experiences with early trauma seem to have given them spidey-senses. […]

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For The First Time

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“We are learning to live again, and, for many of us, it is the first time.”  – Emilie Autumn This honestly brings tears to my eyes, as it makes me think of my clients doing the work of EMDR therapy to repair what – for most of them – has been a lifetime of trauma.

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What Happened?

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“The question we should be asking is not WHAT’S WRONG with that child but WHAT HAPPENED to that child.”  – Oprah I am ecstatic that this much needed paradigm shift is beginning to occur – and that Oprah is using her powerful voice to help it gain traction!!! Oprah’s presentation on Developmental Trauma is airing […]

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