Susie Morgan, LMFT

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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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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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A Beautiful Redemption

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“No mud, no lotus.”  – Thich Nhat Hanh There are some gifts that come only out of the darkest times of deepest pain – like the lotus from the mud, the rainbow from the storm, the phoenix from the ashes. For some it is intuition so sharp it is like a superpower – for some […]

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Repair – So We Don’t Repeat

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“We repeat what we don’t repair.”  – Christine Langley-Obaugh A sad but hard truth. So often it is that we repeatedly find ourselves drawn into close relationships that parallel and repeat the patterns that hurt us growing up. Perhaps even more tragic is that we can also inadvertently step into patterns of treating others in […]

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The Deepest Wounds

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“There are wounds that never show in the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”  – Laurell K. Hamilton The places that hurt – even if they are deep inside invisible to others – deserve to be acknowledged, held gently, and honored as valid. They don’t have to measure up to […]

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Secure Attachment

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Secure attachment. It is so much more difficult to form secure attachments in our adult relationships, if we did not have this as little ones. Lionhearts, we can repair this!! We can learn to look at our little selves (who went through whatever they did) with loving eyes. And by becoming our own most secure […]

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