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Lionhearted

April 13, 2018 by Susie Morgan

“You can’t kill the spirit of the lionhearted.” -Erin Van Vuren No matter how exhausted we are – or how discouraged – or how hurt – we must remember that at our very core, we are Lionhearts. Thanks to Erin Van Vuren for the wonderful original post!

Filed Under: Anxiety & Depression, Attachment, Hope & Healing, Relationships, Trauma, Uncategorized Tagged With: Anxiety, Depression, Family, Healing, Posttraumatic Growth, Relationships, Secure Attachment, Transformation, Trauma Therapy

Feeling Attached

April 12, 2018 by Susie Morgan

“It turns out that the ability to step into the world on our own often stems from the knowledge that there is someone beside us whom we can count on – this is the dependency paradox.” -Amir Levine & Rachel Heller in “Attached” The book “Attached.” by Levine and Heller does an incredible job of […]

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Kitty Cuddles

April 11, 2018 by Susie Morgan

Was looking back at some photos of the first few days after baby Jericho came home and met his big brother Jack . . . We are all made for secure attachment.

Filed Under: Attachment, Hope & Healing, Relationships, Uncategorized, Warm Fuzzies Tagged With: Family, Healing, Hope, Relationships, Secure Attachment, Transformation, Warm Fuzzies

Hiding The Catastrophe

April 4, 2018 by Susie Morgan

“Ever so quietly, I walked around with the loudest heartbreak and I wondered how passers-by could not hear the bombs dropping; could not hear thunder; did not notice the catastrophe.” – Choë Frayne There are some of us so good, so practiced, so skilled at holding all the pain inside – that no one can […]

Filed Under: Anxiety & Depression, Attachment, Complex Developmental Trauma, EMDR Therapy, PTSD, Relationships, Trauma, Trauma Therapy Tagged With: Anxiety, Complex PTSD, Depression, Developmental Trauma, EMDR, Family, PTSD, Relationships, Trauma, Trauma Therapy

Secure Attachment

March 4, 2018 by Susie Morgan

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 […]

Filed Under: Attachment, Complex Developmental Trauma, EMDR Therapy, Hope & Healing, Relationships Tagged With: Complex PTSD, Developmental Trauma, EMDR, Healing, Hope, Secure Attachment, Trauma Therapy

All Mixed Up About Love

March 3, 2018 by Susie Morgan

“Love doesn’t hurt you. A person that doesn’t know how to love hurts you.” – Tony Gaskins, Jr When we grow up without secure attachment – without the consistent experience of being seen and heard and held and defended – we can get all mixed up about what love looks like and feels like. We […]

Filed Under: Attachment, Complex Developmental Trauma, EMDR Therapy, Relationships, Trauma Therapy Tagged With: Developmental Trauma, EMDR, Relationships, Secure Attachment, Transformation