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“Tell the story of the mountain you climbed. Your words could become a page in someone else’s survival guide.” -Morgan Harper Nichols We need to know we’re not the only one. We need to know we’re not alone.
“The strongest people are not those who hide their tears, but instead those who accept their tears as part of living, and feel them to the fullest. It is not those who shy away from hurting, it is those who keep going, despite the pain, that are the toughest characters.” -Tommy Cotton I use […]
“Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often.” -Susan Statham We don’t get to choose how our stories begin. There is a time though when we realize that we get to author what comes next for us. To do so, we often must engage in the courageous work of editing the past – […]
“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!
As little ones we are designed to have a cry that PULLS our caregivers to us! It is called the “attachment cry” and was identified by researcher Jaak Panksepp as linked to the affective system of panic. The first time I heard this, I was fascinated, panic is actually the cry and reaching for someone!! […]
“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 […]
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo The miracle in EMDR therapy . . . that the past can finally be in the past.
Activating trauma memory networks – so that they can be desensitized and reprocessed with EMDR therapy requires being able to notice where disturbance is felt in the body. Learning it’s safe to be present with and feel our body is no small feat, Lionhearts, if we have learned, since early on, that it is a […]
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.” – Anne Lamott We, as little humans, are entirely dependent on our caregivers to stay alive and will instinctively adapt in order maintain attachment in whatever way is possible. Idealization occurs […]
“You are worn and cracked and dented. And that is okay, because I have never heard of a clean and shiny sword that won a war.” – Erin Van Vuren Don’t give up fighting, dear Lionhearts. We have what we need – we ARE what we need – to win the battle each of us […]
