Susie Morgan, LMFT

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Fierce Determination

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“Broken girls blossom into warriors.” -Unknown Lionhearts, that which broke us once can fuel fierce determination to rise and fight for freedom – a freedom to live fully and beautifully.  #lionheart #warrior #cptsd #developmentaltrauma #emdrtherapy #emdrreadinesscourse Thank you to Phoenix Ascended for the original post! www.EMDRReadinessCourse.com  The Course covers many of the elements that can make a world of difference in treating […]

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Imperfect Hearts

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“The really beautiful hearts have dents in them.” -S.C. Lourie #truebeauty #trauma #ptsd #complexptsd #developmentaltrauma #emdrtherapy #emdrreadinesscourse Thank you to Butterflies and Pebbles for the beautiful words!! www.EMDRReadinessCourse.com

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Transformation of Healing from Hurt

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“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them at least don’t hurt them.” -Dalai Lama The most profound thing that I appreciate about the newer advancements in EMDR therapy for developmental/complex trauma – is that it can not only resolve the pain of what has been done […]

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Facing The Pain

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A friendly little reminder from Jericho – just because you try to hide it doesn’t mean it isn’t there and won’t come jumping out in just a minute!   It can be SO tempting to try to shove things under the rug (or hide them behind the curtain as the case may be).   That’s […]

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Resilience

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“May the flowers remind us why the rain was so necessary.” -Xan Oku I think this is true both of the tears shed in the acute pain of trauma – but it is also true of the tears that flow as we heal.   When the brain locks down on difficult experience – it leaves […]

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Your Life Is Your Story

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“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 – […]

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Taking the First Step Toward Healing

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“Through Susie’s gentle and thoughful videos I received empathic skills and savvy tools to address the ways trauma had negatively impacted me.” -Participant of the EMDR Readiness course I received this review today from a woman who used The EMDR Readiness Course in conjunction with her work with a therapist (which I think is an […]

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Attachment Cry

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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!! […]

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Hiding The Catastrophe

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“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 […]

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Be Her

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“Be the woman you needed as a girl.”  – Unknown Be the adult we needed as a child.  Yes, of course to the children in our lives. But, also to the little ones, our younger selves, that are still inside of us – locked in the perception that it is still the past, not yet […]

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