Developmental Trauma Archives - Page 10 of 12

Focus On Your Future

April 16, 2018 by Susie Morgan

“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 […]

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Your Life Is Your Story

April 15, 2018 by Susie Morgan

“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

April 8, 2018 by Susie Morgan

“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

April 6, 2018 by Susie Morgan

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

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 […]

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Be Her

April 3, 2018 by Susie Morgan

“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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Put Back Together By Her Own Hands

April 2, 2018 by Susie Morgan

“She is a beautiful piece of broken pottery, put back together by her own hands. A critical world judges her cracks while missing the beauty of how she made herself whole again.” – JM Storm There can come a day in which we can see ourselves accurately, in which we can see the beauty in […]

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The Miracle in EMDR Therapy

March 30, 2018 by Susie Morgan

“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.

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Re-Inhabiting Our Bodies

March 29, 2018 by Susie Morgan

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 […]

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Tell Your Stories

March 28, 2018 by Susie Morgan

“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 […]

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