Susie Morgan, LMFT

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A Thousand Words

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“Sometimes a hug is worth more than a thousand words.” – Unknown Sprout (Sophie’s 4 1/2 month old therapy dog understudy – for those of you who haven’t been following my recent FB/Instagram Stories) is a master at hugging.  In fact, her biggest challenge in puppy training class right now is to learn to keep […]

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Nothing is Permanent

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“Nothing is permanent in this world, not even your troubles.” – Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin is right!! The hard times don’t last forever. But, it can seem like they do.  When the brain hasn’t been able to process through the pain or fear of an experience, the past can continue to FEEL very much like […]

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Tales Of Triumph

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“Don’t give up. Some of the greatest stories of our time, were penned on parchments with edges tattered, ragged, and worn.” -Broms the Poet Once healed, we can see that our stories – which we once thought only as tragedies filled with pain and fear – are actually tales of triumph and redemption. We become […]

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Warrior

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“Warriors are not the ones who always win but the ones who always fight.” -Unknown The words “victim” and “survivor” are often used to designate those who have gone through trauma. While both are accurate, I believe one is most suitably called a WARRIOR who makes it through the wounding of body and soul and […]

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EMDR Professionals

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EMDR Professionals!!  In Complex/Developmental trauma cases, it can be particularly difficult to determine when a client is ready to begin memory reprocessing – so as to neither err on the side of doing too little preparation so processing goes sideways nor too much and unnecessarily delay the robust symptom relief reprocessing can bring. So, based […]

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Fathers Being Fathers

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I’m posting a bit late (the training, traveling, and puppy needs have been absorbing so much of my energy and attention this past week!!) – but I wanted to write in honor of the fathers who are being the fathers their children need them to be!!  The protectors, the comforters, the leaders and teachers – […]

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Broken Children In Adult Bodies

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“So many broken children living in grown bodies mimicking adult lives.” -Ijeoma Umebinyuo I am on a flight home from what has been the single most powerful training of my professional career. Our focus was healing attachment wounds – the traumas of omission and commission experienced when our caregivers were unwilling or unable to provide […]

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Deleting Feelings

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Laughing . . . Sometimes it would be SO nice if we could actually do this! Oddly, the harder we try to push feelings away, deny them, disassociate from them – the more they stay. Instead, the feelings just come out sidewise about something else – or build and fester until we explode – or […]

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Pain Is The Burden

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“Pain is the burden. Not you.” -CWPoet In light of the news being laden with the recent suicides, I thought it was important to share these words right now. I’m boarding a plane for Massachusetts today, on my way to a week long intensive training with a leading EMDR expert on methods for treating attachment […]

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Certificate Of Bravery

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Miss Sophie is recovering after a pretty rough day today.  I love these certificates that my Vet’s office gives out – I really think we should be giving them out to each other more often!! So – here is to you – and the courage and strength you’ve shown when facing something tough or scary […]

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