Susie Morgan, LMFT

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Broken

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“She was brave and strong and broken all at once.” -Anna Funder Sometimes I work with people who seem so very strong and capable to world – and they are that.  But something else is true too. They are so strong and capable because they simply had to be. They didn’t have anyone else to […]

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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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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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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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A Silver Spoon

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“When you are not fed love on a silver spoon you learn to lick it off knives.” -Lauren Eden It is heartbreaking how often I meet with clients whose current relationships are marked by fear, loneliness, insecurity – and then as we trace their history back to the beginning we see one iteration after another […]

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Making an Impression

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“Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.” -Haim Ginott So often we think little ones are just too young to remember this or that. Or, for ourselves, that things that happened when we were so young couldn’t have affected us!!  The reality couldn’t be further from the truth. The nervous […]

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The Powerful Position of a Mother

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Being a mother is arguably one of the most powerful positions there is. A mother holds the life of her little one in her hands. Her influence on the development of that little human is immeasurable.  Lionhearts, for some of us Mother’s Day is full of so much love and warmth. It is a celebration […]

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Loneliness

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“If you are far away from yourself, how could you ever be close to another?” -Yung Pueblo I’ve been saddened recently while reading proclamations by some of the seeming gloriousness of abandoning reliance on others – holding to the conviction this is the higher path as others have proven we have only our own selves […]

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A Mother’s World

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I was reading on Quora yesterday and came across this question posed by someone: “What does having a mom feel like?” Someone’s answer: “It feels like safety and comfort, security and love. My mom would have done anything for us kids.” This is exactly what we as little ones needed – and yet it is […]

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