Susie Morgan, LMFT

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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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The Stories We Carry

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“Everyone has a story that will break your heart. And, if you’re really paying attention, most people have a story that will bring you to your knees.” -Brené Brown Brené Brown posted this quote today in response to Kate Spade’s passing by her own hand.  The stories we carry with us are so often the […]

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Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself

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“Don’t be hard on yourself anymore, darling. You’ve been through so many hard moments already. You don’t wanna keep adding to the list.” -S.C. Lourie It can be so easy to keep repeating to ourselves the mean things that reflect what we learned from maltreatment by others – especially if it came from those closest […]

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Fight For Yourself

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“It’s okay if you won’t fight for me. I will.” -Chloë Frayne Sometimes – too often really – those of us with complex/developmental trauma find ourselves feeling more alone the more we heal and grow. Despite the presence even of a partner or friends or family – the patterns in these relationships remain so much […]

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We All Have A Threshold

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“It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.” -Cheryl Strayed So often the question comes up in my office – “Why am I falling apart now?! I was holding it together for so long and through so much!!”  My answer – my […]

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The Distortion of Reality

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One of my favorite images . . . So accurately captures how progress really goes! If we have this in mind, I think it makes it easier to keep going! #perseverance #keepgoing #upsanddowns #healing #traumarecovery #ptsd #cptsd #emdr #emdrreadinesscourse  I would love to know who to credit and thank for this image!! www.EMDRReadinessCourse.com If you haven’t yet, I invite you to join me […]

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Memorial Day

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“And the truth is that all veterans pay with their lives. Some pay all at once, while others pay over a lifetime.” -JM Storm This is so true. This day is to honor those who paid with their lives all at once. I believe we must also remember the ongoing payment of their comrades, partners, […]

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