Blog Posts
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Who Am I Created to Be?
Trauma, and specifically childhood trauma, can cause you to lose sight of who you are created to be… to lose sight of your true authentic self. Trauma blurs your perception of yourself. It makes you question your own judgement of situations, people & even behaviors because when you did trust your judgement, that proved to…
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A Relaxation Tool to Bring Calm
A great tool to help give you relaxation and calm is meditation. According to Harvard Medical School, “a research review published in JAMA Internal Medicine in January 2014 found meditation helpful for relieving anxiety, pain, and depression. For depression, meditation was about as effective as an antidepressant.” Below is a meditation that I encourage you…
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How to Achieve Inner Peace
Finding inner peace can be very difficult to achieve in today’s world. We are so busy with work, technology, social media, family, or simply the daily demands of life that we lose our peace or we may not have ever had it to begin with. Compound that with unresolved grief and hurt, and that’s a…
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Reasons Why Being Kind to Others Really Matters
In a time when our world is full of crazy and chaos, being kind to someone can help provide a little calm. Being kind to others will make them feel good, help to improve your mood, and also help those around you that witness it! This little fact has also been proven! According to Psychology…
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Strategies to Practice Through Your Healing Process
Healing from emotional scars can be overwhelming and even exhausting. It takes a lot of hard work to look within and allow healing to take place. Just like a physical wound is painful during the healing phase, so are emotional wounds. Self care can assist with soothing that pain. Self care is crucial to overall…
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5 Tools to Heal from Trauma
Trauma hits us like a freight train in the night. It leaves us in darkness and we are left to deal with the emptiness, loneliness and pain. However, our power lies in our reaction to it. We can choose to give up and remain stuck in the darkness or we can choose to grieve and…
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Strategies to Answer, “Who am I really?”
We can all struggle with the question, “who am I really?” To answer this question, and to help with healing, we must start to be truly authentic with ourselves and with others. This involves taking off the masks we may wear daily. We can often wear masks to hide our feelings and our true selves…
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When Trauma Causes us to Abandon Ourselves
When trauma causes us to abandon ourselves, it can cause various symptoms such as depression, anxiety, relationship issues, worthlessness, and so much more. Self-abandonment usually begins in childhood. It is a learned pattern and a trauma response. When the people who are supposed to love you mistreat you, abuse you (emotionally, mentally, physically, or sexually),…
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Journey to Self Love
What is self-love? Self-love is caring for and about yourself, which can be very healing. However, it is tough to love yourself when you have been through traumatic or difficult experiences. But, even the Bible teaches us that we are valuable and need to love ourselves. In Matthew 10:31, He tells us that we are…
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Mindfulness Techniques to Reduce Stress & Anxiety
Mindfulness is a great coping skill that can help reduce stress levels and help you heal. It is a complete body, mind, and spirit practice. Through meditation and contemplation, you begin to remove negativity from your life. You also begin to see what is triggering you and how your body reacts to that triggering. However,…