Category: Self Awareness
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Healing Shame
If you’re here, reading this blog, I’m going to assume you’ve had thoughts like: “There’s something wrong with me;” “There’s no way someone would ever love me;” “I’m too much;” or “I’m not enough.” My heart goes out to you across space and time. These narratives, and the emotional vortexes that can come with them,…
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What is Formative Psychology? A Brief Introduction
As one starting point for this blog, I feel called to share more about how I work and why I am drawn to Formative Psychology so future clients can get a sense for what a therapeutic relationship with me could be like. Also, I have experienced powerful transformation using Formative Psychology both personally and professionally,…
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The Triad of Identity
What makes us us? This question drew me to psychology and eventually somatic psychotherapy, which takes a slightly different view of what makes us us. Understanding what makes us us can empower clients who wish to adapt how they know themselves. Likewise, sometimes people’s greatest suffering arises from disconnects in how they feel (somatic sensations…
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The Move from Self Improving to Self Knowing
How many times have you looked in the mirror or at pictures and wanted to be better or different? How strongly do you long to be something or someone else? These are powerful yearnings that have personal, interpersonal, and collective significance via the suffering they can cause. Although that suffering may have a purpose –…