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SOMA Sessions

SOMA means living body. Working somatically means working with our living bodies for grounding ourselves and living with greater ease. Working somatically also, importantly, allows us to lean towards goodness. And when we lean towards goodness, we have greater ability to cope when things get hard.  Over summer, when we often have a bit more time,

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Healing for Complex Trauma

Complicated, complex or, like the pages of a book that stick together after being dropped in the bath, repeated exposure to anything too fast, too much or too soon, can result in trauma. And trauma, in essence, is finding it unbearable to be with our big emotions, our bodies don’t

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Trauma Healing for Big T Traumas

Perhaps a little heavy for a Thursday morning, but if you’ve experienced a Big T trauma, it’s likely not far from your thoughts most mornings. And certainly the traumas of the world, as I wrote about last week, are ever present for anyone paying attention. A Big T trauma is

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Trauma Healing for Religious Trauma

What even is Religious Trauma? ▫️Is it different to other trauma?▫️Why do you talk about it so much?▫️Can I heal from this type of trauma?▫️Do I have religious trauma? These are good questions I get regularly. Religious trauma, spiritual trauma, religious abuse, spiritual rupture are all terms that people may

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The Wait of the World

Not a typo although weight would have done nicely. What is healing in the context of global trauma, how do we get to be ok when there is so much suffering? Working in the humanitarian space for so long, this question was always front of mind. I got to go

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Therapy is Woefully Inadequate P2

In Part 1, on my last blog, I said, because we are collectivist people living in individualist societies, therapy is woefully inadequate and, it’s what we have right now. Another way in which therapy is woefully inadequate, is in the rigid way we tend to ‘do’ therapy. I’ve been following the work

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Therapy is Woefully Inadequate.

I’m still thinking through what it means for me having lost so much through leaving church, and I find the concept of domains helpful. We have the domains of family, work, contribution and service, our inner worlds and then belonging to groups like faith communities, sports clubs and other interests, like hobbies.

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We need more people.

It’s funny isn’t it that when we start to think about, or focus on a particular thing, it seems to pop up everywhere. There’s science to this phenomenon that I’ll leave for another day, but it’s happened to me this last few weeks. I’ve been spending a of time on Substack recently.

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The God of My Imagination

I wrote on my Substack this week about the God of my imagination. I’d been reflecting on how I created God in my imagination. Which is, of course, what we all do as we learn about faith, as it becomes our framework, identity, worldview, a relationship with the divine. It’s

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