It’s been five years, this month, since Covid. I remember where I was when we started to hear about this virus that seemed to be spreading quickly. I was working in the humanitarian sector at the time, and my body tensed over lunch with our team in Indonesia as they told me
Not a word I use lightly, triggered, is a state we’d rather not have to experience quite so regularly. Like landmines in a field we’re trying to cross to get to work or get through the day, triggers are sneaky. Despite being the smallest part of an explosive device, when
Reconnecting with and rebuilding our identity helps us move through regret.
It’s a corrective experience to become who we needed then, and settle into ourselves more fully.
And, reconditioning our thinking around identity is a huge part of recovery from religious trauma.
I love working with people in counselling as they unearth and rebuild.
Once upon a time in a warehouse-turned-church-auditorium not that far away, I was a teenage girl who believed in magic. The magic of a God who loved me, who was always there to give me victory over emotions or head colds and reveal his perfect will for my life. The
This has been a huge year for the world and for many of us personally. As life on our planet becomes increasingly complex, I’m more convinced than ever that our most important skills are self-soothing and grounding. There is a lot of distress and limited capacity to ease it. I’ve continued
Perhaps it’s the oxytocin making me gushy after so many hours Havening with clients recently, but I balled like a baby at the Wicked movie this week! Have you been? It was so lovely to see it with my daughter, we had the theatre to ourselves as we gasped and sobbed. This
We’re almost there aren’t we? That time of the year that feels ridiculous, that’s counted in days until we get to stop for a while and recover from the year that was. I’m noticing my own uptick in things to do and places to be and like Coco Chanel I’m taking off at least
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,
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
Map Your Freedom is a series of narrative exercises and thought prompts that support the beginnings of being free of the impact of harm experienced in faith spaces.
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