Healing the Trauma of Chronic Illness

Dealing long term with a chronic illness is exhausting.  In addition to the fatigue and debilitating pain that disease itself can bring, those suffering from chronic conditions often have emotional trauma to deal with.  Missing out on life, suffering from silent symptoms, seeking endlessly to find answers and solutions, being made to feel that the…

Learning the Language of Your Own Mind

Hurt feelings don’t vanish on their own.  They don’t heal themselves. Your mind holds on to past hurts, and protects you by blocking you from experiencing them again.  However, these same blocks can hold us back from moving forward in our lives. The key to unlocking these blocks is the subconscious mind. Through trace, regression…

Root Cause Healing

What if you could heal yourself, deeply and completely, through the power of your own mind? You can.  The subconscious mind is the key to your healing. We all carry memories within us.  And it is the job of the subconscious mind to  process and catalogue each and every one of them. A memory is…

Comparative Suffering – Guest Writer Jennifer Sofie Gulick May

I am excited to share that I have a guest writer for today’s post.  Jennifer Sofie Gulick May is a dear friend of mine and a professional mental health counselor.  She has a wonderfully thoughtful, grounded and balanced way of looking at things.  Here, she shares insight about seeking self-empathy during difficult times: It’s been…

Having a Mental Health Plan

You cannot meditate your way out of a panic attack.  It’s literally impossible and to even try exacerbates the fear. It’s hard to open your heart during a deep depressive episode where you cannot even open your eyes to get out of bed. While we live in the age of quick-fixes, of instant gratification, this…

Dealing with Chronic Pain

Chronic pain can take many forms, from arthritis to headaches, to back pain.  In our modern society, physical pain is considered to be more “real” and more “serious” than emotional pain, and maybe this is why our emotional hurt take a path through our physical body. Chronic pain, in whatever form, often results from chronic…