“It’s like that last step is where the magic starts. And I’d never heard of it before. I have a master’s degree in social work. How did I miss it?!” my new client asked. I encouraged her, “I doubt...
“Sometimes I feel like getting into trauma healing opened Pandora’s box and there’s no end to what’s going to pour out of it!” I nodded with understanding. And great compassion. It takes so much...
“I guess I wasn’t stuck in the healing loop I had been in some kind of loop, but I’d never even heard any of these steps or done any of the healing you laid out in that workshop!” After last...
“I’ve been reading your blog for years! I guess I’m one of those who read to get more informed but didn’t DO (what you wrote about) to get myself out of this cycle,” my client wrote. “I don’t know...
“Here I am still broken, and you want me to share the little bit of healing I’ve experienced?” a client asked me from a place of what she thought was depletion. Later, she thanked me for...
“Someone should write your story,” a renowned and very creative songwriter told me a few years ago. I remember looking at him and saying, “There’s not much to my story Just a scared little girl who’s...
“Will I ever get totally free of trauma? Seems like I get one thing handled and something else pops up … Like I’m playing whack-a-mole with trauma,” my client asked with urgency. I could see he...
“Is it true that it takes 2 to 5 years to heal from all this trauma? I didn’t sign up to be in therapy that long!” my client moaned. Rightfully so! I assured him, “Although doing it one-hour at a time...
“It’s like everything is changing! That’s not a complaint. But it’s like we’re having to learn to do everything in a different way. Are we on the right track?” My clients were sincere in their...
