True Self Journey Blog

Some Thoughts on the Therapy Process

This is a post from a few years ago that I'm sharing again. Some good reminders for those on a healing journey - including me! One of the steps I...
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Navigating Relationships with Parents During Recovery

You’re in therapy, and you’re starting to get into reality about your caregivers and your home environment. With the help of your therapist, you start to connect some dots, and...
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Your Parents Were Responsible for Their Own Emotions

  You walk in the door after school and can tell by the sounds your mom is making in the kitchen whether you need to go quietly to your room...
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Trauma Healing is A Whole-Body Experience

Telling the story of your trauma and being able to name your emotions is an important and courageous part of the healing process. Acknowledging the thinking distortions and limiting beliefs...
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11 Tools For Your Trauma Recovery Toolbox

As you engage in trauma recovery through therapy, 12-Step fellowships, and other means, it’s helpful to have a recovery toolbox—an accessible catalog of resources  to support your recovery—that is readily...
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Letter to Myself (Or Anyone) Just Starting Therapy - Part 2

Recently I thought about what I'd want to say to myself when I was just starting therapy. If I knew then, what I know now about the journey of healing...
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Letter to Myself (or Anyone) Just Starting Therapy - Part 1

You’ve spent your life until now not talking about anything. Hiding your thoughts, feelings, and memories from everyone—including yourself. And you had to do things that way to survive.  You’ve...
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