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Rant, Rave, Rest: A Guide on What to Do with Your Gorgeous Feral Feelings

Kid Tested, Nervous System Approved

Social Capital: The SNOVID Underdog

How We Survive and Thrive: Thoughts from a Trauma Therapist Humans aren’t necessarily the most capable species. In fact, we are quite vulnerable individually. We

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Safe Escape

Ya’ll. I am going to level with you. Life is really hard right now. Routinely, I find myself saying there are no easy answers. Day

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Anger as a Flag for Boundaries

Whether it’s frustration, anger, or what you’d call rage, it’s an emotion that’s tied to our fight response. The wisdom of our fight response shows

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Orienting Toward The Good

What you appreciate, appreciates. When we experience chronic stress or trauma one of the things that happens in our body is that we orient toward

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Be Fabulous & Vote

Everyone is saying to vote right now and I think it’s hard to feel motivated to go vote when our political system is so complex

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Reality Check Regarding Power

While hanging out in turtle mode, I realized that perpetration has actually been in power for a long time. At the time, I felt

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Emerge

I’ve been quiet lately. I’ve needed to be. The last several weeks have been really hard. And alongside my fellow survivors and allies I’ve felt

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How to be More of Yourself

In my last blog post, I shared a little back story on how I came to view confidence through this lens of being and experiencing

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Unequivocally Herself

I have a few thoughts on confidence…. When I was about 23, my boss came out of a meeting and, with a laugh, said, “Sofia*

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Power Over Versus Power With

As a trauma therapist so much of my work is centered around power. Expanding the idea of power and cultivating personal power. Power Over: The

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Boundaries as Structures for Freedom

Helping clients tune into, create, strengthen and maintain boundaries is a big part of my work. However, we may actually need to reframe the word