Getting Unstuck - How Our Past Impacts Our Present & How to Find Ourselves Again

You’ve heard the phrases on a hard day “be grateful for this, someday you will see the bigger picture, let’s look at the silver lining”. While well intentioned these phrases actually make us feel small and isolated more than they help.

I know, I know, you don’t need another person telling you what to do to help you on a day like today. But is it possible that those who are offering suggestions might actually be in the right direction? Not as a cureall but to support us in feeling just a little more like ourselves today? Small steps today might not seem like they help with the big goal, but the thing we know about our minds and bodies is that these small steps actually help us making the movement towards the big goal.

Brainspotting is a therapy tool that helps you gain access to the deeper parts of your brain. Supports you in helping your brain keep the past in the past.

If you are struggling with your past following you around - art therapy might just be the key to your trauma therapy.

If you find yourself struggling with constantly caring for others over yourself, you need to examine the part of you that is wounded, the part that feels like your connection to others can only be maintained through our ability to people-please and caretake.

To be a part of conversations, race, racism and our society, and to have opinions, we have to be open to new information and continue to challenge ourselves to gather information to be educated on institutional racism and its impacts on our community.