J* is in a relationship and a father of two small children. He works and feels pressured at work. He feels that he is not progressing in his career as well as he would like. He often feels low too and cannot quite pinpoint why. He feels he “should have [...]
Recently more and more people I encounter have either been diagnosed with ADHD or find themselves wondering what their symptoms mean: Are they related to being neurodivergent or are they potentially related to childhood trauma (PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or C-PTSD). So I thought it was important to [...]
Are you haunted by memories of childhood trauma? Do you find yourself grappling with anxiety, depression, or relationship difficulties, perhaps stemming from a mother wound, father wound, or other painful experiences in your past? If so, you're not alone. But there is hope for healing, and one powerful tool in [...]
Jake* has a business and he has made it into a success. He has a family with kids and a partner. His life is on the outside very good and people in his environment would not know how the external success and the internal feeling of always being on the [...]
If you have experienced childhood trauma or childhood emotional neglect (CEN), have you noticed behaviour patterns that may be unhelpful for you? Perhaps you often end up agreeing to things when it does not suit you. Maybe you struggle to get your voice heard when you have something important to [...]
Relationships with men have always been difficult for Jane*. She has often ended up having relationships with emotionally unavailable men. They may initially show interest yet as she starts to attach and show interest in them, they disappear or withdraw from contact by coming up with various excuses. She has [...]
For this month’s post, I wanted to bring together the five most read posts on my website in the past year in case someone hasn’t seen them yet. I started blogging about three years ago. My aim was to be able to give through my writing hope for healing and [...]
The holiday season can bring out the best and worst in us and in our family members as potentially a lot of time is spent together and there often are expectations for the celebrations. We may have a wish to have a wonderful festive season like in the Hollywood films [...]
The greatest pain of all – the mother wound, the emotional absence of your mother in your early years. The first part of this 2-part series looked at what the mother wound means and how it can impact your well-being as an adult. The mother wound can be defined as [...]
How do you treat your body? Studies have suggested that a very large percentage of women and also men struggle with being friends with their body. Perhaps it is easy to say that the body is to blame for not being... thin enough, young enough, tall or short enough or has [...]
