If any of these statements resonate, I would love to walk with you towards healing.

• You feel disconnected from everything, everyone, and yourself.

  example: feeling numb, distant, and difficulty truly, fully, authentically engaging in life

  reflection: our bodies and our brains have different ideas about how to keep us safe, sometimes one or the other will disconnect us in an attempt to prevent a deeply painful experience. We can reconnect, feel truly connected, and experience our most authentic life again.

• You don’t feel like yourself or have a negative belief

  example: “I just don’t feel like I used to” or “feel like I’m ‘broken’ or ‘did something wrong’. “

  reflection: when we work with trauma, we develop a skillset attuned to safety, empowerment, appropriate responsibility, connections, and autonomy. Our brain’s attempt to see how things could have been done differently is an attempt to, again, keep you safe in the future. We can help our bodies find adaptive processing, narratives, and self-guided assurance to know comfort and feel confidence.

• You “know” something isn’t true, but you often “feel” like it is in certain situations, or around certain people.

  example: “I know I don’t have to worry about this anymore, but every time I try to just relax it feels like I’m doing something wrong or am going to get in trouble, I know I’m an adult so why does it feel like this?”

  reflection: our bodies don’t know something to be truly safe, until we compassionately and resourcefully show them it is with what we do.

• You feel on edge, on guard, or anticipate something bad is going to happen.

  example: feeling untrusting, distance, overly cautious, overwhelmed, ashamed, inadequate, or lost in situations or around people you previously trusted or felt comfortable in.

  reflection: when we experience betrayal, confusion, sadness, and fear, we feel them deeply. We develop new skillsets out of experiences that maybe at one time, were helpful, but are now in the way. If we can empathetically, curiously, and compassionately examine not only how our way of feeling in the world is getting in our way, but also how this feeling may have been helpful at one time, we can find trust and empowerment in ourselves, and develop a path toward change.