Personal Growth Insights - Blog
Cultivating Connected Relationships Through Somatic Healing and Parts Work (IFS)
How do you become resilient, so you are able to communicate vulnerably and respond appropriately in relationships, at any time? How do you work with the parts that hijack your system and repeatedly play out patterns that don't work or align with who you want to be? Read more to find out.
A Path to Healing and Building Resilience with Somatic Experiencing
One aspect of Somatic Experience trauma healing is building resilience. Resilience in this context means being able to get activated (stress, trigger, upset, overwhelm, collapse) as well as the capacity to deactivate, appropriately. Learn more in this blog.
Trauma Healing: A Unique Approach to Addressing Chronic Pain
If you struggle with chronic pain and don’t have an obvious reason for it (like a torn tendon); realize your body is providing the signal of pain because there is healing that needs to happen, and it requires a different kind and level of attention than you have been giving it.
Navigating Boundaries: Healing Through Internal Family Systems
Do you find yourself often giving in on your boundaries when you'd rather stand firm? Perhaps you compromise to avoid disappointing someone, even when it goes against your true desires. It's a common struggle, and there's a profound reason behind it.
How Somatic Experiencing (SE) Resolves Chronic Tension and Stress
If you’ve been grappling with chronic tension and pain, and despite trying various approaches, you find no lasting relief, the root issue may not be purely physical. It might be rooted in accumulated stress and unresolved events from your past.
Are You Stuck in a Dead-End Relationship?
Why do you continue to give up so much to stay in a relationship that you know isn’t working? Even if you’re afraid to face the loss and change, sometimes the empowering path forward is to break up.
Your Sexual Desires: From Silence to Authenticity
Do you ever find yourself silently complying with your partner's sexual preferences because your desires feel too embarrassing to share?
From Giver to Receiver: Embracing Your Emotional Needs
If your emotional needs aren’t being met in your primary relationship, it could be because they weren’t a priority during your upbringing, so you imprinted that it’s normal to be a giver, not a receiver.
Learning How to Receive: Transforming Past Pain Into Present Empowerment
Do you find it difficult to let people who care about you do things for you without feeling indebted or obligated to reciprocate?
- shame
- chronic pain
- sexuality
- breakups
- attunement
- self-compassion
- reparenting work
- nervous system regulation
- empowerment
- relationships
- trauma healing
- receiving
- internal family systems
- disappointment
- boundaries
- inner child healing
- embodiment
- body signals
- making requests
- communication skills
- stress relief
- poetry
- protector parts
- desire
- personal growth
- emotional well-being
- somatic experiencing
- consent
- emotional healing
- root cause of pain
- self-discovery