What if “Not Good Enough” is Right?
We all carry negative beliefs and accompanying strategies we picked up along the way—working to please, keeping the peace, staying calm and rational, or taking care of everyone around us. Most of the time, we refer to the negative beliefs behind these “coping...
Beyond the Roles
The turning points in my life have most often shown up unexpectedly. A door closes. A new path appears. Something shifts—sometimes before I have words for what’s happening. Those moments have asked me to change before I fully understood it. EFT Opened a Door for Me...
More Than Trauma: How Social Conditioning Shapes Who We Become
“I didn’t yet understand that I was moving through a world that saw and treated me differently—and that those differences, though mostly invisible, had been shaping us all along.” I’ve spent a lot of time learning how childhood trauma and neglect shape the nervous...
Mistrust is a gift, both to oneself and to others.
Mistrust is a gift, both to oneself and to others. In the previous post, I shared a story of a motorist whose car broke down in a snowstorm in rural Montana. After a long walk along a lonely road, he finally arrived at a ranch. Walking up to the door, he pounded and...