Posts tagged trauma
Healing through Trauma: Understanding EDMR Therapy

Meet my good friend and massage therapist, Abbie from Rowan Wellness.  Abbie is more than a massage therapist.  She has such an intuitive way to work on her clients and this comes from her story of chronic pain and even grief after losing her sweet son, Rowan, at just 29 weeks.

This episode will warm your heart as you hear her story and she began moving through grief to help her clients again and she will share how important massage therapy is for your emotional and physical health.

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Pull the Weeds

I hold to the assumption that every breathing person has endured a degree of betrayal and harm that not only damages our soul-heart, but also leaves us in the pit of shame.

If you have survived school recess or sport locker rooms or sorority induction, then you know the sting of being made to feel unworthy because of who you are. Sadly, too many of you have experienced betrayal from a father, mother, or spouse: being made to feel your body was wrong; routinely punished for not being “good enough”; discovering the one you made a lifelong vow to has given their body to another; feeling the weight of abuse as another body rapes you, punches you, locks you away, or threatens you.

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You aren't crazy!

You aren’t crazy! Many of us are feeling a little crazy right now. Listen as a great friend and counselor explains why you might be feeling “off” emotionally and physically! Is it triggering past loss? betrayal? grief? trauma?

“ Almost all trauma occurs under a certain set of circumstances. Victims are unable to escape. The circumstances or perpetrator invoke(s) fear in the victim. There is a power struggle that the victim loses – against another person, system, or nature. At some level, a betrayal occurs (I’ll have to explain that one in another blog!).

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