Reparenting Old Childhood Rules During the Holidays
The holidays can stir old childhood rules about gratitude, worth, and being easy to love. This post explores how those early lessons can resurface through parenting and how reparenting offers a steadier way to respond when old fears are activated.
Why Holidays Trigger Old Wounds: Understanding Complex Trauma in a Season of Family
The holidays can stir up old patterns, memories, and emotional reactions you thought you had moved past. This post explores why familiar seasons bring old wounds to the surface and how to care for yourself through it.
When Joy and Grief Intertwine
Joy and grief often surface together during the holidays, activating a familiar polarization inside. This reflection explores how those parts interact, collide, and try to protect what matters most.
When Food Feels Complicated: Reflections for Thanksgiving and Food Holidays
The holidays can stir up complicated feelings around food, body, and control. This post offers a gentler way to notice the parts of you that work so hard to keep you safe—and to invite a little more ease this season.
You Don’t Need to Keep Up: Reflections for Black Friday Weekend
As the world speeds up this season, it’s easy to feel the pull to do more, buy more, or be more. What if you didn’t keep up? What if enough was already here, waiting for you to slow down and notice it?
When the Past Still Lives in You: IFS and Complex Trauma
IFS offers a compassionate way to understand the lingering effects of complex trauma — not by revisiting every memory, but by getting to know the parts of you that still carry its weight.