Thriving Beyond Trauma

Thriving Beyond Trauma

“Thriving Beyond Trauma: A Journey to Clarity, Emotional Release, and True Freedom After Trauma” Life after trauma is a chapter marked by wisdom, resilience, and a deep understanding of the journey we’ve traversed. For many of us, this journey has...
The Benefits of Struggling

The Benefits of Struggling

  I remember hearing this story many years ago, though I cannot remember who told it or wrote it, so my apologies for the lack of attribution. It remains a very powerful and telling story for me and serves as a great reminder, that when things seem really tough,...

Self-Care Is Selfish!

  If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say that looking after yourself and engaging in self-care is “selfish” I’d have been able to retire with an abundance of financial security years ago. I had spent too many years throughout the first 20 years of...

Emerging Hope Through Devastation

  I recently got to head back home to the country to the place where I grew up. It really is so true what they say, that you can take the girl out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the girl ! As much as I love living where I’m living now and...
Guiding Lights and Inner Strength: Navigating Life’s Storms

The Lighthouse

Today I was sitting enjoying a coffee and looking up the coast towards our gorgeous lighthouse and I got to thinking of the symbolism that comes with that lighthouse…. The lighthouse stands confidently near the edge of the cliff, it is consistent and reliable and...
Grief and Trauma : Will The Grieving Ever End ?

Grief and Trauma : Will The Grieving Ever End ?

    As you know, when you experience trauma you are often faced with one loss after another. First there may be the loss of a person, or a thing or the loss of a sense of safety and security in your world, and you feel excessive pain and you start to grieve...
Stifling Your Dream or Creating Your Dream ?

Stifling Your Dream or Creating Your Dream ?

  Do You have a Dream ? One you keep hidden away perhaps, almost like a deep dark secret because you either don’t put yourself 1st enough to make the time to work on making your dreams come true OR you simply don’t believe in yourself enough to back...