You're ready to have that difficult conversation with the one who hurt you. You're feeling empowered, confident, and ready to let it all out. But make sure you take 3 important steps to get the most out of the conversation for true personal healing.
The first step to healing in therapy is to first believe you deserve it. You deserve to have healthy, intimate, and safe relationships - romantic and non-romantic.
As survivors of abuse, it can be hard to believe the phrase Faith over Fear. Probably even harder to practice, Connection over Rejection Trauma in childhood teaches us how to reject ourselves and we do it more often than we think. For example, words are...
As a survivor of childhood trauma, you may not recognize this longing as “safety and protection,” but you do know that you long for someone to hold you in their arms. To tell you it will be okay and that you’re okay just as you...