I have had many clients who find the holiday season extra heavy since many times this time of the year is portrayed as a time of family, joy, and celebrations. But for many who are grieving, the holidays can feel less like a season of comfort and more like a season of loss and the reminder of the things that you're missing in your life. I see many clients who are navigating loss, loneliness, or heartbreak, and they feel out of step with the messaging we're all receiving from

Parenting has a way of bringing out the deepest parts of us — the joy, the love, but also the wounds we thought we’d left behind. Many of us don’t realize it at first, but our own childhood experiences quietly shape how we show up for our kids. Sometimes that shaping feels beautiful, like wanting to give our children what we didn’t have. Other times, it feels heavy, like old hurts creeping into the way we respond in the moment. How Unresolved Trauma Sneaks Into Parenting Trau

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What Is Your Inner Child? Your inner child represents the part of you that holds your earliest experiences, emotions, and core beliefs about yourself and the world. This psychological concept, developed through decades of therapeutic practice, refers to the childlike aspects of your psyche that continue to influence your adult thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Your inner child carries both the wonder and creativity of childhood, as well as any unresolved pain, unmet needs, o

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