Category Archives: Healing

The Traumatized Baby

This is a repost of something first posted in July 2010.  So amazing.  Here I am working with parts before I had any idea about the Internal Family Systems work. It’s also how I’ve been feeling this week: “I feel … Continue reading

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Talk with Youngest Part

At least I think/feel it’s the youngest. She can’t talk so I have to sense her feelings. I was reading James Hollis’s book What Matters Most, and got to the part where he talks about doing what your soul wants … Continue reading

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Self-pity, Anger, Compassion, Gratitude

This morning as I walked Mocha in the bitter cold, my knee aching, she turned back very quickly, and pulled, which I find so difficult.  I started feeling sorry for myself, then I got angry at myself for self-pity, then … Continue reading

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Rescuing the Baby on the Garbage Can

from my journal for December 9 Erica said my system is so open that the moment I unbend, and see the part as separate from me, I offer a hug and the exile runs into my arms.  All my life … Continue reading

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Blended with Non-verbal Parts

Friday, December 8,  I asked Erica for an extra appointment because I was having such a hard time. I’m being unable to say anything when I’m with my friends, and I imagine they are judging me for it. I tell … Continue reading

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Complexity: Dealing with a Number of Parts

I’ve been going over my journal since before Thanksgiving, trying to make sense of the journey I’ve been on. As I read over it, I see a number of possible parts that I might be blended with. This is complicated … Continue reading

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Ways to Heal Trauma

I’ve been watching a show on YouTube.  Dr. Rangan Chatterjee interviewing Bessel Van Der Kolk on different methods for healing trauma. I found it very exciting and personally helpful. I’m going to share some of my notes and my experiences, … Continue reading

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Trying to Connect with Traumatized Baby

Read Erica what I had written.  She thought it was powerful.  We talked about the flavor of the writing. Notes from the session with my therapist on November 21: What I wrote was written from a “neutral/wisdom stance,” not from a … Continue reading

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Gretchen Schmelzer: The Wisdom of Respite

From Gretchen Schmelzer’s blog for August 23, 2023: The Wisdom of Respite. Gretchen is a trauma survivor and a therapist for people suffering from trauma. Respite is noted to be a break from something difficult. And it’s true that we feel … Continue reading

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1995: Sullen Angry 8-yr-old

From my journal for November 28, 1995 Well, let’s see if she is here, that sullen angry hurt child.  I have a hit of her age as being 8 or 9, and of Mother as a hurt angry sullen child … Continue reading

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