Category Archives: Trauma

My Wounded Part Needs to be Held, not Healed

Posted on November 4, 2021 by jenny

This is from the Richard Rohr daily meditation for May 3, 2021. The writer is a Vietnam Vet. I suffer from a disturbed sleep pattern that has been a part of my life since a nighttime attack in Vietnam in … Continue reading →

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Relational Trauma

Posted on October 28, 2021 by jenny

From Matt Licata’s blog: The tragedy of relational trauma presents itself as a cellular fragmenting, more primordial than a mere cognitive dissonance, neurally-encoded and rooted in the soul. In addition to the chronic empathic failure and narcissistic injury which goes … Continue reading →

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Feeling Compassion for Myself

Posted on September 11, 2021 by jenny

One of my constant struggles is to find compassion for myself. Most of the time I’m angry at myself and hating myself for being such a failure. I’ve treated myself worse than any other human being. From my journal for … Continue reading →

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The Body Knows, the Heart Knows

Posted on September 10, 2021 by jenny

I haven’t posted for a long time because I’ve been doing so badly. When I read this the other day, it described so well exactly how I’ve been feeling. I even found myself able to cry, which rarely happens in … Continue reading →

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Trapped in Stone

Posted on August 3, 2021 by jenny

Tuesday, July 13 Work with Erica was experiential, she asked me to not write during the session. Passages in italics are from my journal: An intense session with Erica. She managed to get me out of being trapped in rock. … Continue reading →

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Working with Scared One

Posted on August 2, 2021 by jenny

from journal for Monday, August 2 Yesterday was pretty miserable. I realize that in some ways the misery of the day matched the metaphor of being trapped in stone. Trapped in a narrow point of view. Unable to imagine anything bigger. I started … Continue reading →

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Order — Disorder — Reorder

Posted on July 25, 2021 by jenny

This is from Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation for today, July 25 Living in a transitional age such as ours is scary: things are falling apart, the future is unknowable, so much doesn’t cohere or make sense. We can’t seem to … Continue reading →

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Blow by Blow Description of Work with “Parts”

Posted on July 23, 2021 by jenny

This is an attempt to illustrate what my work with parts is like. I wrote in my journal exactly what was going on, when it was happening. Sunday, July 18 I think if I can’t do anything else, maybe I … Continue reading →

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Rescuing Young Parts

Posted on July 18, 2021 by jenny

My therapist and I are working with Richard Schwartz’s ideas, developed over the last 20 years as Internal Family Systems. Instead of being able to deal with parts who can talk individually, I get flooded by parts who are desperate … Continue reading →

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My Indigenous Celtic Soul

Posted on July 13, 2021 by jenny

Something I’ve been discovering lately, after reading The Gatherings, is that I in fact have an indigenous soul, and an indigenous spirituality. I realized that the traditional folk dances are indigenous, they come from people who had lived for generations … Continue reading →

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