Tag: church

• The Man Who Held Me Up.

  A reflection on the first person who ever saw me. (This post contains affiliate links. See my full disclosure on my Resources page.) “Where no one else looks, love finds a way.” — Unknown A Name I Hadn’t Heard in Thirty Years. I’ve been writing again. Publishing again. Putting the messy, honest, unfinished parts of my…

  Sara McGuire

  May 15, 2026

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  abuse, being seen, c-PTSD, childhood emotional neglect, church, connection, cptsd, depression, emotional healing, family, father figure, father wound, fiction, healing, inner child, life, love, memory, mental health, self help, self-worth, therapy, trauma, validation, writing

• Dismantling Myself and Continuing My Healing Journey.

  All healing starts with beginning to accept yourself and love yourself; even your flaws. – Bryant McGill I woke up with my neck and back stiff again and my head hurting. I am so inflamed that everything hurts. I think it was the way I slept and also smoking weed before bed makes my head…

  Sara McGuire

  March 19, 2022

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  anger, change, church, detox, detoxing, eft, fear, flow, God, integration, marijuana, mental health, reality, religion, self acceptance, self healing, self love, shadow work, shaman

• Hair, Shame, Judgement, and Power.

  I shaved my head for the second time today.  The first time I shaved it about a month ago, I felt angry, overcome with emotions from some past trauma with my childhood that I was revisiting. I shaved it in tears, not fully understanding the sensations of feelings that were flooding me. Today, I did it…

  Sara McGuire

  January 23, 2022

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  abuse, church, hair, judgement, mental abuse, self healing, shame, shaved head, spiritual abuse, trauma, United Pentecostal Church, UPC