Tag: healing journey

• A Hundred Miles Tall and a Thousand Miles Deep

  A reflection on grief, the outliers who survive, and what it means to finally know your own name. This post contains affiliate links. See my full disclosure on my Resources page. “Hell isn’t underground. It’s the world you live in when you’re too afraid to be yourself.” — Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out…

  Sara McGuire

  June 30, 2026

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  atheist recovery, body memory, childhood emotional neglect, cptsd, cptsd recovery, deconstruction, grief, healing, healing journey, high control religion, inner child healing, leaving religion, life, love, outliers, religious abuse, religious trauma, secular healing, self-identity, shadow work, stardust, survivor, Virginia Giuffre, writing

• The Merry-Go-Round Nobody Asked to Ride

  A reflection on existential exhaustion, the cruelty built into existence, and what it means to hold the darkness and the light in the same tired hands “I am the darkness. I am the cruelty. I am part of the madness that makes it all up. I am also the light, the joy, the light that…

  Sara McGuire

  May 25, 2026

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  animal suffering, blog, C-PTSD healing, consciousness, cptsd, darkness and light, emotional processing, existential exhaustion, factory farming, grief without resolution, healing journey, holding complexity, indifferent universe, inner child healing, Jungian psychology, late night thoughts, life, love, meaning of life, mental health, nihilism, radical honesty, self-awareness, shadow work, silent crying, the shadow self, writing

• The Shadow I Couldn’t Stand to See

  A reflection on shadow work, the mirror of projection, and a little girl who wasn’t allowed to ask for a glass of water. (This post contains affiliate links. See my full disclosure on my Resources page.) “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” — Carl Jung The People…

  Sara McGuire

  May 19, 2026

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  abuse, anxiety, c-PTSD, childhood trauma, cptsd, depression, emotional healing, father wounds, healing, healing journey, inner child, journaling, Jungian psychology, life, love, manipulation, mental health, patriarchy, projection, self help, self-awareness, self-worth, shadow integration, shadow work, trauma, writing

• We Are Free Now

  “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” — Coco Chanel A reflection on safety, indoctrination, and the long road back to trusting yourself. I started today with Day 2 of Lisa Romano’s inner child journaling guide. The theme was simple and devastating in equal measure: Sense of Safety. The prompt asked…

  Sara McGuire

  May 7, 2026

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  atheism, body autonomy, c-PTSD, childhood emotional neglect, childhood trauma, cult recovery, emotional safety, healing, healing journey, high control religion, indoctrination, inner child healing, life, mental health, reclaiming identity, religious trauma, self expression, self trust, writing