Tag: inner child
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Unearthing Stardust
A reflection on ancient things, a duck, and a grief eleven years unspoken This post contains affiliate links. See my full disclosure on my Resources page. “We are stardust, we are golden.” — Joni Mitchell Yesterday I was sharpening my small axe when something moved through my hands that didn’t feel like mine alone. As…
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She Came Back
A reflection on abandonment, the inner child, and what the body knows (This post contains affiliate links. See my full disclosure on my Resources page.) “My body shrank from being an adult into a child, right there in the pool.” I painted her in February 2025. A little girl, maybe seven or eight years old.…
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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…
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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…
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The Wound Beneath Everything
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” — Rumi A reflection on finally letting myself feel what I’ve been carrying. I started this morning with coffee, my cat Nacho curled up warm on my lap, and two journaling guides I’ve been meaning to work through. I didn’t know I was about to…
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The Purge and PTSD.
“Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it’s all in your head?” – Tracy Morgan Tonight I watched the movie “The First Purge”. It’s a story of a ‘new’ type of American government scheme to solve the social problems of poverty and other issues. It’s really fucked up…
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The Glass Caterpillar.
A Healing Dream can never be completely “interpreted,” or fully understood. Healing Dreams want us to stop making sense; not just to crack the case, but to enter the mystery. – Marc Ian Barasch I feel like I am in the darkest of depths some days. Like I am underwater and it is gray, green,…
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Father Wounds.
“So much of what we learn about love is taught by people who never really loved us.” – r.h. Sin I watched the movie “The Shack” on Netflix for the second time. I weep when I watch this. The main character, Mac, is in a car accident on his way to possibly confront his young…
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The Pain in the Process
I feel as if I am coming apart today. I feel like my arms and legs are disconnected from my body and my insides are turned around. I feel completely and utterly and inexplicably drained of energy, emotionally, and physically. These pains, these memories, these old traumatic events and nightmares that haunt me – they…
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I Want to Heal.
I want to heal from my traumas and hurts and pains. I want a brighter tomorrow to feel more whole, more MYSELF, and more integrated instead of feeling like a Picasso painting with so many breaks and cracks in my personality and mind. It is painful and difficult as past traumas and memories come up.…
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