Last month, we explored “The Courage to Feel”—the vital ability to stay present with our emotions rather than bypassing them. This month, I want to talk about what happens when we can’t access that courage—particularly for women who carry the invisible weight of medical trauma—and how that unprocessed trauma can quietly hijack our judgment in…
The Courage to Heal Trauma Healing trauma takes something most of us were never taught to value — the courage to feel. Not to manage, suppress, or think our way through our emotions, but to actually feel them fully. In my thirty years of working with women as a homeopath and Advanced Integrative Therapist in…
I heard the phrase, love and joy are acts of defiance from an online teacher, and it has been echoing in my mind ever since. Maybe because I’m clinging to it in the face of the chaos in the world. Maybe because, deep down, I know it’s true. Love and joy are not passive states;…
Many years ago, in the middle of my own healing from body trauma, I set out to find my next home, wearing a necklace to remind me that my true home was always within — my heart, my body, and my soul.But feeling at home in my body didn’t come easily. I had to heal…
What do you know about medical trauma? Medical trauma is more common than most people realize — and more damaging than the medical system likes to admit. Over the years, I’ve noticed a growing pattern among the people I work with: stories of mishandling, mistreatment, or dismissal from the medical community. And I am not…
