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Telling Your Story Isn’t the Same as Being Witnessed (opens the original)
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In my first year of graduate school one of our required classes was poetry therapy. As a child I loved writing poetry so you might be surprised that seeing this class on my schedule make me break out in a cold sweat. There have always been two things with the ability to break me open: music and poetry. Even though when I entered graduate school I thought I had finished all of my healing work, some part of me knew there were dark recesses that I had not explored and poetry was likely to shine lig
Ask Me Anything: Healing Trauma Edition (opens the original)
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I invited my readers to send me their questions about healing trauma and have answered them here in video format. A list of the questions addressed is below.If, after watching this video, you have further comments or questions please drop them in the comments, or if it feels to private you can feel free to DM me.If you have additional questions you would like me to address in the next AMA session, please also leave them here or send them to me in a DM.Subscriber Questions:How can we stay in a se
The Fourth Role (opens the original)
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I read constantly as a child. It was how I “left” the house (and my body) without actually leaving it. What I reached for were fairytales and myths, which in hindsight I don't think was an accident. I was looking for the part of the story when a savior arrives.In 1968 a psychiatrist named Stephen Karpman published a paper called “Fairytales and Script Drama Analysis”. He was working in transactional analysis, and he noticed that the same three roles kept turning up in children’s stories. He call
The Only Way Out Is Through: Grief as Transformation (opens the original)
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Welcome , I’m Linnea and I write about healing at the intersection of science and spirituality, and embracing the Both-And. I’m so glad you’re here.AboutThere’s a moment in the therapy room that is both painful and beautiful, and it always wakes up a sense of reverence in me. A client releases an old pattern, and the grief of everything that pattern once held moves through them and out. That is the moment the seed of transformation is planted.
The Obstacle IS the Path (opens the original)
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Click to listen:“The obstacle is the path” is one of those Zen sayings we nod at and move past. Just like the way we respond “fine” when someone asks how we are. It’s reflexive. But what happens when we really contemplate what this saying means, and then begin to live it?Our world expands.Subscribe nowThe Comfort TrapWe hate discomfort, and of course we do! Our nervous systems are built to move us away from pain a
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