by Deborah Cox | Sep 13, 2016 | Mood
Spiritual abuse includes any kind of religious teaching or practice that diminishes your human rights, isolates you from the wider world, or systematically places you in positions of low power. I modeled these affirmations for healing spiritual abuse on those...
by Deborah Cox | Sep 5, 2016 | Becoming More of Your True Self, child maltreatment, EMDR, Mood, Therapy, Write and Heal
Repression: I once knew what this was and then I forgot. Last weekend, I attended the EMDRIA conference in Minneapolis where physician, Gabor Maté, spoke about the connections between trauma, emotional repression, and disease. He told the story of his Jewish infant...
by Deborah Cox | Aug 22, 2016 | Mood
I believe you. I think it’s important for you to know that. When someone’s taking you seriously, you stay more awake to your observations. Sometimes we knock down the disturbing ones, like a kid playing Whack-a-Mole. We fear a dawning realization. We don’t...
by Deborah Cox | Jul 18, 2016 | Mood
I have shunned and been shunned. What leads me to turn my back? Repeated bullying or toxic behavior that takes a mental or physical toll. Abuse toward me or others, without acknowledgement of impact. It makes me sad, but out of self-preservation, I’ve sometimes...
by Deborah Cox | Jun 27, 2016 | Anxiety & Calm, Becoming More of Your True Self, EMDR, Feel Better, Mood, Relationships, Therapy, Write and Heal
I used to fall a lot. On the sidewalk. In my yard. Up a flight of marble stairs. About seven years ago, after a string of bizarre falls where I ended up with scars on my shins and a pulled muscle in my back, I followed the trail of breadcrumbs and made a body-mind...
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