I once overheard a female prisoner saying this to another prisoner and it’s stuck with me ever since. 😔 There are women out there who’ve been brainwashed, manipulated and controlled to the extent that they believe if their partner physically assaults them, they do it out of love. 💔 The cycle of trauma bonding is so real in this type of belief. WHAT IS TRAUMA BONDING? Contrary to what many believe, trauma bonding isn’t about bonding over shared…
I saw this quote on a very old little box in a very old, very grand lodge I stayed at in Scotland recently. 🏴 “A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke” is a line that appears in The Betrothed, a poem by Rudyard Kipling. In the poem, the speaker considers Maggie’s appearance and what she might be like at 50, and compares her to other women. He…
Each week I see anywhere between three and forty people for energy work, either in person or via remote healing. 🙌🏻 Because of the amount of people I’m working on each week I notice themes occuring in my clients. These themes can last weeks or even months. One of the themes I’m noticing right now is that people are needing cord cutting. Just like when we’re born with an umbilical cord attaching us to our mums, we…
“I am at a place in my life where peace is a priority. I make deliberate life choices to protect my mental, emotional and spiritual state.” This is a great affirmation you can repeat to yourself if peace has become a goal for you. I spent most of my life always achieving, working towards the next big goal or dream. I’ve been really blessed to always do work I love, helping people get unstuck from the darkest corners of…
I seem to be having a lot of conversations lately about codependent relationships. Firstly, it’s important to know that even strong, independent people end up in codependent relationships. I know this first hand after being in many codependent relationships myself, even though I consider myself a very independent person. WHERE DOES IT ALL START? As a kid, if you’ve experienced the following things it leaves you way more likely to find yourself in codependent relationships as an adult: 😢…
I was listening to the Matthew Hussey podcast the other day and they were talking about relationships as they always do. 🫶🏻 It was a pretty interesting depth convo about a range of things but at one point his wife said “I like me more than you.” She wasn’t saying this to him; she was saying it in relation to people who leave a relationship that isn’t good for their best self because they CHOOSE themselves over being “less…