Blocks to Breakthroughs Coaching

What’s on your gratitude list today? Some days I forget to do this, so I am reminding myself to find at least 3 things every day to be grateful for. 💜🌈😊

You may have heard people talk about healing your inner child, but the truth is that you have many inner children, teenagers, young adults, etc. which need to be witnessed, heard and healed. I prefer the term “Younger Selves,” which is really more accurate. These younger selves were “frozen in time” at the time of a traumatic event due to the freeze stress response (which Dr. Robert Scaer calls “trauma capsules.”) Let’s free them together. Click on link in Bio to schedule a session.

Ain’t THAT the truth!

Don’t abandon yourself…choose YOU!

This is why I like IFS (Internal Family Systems) so much. It’s so important to get to know all the “parts” or sub personalities of our psyche. And especially those parts of ourselves we’ve disowned. This is what Shadow Work is all about. Learning to compassionately accept and embrace those rejected aspects of ourselves.

“If our environment cannot support our gut feelings and our emotions, then the child, in order to ‘belong’ and ‘fit in’ will automatically, unwittingly and unconsciously, suppress their emotions and their connections to themselves, for the sake of staying connected to the nurturing environment, without which the child cannot survive. A lot of children are in this dilemma – ‘can I feel and express what I feel or do I have to suppress that in order to be acceptable, to be a good kid, to be a nice kid?’” ~ Dr. Gabor Mate

Subtle agreements are made with our parents—if I give up myself, you’ll love me; if I hide, do what’s “right”, fit in, not rock the boat, our relationship will stay intact and I’ll be safe.

It’s time to heal our wounded younger selves.

A good reminder when sometimes you feel like you’re “drowning” from negative life circumstances.

Not a fan of toxic positivity and spiritual bypassing. Keep it real, authentic, and compassionate!

This is a hard one for all you People Pleasers out there

Always a good reminder, especially for all those other people you know who are control freaks 😉