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The impact of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) on sexual development is significant and often overlooked. While many treatment models focus on symptom reduction—managing anxiety, depression, or dysregulatio...

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A striking pattern shows up in families impacted by childhood trauma: the person who seeks therapy is often the only one who ever does. In many cases, it’s just one individual across multiple generations who chooses to e...

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“The power of the heart is that it can hold everything. Grief and joy, fear and love. Rage and compassion. When we allow the heart to expand, we create the spaciousness needed for the energy of our experiences to be felt...

","url":"https://sensingtheself.com/blog/f/grief-a-journey-of-transformation-through-the-alchemical-process","title":"Grief: A Journey Of transformation Through the Alchemical Process","summary":"“The power of the heart is that it can hold everything. Grief and joy, fear and love. Rage and compassion. When we allow the heart to expand, we create the spaciousness needed for the energy of our experiences to be felt...","date_modified":"2026-03-11T22:12:09Z"},{"id":"https://sensingtheself.com/blog/f/the-energy-of-emotions-why-positive-vibes-matter","html_content":"

Understanding Frequency as a Path to Awareness and Change

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It comes from a wounded inner child.

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Trauma and Re-enactment

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Inner child work is a therapeutic process of exploring your childhood experiences and how they influence your present-day thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This work intentionally seeks to reconnect with, understand, an...

","url":"https://sensingtheself.com/blog/f/inner-child-work-wjournal-prompts-reparent-reprocess-regulate","title":"Inner Child Work (w/Journal Prompts): Reparent Reprocess Regulate","summary":"Inner child work is a therapeutic process of exploring your childhood experiences and how they influence your present-day thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This work intentionally seeks to reconnect with, understand, an...","date_modified":"2026-01-30T16:56:17Z"},{"id":"https://sensingtheself.com/blog/f/post-traumatic-growth-the-phenomenon-of-transformation","html_content":"

In trauma therapy, it’s tempting to get excessively focused on the trauma itself. But overly identifying with what happened to you can keep you stuck in the past and the familiarity of that painful story. Change requires...

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Understanding Emotional Triggers

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People are often motivated to begin therapy because certain behaviors are creating painful or problematic outcomes—whether in their health, relationships, work, or legal circumstances. All behavior has consequences; this...

","url":"https://sensingtheself.com/blog/f/why-we-often-seek-therapy-when-behavior-becomes-a-barrier","title":"When Behavior Becomes a Barrier: Why We Seek Therapy","summary":"People are often motivated to begin therapy because certain behaviors are creating painful or problematic outcomes—whether in their health, relationships, work, or legal circumstances. All behavior has consequences; this...","date_modified":"2026-01-17T22:24:27Z"},{"id":"https://sensingtheself.com/blog/f/reduce-anxiety-embrace-uncertainty-change-and-growth","html_content":"

“In our modern world of unprecedented technological and scientific advancements, the idea that questions may remain unanswered is unsettling. This discomfort stems from our psychological need for control - a fundamental ...

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Fear is a primal and necessary emotion. The Oxford Dictionary defines fear as “an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.” Fear is one of the ear...

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Embracing Safety and Empowerment

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“Coherence is the state when the heart, mind, and emotions are in energetic alignment and cooperation. It is a state that builds resilience.” - Dr. Rollin McCraty, Research Director at The Heartmath Institute

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The subcortical brain and autonomic nervous system work in tandem to keep us safe in the face of threat, perceived or actual. With physical threat, we rely on the fight, flight, freeze response to activate and keep us ph...

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Shifting from: Anger/Fear, Resentment, and Survival -> Safety, Acceptance, and Freedom

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The Expansive Container is a simple exercise I created that combines somatic awareness and breathwork with a visualization component. It's an invitation to strengthen the mind-body connection and learn how to get \"comfor...

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