“Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin.” ~ from Emerging With Wings by Danielle Bernock

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I have realized that my specialty is Being With. I'm not a fixer/convincer/advisor. I honor, companion, witness. And I believe that's what heals. As Freud wrote, “Analysis is, in essence, a cure through love.” By analysis he meant psychoanalysis.

I listen. I get it. And doesn't it feel good to be truly heard and attended to body/mind/spirit?