Love around to me

I realized as I was reflecting on my own disillusionment with dating and plutonic relationships that I always felt safer in one that was non-committal and never trusted consistency in another, but both were lies that told me to keep searching for the perfect "one". It wasn’t until I heard a message that explained one …

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Therapy for the sinful parts

Psychologically feeding the needs of readers through the written word. I have crossed state lines and country borders to study family and human behavior in hopes of healing my own complex trauma. Without fear of using my own stories and experiences to highlight the topics that most choose to deny, my journey of healing has …

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Parts of me fear the evening

Task Master Part: "Well I have all these ideas during the day and get so emotionally exhausted at night because if I'm not productive during the day I feel like a loser". Distracted Part: "But the sun always calls me and summer is hard for me to focus inside when the warmth comforts". Risk Part: …

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Speak up, a poem

I find myself being quiet to avoid confrontation because my parents were scary when I was small and there was not allowance for my expression. Funny though, because last night at work I got written up for speaking my opinion. I have fought hard for the healing of my internal system and many parts have …

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Disordered parts don’t define us

I struggled with a chemical imbalance that diagnosed me with depression that manifested as an impending doom cloud each day I opened my eyes for over three decades. That type of imbalance trailed throughout many of the psycho-somatic ailments that Doctors believed were my lot in life, but they weren't. Nobody could offer the anecdote …

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Stability or not

I was loading my car with groceries the other day and overheard two men talking about the ridiculous hours they work just to afford life.  As they were departing one said to the other, "hey, at least it's a job", and I shut my car door wanting to leap out of it and ask them, …

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Trust your own opinion

We each have two armpits which doubles our chances if having conflicting opinions within ourself, how much more daunting it is during this time to sift through the opinions of others. Take a breath, because the greatest exploits from heaven are about to take place. When darkness and evil rise, Our Savior will raise the …

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Dear Hate

Dear hate I saw you on the news today like a shock that takes my breath awayyou fall like rain, cover us in drops of painI’m afraid that we just might drowndear hate well, you sure are colorblindyour kiss is the cruelest kindyou could poison any mind, just look at mine don’t know how this …

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You are more than your parts

Wow, when your emotions take a tumbling through life, it is powerful to learn how IFS Therapy can empower one to heal the past. Praying that I can couple Christianity and counseling through this model in a way that heals others who have been wounded from church practices. So much of “bad behavior” has been …

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