You deserve an Amends or Restitution
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Living Amends (Atonement) or Restitution Letter is a sincere apology that includes acknowledging the…
Affirmations – if you speak it, you can believe it. I believe you can heal well, my friend!
Affirmations are one of my favorite tools. I used affirmations at the beginning of my healing journey. Today, I use them when I need to pause and examine how I…
A Cost Letter can be very Helpful (Pt. 2)
Why is writing and reading the Cost letter important for your healing? It’s one thing not to be ready to take this step, but it’s another thing not to see…
A Cost Letter can be very Helpful (Pt. 1)
Writing and sharing a Cost letter was a significant step in my healing process. Although this took place years ago, I must share my experience with this and stress how…
Tools for Healing: Meditation
Different things might come to mind when people hear “meditation.” For example, a highly spiritual person on top of a mountain meditating in the sun, a yoga fanatic, a hippy,…
Sexual Self-esteem!
Some of you may be asking yourself what is “sexual self-esteem”? I like Gila Shipiro’s psychotherapist and certified sex therapist definition of sexual self-esteem, “the feelings you have about your…
My Dance with Codependency
When I first learned the term Codependency, I quickly decided I didn’t fit the description. After all, I had a sense of self, my life didn’t revolve around my husband,…
It’s a TRAUMA, NOT A SICKNESS
I am so grateful I saw a therapist who approached my situation as “healing from betrayal.” I can’t even imagine if I had experienced some of the horror stories, I’ve…
Tools for Healing !!!!
Once a month, I will post my thoughts on tools that helped me in the past that I continue to use. This month I wanted to talk about a tool…
MY STORY (Pt. 2)
THE DISCLOSURE I received the disclosure in a car on the side of a road, which was worse than I expected. The disclosure included things I hoped wouldn’t be in…
