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Dropping the Christmas Bombshell
'We can’t have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same.' LORI GOTTLIEB, PSYCHOTHERAPIST & AUTHOR
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Step Back From the Cauldron
In the 1990s, that decade where my three children were born, there were three women who were part of a family system I was walking close to. I wasn’t trying to join them. They were just regularly in my space. The system clearly had a tough history, there were hard edges, a mean girls vibe, they shared intergenerational trauma that had not been resolved, and invisible rules. A family. A triangle. A trio as such.
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It’s Not Your Fault, It’s Not Your Fault, It’s Not Your Fault
I Wondered If He Was Speaking to Me! I’ve been busy creating lately and needed to stop for a few days. I found myself flicking through one of the books I bought at the Australian Childhood Foundation’s International Childhood Trauma Conference in August down in Melbourne. It’s titled Living Like Crazy by Professor Paul Gilbert. The title looks healthy, crazily enough! I had put my notes from his talk inside the book, my way of making me connect what I’d heard in the seminar. The seminar had hit home and that was the reason I bought two of his books, Living Like Crazy and the smaller Compassion-Focused Therapy, to understand…
