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Reclamation and Focus: Pinning Down Our Past Through Descansos
Hello, if you’re new to the blog, thank you for being here. I’m Alice Perle, the author of Resolve. I write a weekly article that can be read via the website or subscribed to. Today, I invite you to join me on a journey through the concept of descansos. Descansos is a term introduced to me by renowned author Clarissa Pinkola Estes. When I first read Clarissa’s words they resonated and stayed with me whilst writing Resolve. I was preparing to be the guest on a podcast this week and wrote out some notes, including this introduction: My Brother Cut Off My Path I made it to my eighth year…
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Memoirs and Storytelling
I have always appreciated storytelling. Across every decade of my life, I have either listened to or read stories out loud to my children. Even as I learned to become a hypnotherapist, I discovered the wonderful art of hypnotic language and crafting metaphor loops. I love being mesmerised and visualising the stories as they play out on the page in front of me, through audio, or on a screen. In this week’s blog, I’m going to talk about the roles that I see memoirs and storytelling play to raise awareness and foster understanding of the family and societal taboo – sibling sexual abuse: Our memoirs and storytelling are powerful tools…
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Healthy Coping Strategies for Trauma Survivors
For May 2024, the weekly blog will be my answers to people’s questions via my Get In Touch form at www.aliceperle.com.au. We’ll begin with ‘What are healthy coping strategies for trauma survivors?’ Quite often, trauma survivors adopted unhealthy coping strategies that got them by when no one else was there for them, or when they felt that it was that way. It’s a feeling of being alone or being the only one. I choose to thank my old, unhealthy coping strategies and even current ones when they try to give me comfort and peace. However, most of those unhealthy coping strategies do not often connect with our personal values and…
