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When Your Child Provokes and Your Partner Yells: A Guide to Boundaries, Healing, and Hope (+Free Printable)
Learn practical strategies for when your child provokes and your partner yells at them. Discover how to set healthy boundaries, protect your emotional well-being, manage your own triggers, and use therapeutic tools like Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Nonviolent Communication (NVC). This guide offers actionable exercises, repair rituals, and insights into child development and family…
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Why We Long to Start a Family Early: Healing Childhood Emotional Neglect and Embracing Wholeness (+ Free Guide)
Explore how Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN) can fuel an intense longing to start a family early. This trauma-informed article unpacks the hidden emotional drivers behind family urgency and offers reflection prompts, IFS-based tools, and reparenting practices. Whether you’re planning a family or already have one, this guide helps you understand your inner needs with compassion…
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Why Rest Feels Unsafe: Healing from the Inner Critic + Free Journal
Rest shouldn’t feel wrong. Learn how childhood criticism created an inner voice that resists rest—and how to reclaim stillness with compassion.
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The 8 Hidden Wounds That Shape How We Parent — And How to Gently Heal the Echoes
Learn Pete Walker’s 8 types of childhood trauma — four abuses and four neglects — and how they shape our parenting today. Discover why these cycles repeat and how to break them gently with IFS, practical tools, and free guides.
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Dopamine-Seeking Habits and CEN: Risk and Thrill-Seeking (Part 1 of 6)
Thrill-seeking behaviors like fast driving, risky adventures, or emotional chaos may be linked to childhood emotional neglect (CEN). Explore the roots of risk addiction and how to reclaim real aliveness with grounding tools, IFS exercises, and a free guide.
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Dopamine-Seeking Habits and CEN: What Your Behaviour Is Really Trying to Tell You
Understand how Childhood Emotional Neglect drives dopamine-seeking habits like thrill-seeking, overworking, shopping, drinking or scrolling. Begin to heal with clarity and care.
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Why Your Child Acts Out with Their Father — and You’re Left Carrying It All (+Free IFS Dialogue)
When your child whines for dad and he avoids conflict, you’re left carrying the parenting weight. Here’s why it triggers you — and how to set boundaries.
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The Freeze Melts Into Fire: Why Sudden Anger Might Be a Sign of Deep Emotional Healing (+ free journal)
If you’ve been feeling intense anger out of nowhere—snapping at loved ones, overwhelmed by rage—you’re not broken. Learn how unprocessed grief, emotional neglect, and long-buried trauma can turn into explosive anger, and why this can actually be a step toward healing.
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Becoming the Parent You Needed: Healing the Mother-Daughter Dynamic (+free journal)
Explore the emotional complexity of mother-daughter dynamics and how past wounds can shape parenting today. This healing article invites mothers into awareness, repair, and becoming the parent they longed for—featuring a free guided journal for post-rupture reconnection.
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Why Am I Sabotaging My Stable Job While Overworking on My Side Hustle? Understanding Shadow Motivations & Finding Balance (+free PDF)
Feeling stuck between a stable job and a passion-driven side hustle? Learn how to navigate self-sabotage, shadow motivations, and career transitions with psychology-backed strategies and practical exercises. Download your free Gentle Transition Workbook today!
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Tarot for Shadow Work: The Symbolic Power of Tarot in Psychology & Myth (Part 5 of 6) + free PDF
Discover how tarot connects to Jungian psychology, personal myths, and self-exploration. Learn how symbols and archetypes reveal your unconscious patterns and guide deep healing.
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Tarot for Shadow Work: Practical Techniques & Spreads (Part 4 of 6) + free PDF
Discover powerful tarot techniques for shadow work in this step-by-step guide. Learn how to use tarot spreads to explore hidden fears, integrate suppressed parts of yourself, and find healing. Includes sample readings, psychological insights, and a free downloadable Shadow Work Tarot Journal.
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Tarot for Shadow Work: The Minor Arcana as a Mirror for Everyday Struggles (Part 3 of 6) + free PDF
Introduction: The Shadows in the Small Moments Many people think of shadow work as diving deep into their past traumas, exploring the vast unconscious, or confronting their most hidden fears. While those elements are certainly part of the journey, the small, everyday moments often reveal just as much about our inner world. Think about this:…
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When Change Feels Like a Threat: Healing Powerlessness with IFS
When unexpected changes feel overwhelming, your inner parts may be reacting to past experiences of powerlessness. Learn how IFS therapy can help you work with your Manager, Firefighter, and Exile parts to heal deep-seated fears of losing control. Includes practical exercises and a free worksheet to guide your healing journey.
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Tarot for Shadow Work: The Major Arcana as a Roadmap to Your Hidden Self (Part 2 of 6) + free PDF
Unlock the hidden depths of your subconscious through tarot shadow work. Explore the Major Arcana as a roadmap for self-discovery, healing, and personal transformation. Learn practical tarot spreads, psychological insights, and how to integrate your shadow for lasting growth.
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Tarot for Shadow Work? A Beginner’s Guide (Part 1 of 6) + free PDF
Discover how tarot can be a powerful tool for shadow work. Learn practical tarot spreads for self-exploration, uncover hidden aspects of yourself, and integrate Jungian and IFS psychology into your practice.