inner child healing

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Father’s Day Grief: Grieving What Was Never Fully There

Father’s Day grief is not always about death. Sometimes it arrives quietly. Not as something dramatic or clearly defined – but as a feeling that settles in your body when the world begins to talk about fathers, and something inside you shifts. Maybe it’s a sadness you can’t quite explain. Maybe it’s a heaviness that […]

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Journaling: What Is It and How to Use It for Healing?

After publishing a blog post about how writing can help with our healing from trauma and pain, I was invited to join an online summit to talk on this topic. Since I have had several people contact me, wanting to know more about journaling for healing. I, therefore, decided to write more about this technique.

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