What troubles you is not a problem that needs to be fixed but a broken heart that needs to be felt

Living with shame but what is underneath it , what is the source that sustains it.

Breaking open the container of grief

Transitioned for 25 years, now detransitioned , living with loss but healing shame.

After a life of desperation and crisis, when will we be safe enough to let go.

As I healed I saw how I'd hated myself for needing to be loved. Anger had turned into self harm

Healing and transformation, the inside is the outside.

I couldn't hide any longer, I broke open and allowed myself to be found.

Why is healing so painful, through the grief and heartbreak, what actually changes ?

I stopped coping , let my heart break and began to become real

After abuse. I'm learning to feel my body again. It is overwhelming but bringing me back to life.

Corinna Cohn and Sam talk about transition, the abstraction of identity and truthful relationships

After a life of being severed from myself , I'm coming alive in my body for the first time

Emmy van Deurzen and Sam talk about existential crisis and doing our best to be truthful humans

After a lifetime defined by abuse, I saw the whole pattern and felt the hunger to be free

Sam and The Metaphysical Cowboy talk about THE PROCESS, resistance, loss and radical acceptance.

After complex trauma. Don't hate yourself, there is no humility in self hate.

Surviving childhood trauma. Shame is a way of staying alive.

Childhood trauma- adult recovery. From the deepest sorrow comes the deepest compassion.

In a life of desperation and crisis, loss of hope was the beginning of surrender and transformation

After abuse and a life of coping, wipe the tears from your eyes and make peace with yourself

After complex trauma and a life of coping, nothing is healed, no wound is repaired.

long term consequences of childhood trauma - CPTSD - WITH TENDER CARE HEALING OUR GIANT SPIDERS

Everything is abstract, only love is real.

After complex trauma. The path to finding peace.

Detransitioning after 25 years. From self centredness to surrender

We are all detransitioning from our stories, letting go of our masks and revealing the true self.

After a life of brutality, at what cost did I survive. Only now have I found self love.

I grieved the loss of everything and found my innocence

I experienced a breakdown and will never be the same again