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Traumatic Experiences, Grieving, and Life’s transitions

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allowing your heart to be present – healing from the inside out

As part of the human experience, we have all experienced hurt along the way throughout our lives, and sometimes those hurts and losses seem to be interwoven into who we are, and how we show up in the world. It’s interesting how sometimes those past hurts keep showing up over and over again, maybe in our relationships? or jobs? In the way we communicate? Maybe it’s how we protect ourselves or hide our vulnerability? What if it could be different?

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Trauma

Our wounds can come in many forms and traumatic experiences can mean different things to different people. Your experience is unique, and your therapy should be just as unique while honoring those experiences. Even when the trauma is prolonged, repeated interpersonal trauma, healing can happen. Together we can walk into your dark spaces and shine the light on the experiences that hold you in pain and shame, as we also honor the ways in which you have protected yourself along the way. I work with people who may be processing traumatic experiences including childhood abuse, sexual trauma, natural disasters, family member death, baby death, divorce, adoption, or any experiences that carry the meaning of being traumatic for you along your life path.

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Cumulative Trauma

Prolonged, repeated interpersonal trauma, are experiences that you may have had over and over again throughout either your childhood, adult life or both. These are the traumatic experiences that have become interwoven with your identity as a person. It can feel as if  they become part of who you are. Sometimes these experiences are the very connection we may have with people we want to love. Working our way through the processing of cumulative trauma is not about “letting go of,” or cutting yourself off from relationships necessarily. Actually, healing from this type of interpersonal hurt and entanglement, has very little to do with the other person or people involved. It is more about going back and picking up the pieces of yourself that were lost, or left behind in the process. This is about loving yourself whole again and untangling yourself from the things that aren’t really yours.
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Grief, Loss, Divorce & Transitions

Grief and loss is something that is provided for us just for being human. It can come in many shapes and forms and sometimes sneaks up on us in “not so traditional” places. There is no wrong way to process loss, transition or change. Just like your physical body has intuitive knowing in healing, emotionally, our brain and heart will do what it needs to do to heal from these types of losses as well. I strive to provide a space where you are supported within your own grieving experience however that looks to you, using this time to honor these experiences, honor what has been lost and to honor what comes next.
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There are many different experiences that show up in our human lives that result in grief, loss and hurt.
Sometimes grief and loss comes in the form of the loss of a loved one, a pet, a death of a baby, abortion, adoption.
Sometimes it comes in the form of divorce, the ending of relationship, an affair or a transition of any type of relationship.
Sometimes it’s when our children are leaving home or growing and transitioning within their own lives. Or when a parent is aging and changing.
Maybe the loss is felt through a job change, moving cities or houses.
Sometimes it’s just the change in seasons that open up the past hurts of change and transition. Transitions alone can bring forward feelings of grief for you and your family.
There are many things we find ourselves feeling in this human experience that fall into the category of bing left behind, hurt within our relationships, feeling alone, or having to begin again. Each one of our experiences are unique and how you process them will also be unique. Together we will hold space for the feelings, and set them down as one of the stepping stones as you continue through your human experience.

© Marie Celeste
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