On Healing Trauma By Learning to Recognize Yourself Again It was our last day in our gorgeous airbnb in Provence, and time to finally start cleaning up all the items we’d left strewn across the bnb for the week. (Does anyone else ever wake up in a cold sweat imagining...
Posts About: Trauma
On Learning to Trust
On Learning to Trust One theme of sabbatical, that I am sure is regularly true in my daily life at home too but somehow seems more pronounced here, have been all the “happy accidents.” Every one of them began as a near-catastrophe (the “nightmares” I referred to...
Charity Shares Guest Blog about Trauma Healing
This week, Charity was invited to share a guest blog about trauma healing at the Touchstone Foundation, a Mental Health Organization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Here is an excerpt from the blog: In this guest blog, Charity O’Reilly is a Licensed Professional Counselor...
Pull Up a Chair: Welcome to the Tea With a Trauma Therapist Online Course
Pull Up a Chair: Welcome to the Tea With a Trauma Therapist Online Course The work of healing trauma can be difficult and intense. I specialize in trauma therapy intensives, after all. But we make the work gentle by being prepared for it. EMDR therapists call this...
Charity Teaches Trauma Sensitive Yoga to Therapists
Charity Teaches Trauma Sensitive Yoga to Therapists at the Teen Conference Last week, Charity was honored to present to a group of therapists at the Teen Therapy Conference in Bluebell, PA about Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TSY). Charity was joined by her long-term...
Healing my Generational Trauma through Internal Family Systems Therapy in Ireland
Healing my Generational Trauma through Internal Family Systems Therapy in Ireland I'm just about as Irish as they come, but for the longest time I stayed away from anything having to do with my ancestry. You don't have to look far to figure out why: my ancestry is...
How to Protect Kids from Child Sexual Abuse
Body Safety: Teaching the "New" Basic Life Skill to Protect Kids from Child Sexual Abuse Parents and caregivers spend years teaching children how to navigate the world safely. We remind them to wear a helmet, buckle their seatbelts, and look both ways before crossing...
What an Intensive Therapy Retreat Really Looks Like
I often get asked, "What does an Intensive Therapy Retreat really look like?" Great question- I'm so glad you asked! What an Intensive Therapy Retreat Really Looks Like My intensive therapy retreats start with an intake. We take three hours together to really make...
This One’s For the Survivors (of childhood sexual abuse)
(Content warning: child sexual abuse. Only read if your inner children feel safe to do so ❤️. If you need immediate support, please reach out to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network- RAINN- today) Healing Our Inner Children After Childhood Sexual Abuse The...
How an EMDR Trauma Therapist and IFS coach are surviving these times
Coping Strategies from a EMDR Trauma Therapist & IFS Coach Our hearts have been heavy- and the heaviness just seems to keep compounding. Here are the things we are doing as an EMDR Trauma Therapist and IFS coach to stay well in these times, so as people with a...