Trauma bonding tends to be defined as a strong attachment with someone (or something) abusing us or causing us harm. By this definition it is inherently negative, and the advice …
Tag Archives: boundaries
Clean & Dirty Pain
Blog by Valerie
I recently came across the concepts of clean and dirty pain. This is a well written deep dive if you want to read it before I share …
Witnessing
Blog by Valerie
Witnessing is an important method of learning and healing. In a MOOC (massive open online course) I recently completed on indigenous early child development, witnessing was …
Boundaries & integrity
Blog by Valerie
There’s a lot of rhetoric about boundaries, and setting healthy boundaries, and crossing boundaries, but in essence, we’re talking about integrity, or wholeness. From google, the etymology …