It can be a powerful time for trauma work when starting a family of your own.
The people I work with are young adults, parents-to-be and parents who:
are highly self critical to avoid being with messiness and what cannot be controlled
use alcohol, substances, food, exercise, work/ busyness or caretaking to manage or stay away from feelings
expect the worst and prepare to self protect
are very sensitive to and overly focused on the people around them
My clients share about anxiety or depression since childhood or have complicated family of origin dynamics. Some of my clients have received PTSD, Complex PTSD or Borderline Personality Disorder diagnoses in the past. Others don’t believe they have experienced trauma yet are concerned that there is something wrong, bad or broken about them. Sometimes this shows up as an overemphasis on “being good” or “doing right”.
Our work together is to nurture post traumatic growth and the discovery of a greater sense of choice, freedom, wisdom, strength and peace.
As we connect back to ourselves; we deepen our capacity to have meaningful, nourishing connections with others. It’s my belief that by increasing our capacity to live better in the world and accept it as it is, we can then affect meaningful change. From this place there is an invitation: to create a better future for ourselves.
