The Question Beneath the Question
Why 'what happened to you' opens a door that 'what is wrong with you' has always kept closed.
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Journal
Essays written slowly, for reading slowly — on trauma, grief, the nervous system, and the long work of returning to oneself.
The Body Keeps Its Own Record
Understanding arrives in an instant. The nervous system moves at another pace entirely.
Read the essayGrief Is Not a Problem to Be Solved
On sorrow that has nowhere to go, and what happens when it is finally given room.
Read the essayThe Child Who Learned to Be Good
The earliest bargain we make, and the cost of keeping it for thirty years.
Read the essayReading the Chart as a Life, Not a Forecast
Astrology at its most useful describes temperament and timing — never verdict.
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Why the right remedy is quiet, and why quiet is not the same as slight.
Read the essayPlants That Hold the Ground
On herbs as companions rather than substitutes, and the patience they ask of us.
Read the essayWhy Relationships Repeat
Patterns are not bad luck. They are old solutions still being applied to new people.
Read the essayOn Consciousness and the Limits of Explanation
Some of what happens in healing outruns our ability to account for it.
Read the essaySafety Before Insight
The most common mistake in trauma work is arriving at the truth too early.
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