Child Abuse Survivor Monument

A reader asked me to share this link with everyone about a Child Abuse Survivor Monument.

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40 Excellent Blogs for PTSD Support

The fact that you are hearing about a 10/6/10 blog entry today tells you how backlogged I have become in my email! Blooming Lotus was featured as one of 40 Excellent Blogs for PTSD Support. Here is what the blog said about this site: Blooming Lotus: Faith Allen’s blog serves as a well-respected, insightful and [...]

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Good Article on Overcoming Food Addiction

I was waiting on my hairdresser yesterday when the cover of Redbook magazine caught my eye. Trust me – that is unusual for me! The cover was advertising an article inside about the real reasons that women have trouble losing weight. I flipped over to the article curious to see if my observations (the need [...]

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Met Another Inner Child

I “met” another inner child through a dream, and I will be curious to see if this inner child returns in my future dreams. I have shared previously about my son, N, representing my inner child in my dreams. A reader helped me recognize that N is now okay and is actually smiling. I have [...]

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Do We Have a Responsibility to Help One Another Heal?

Over the weekend, I saw Matt Damon’s new movie Hereafter. I was not overly impressed by the movie in large part due to the V-E-R-Y S-L-O-W pacing, but that is irrelevant to the point of today’s blog entry. Matt Damon’s character, George, had the ability to connect with anyone’s loved ones who had died by [...]

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Visualization: Creating a “Safe Place” in Your Head

On my blog entry entitled We are the Ones Who Heal Ourselves, a reader posted the following comment: I met a girl [alter part] last night. She told me she lives in a peach colored room that the others built for her to keep her safe because they love her. There is no door in [...]

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Alternative Healing: Expressive Therapy

On my blog entry entitled We are the Ones Who Heal Ourselves, a reader shared in the comments about expressive therapy. I confess that I knew very little about expressive therapy, so I asked him to explain further. Here is an excerpt of his description: I think it is very very personal…Your writing here is [...]

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Forgiving Your Body

A reader named Jen sent me a wonderful letter to her body that she has given me permission to share with you. Last week was particularly grueling for me, and I was not kind to my body during that time. I need to follow Jen’s example and seek forgiveness from my body for the ways [...]

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Alternative Healing: Colors

In my blog entry yesterday, I highlighted Sabrina Mesko’s book, Healing Mudras: Yoga for Your Hands. The book contains basic information about alternative healing methods in addition to healing mudras. I was fascinated by a section on healing colors. The colors apparently align with the colors of the Chakras, which I admit that I know [...]

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Alternative Healing: Mudras

A friend recently told me about mudras, which is basically yoga for the hands. I had never heard of such a practice, but yoga and meditation are actually filled with mudras, such as the mudra of making a circle with your thumb and index finger when you meditate. My friend recommended Sabrina Mesko’s book, Healing [...]

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