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Author: Chelsey Fjeldheim

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You Did the Deep Work… Now What?

June 9, 2025

There’s this moment in trauma work that can feel strange. Subtle. Almost anticlimactic.It doesn’t come with fireworks or a dramatic breakthrough.It’s more like… you realize

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What It Really Looks Like

May 26, 2025

Therapy is not what most people imagine. It’s a space for truth, growth, and healing—messy and beautiful in its own way. Here’s what therapy really looks like.

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Artistic illustration showing three generations - elderly person, adult, and child - connected by a golden thread under a starry night sky with crescent moon, symbolizing healing generational trauma through conscious parenting and family connection

The Bridge Between Generations

May 19, 2025

Generational trauma doesn’t have to define your family’s future. This reflective piece explores how inherited pain shapes our parenting, why we repeat or overcorrect our parents’ mistakes, and how compassion can break the cycle. Learn to hold both love and pain with tenderness, offer your children what you once needed, and become the bridge between generations—healing not through perfection, but through honest connection and conscious awareness.

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A contemplative painting of a woman with long dark hair and closed eyes, hands clasped at her chest in a meditative or prayer-like gesture, surrounded by soft atmospheric lighting and muted green-gray tones that create a sense of introspection and quiet reflection.

When You Knew Better and Did It Anyway

May 12, 2025

There’s a certain kind of shame that rarely makes it into the stories we tell—the kind that says, “I knew better, and I did it anyway.” This shame bites harder because it leaves no soft landing. You can’t tell yourself you didn’t know or hide behind trying your best. That part gets shoved into the farthest corner, but what if the way forward isn’t about earning redemption?

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A contemplative painting showing two figures in profile - one reaching toward the other with an open palm in a gesture that could represent both connection and creating boundaries, painted in warm oranges and cool blues against a swirling background that suggests emotional complexity.

Just Because I Understand Your Trauma Doesn’t Mean You Get to Be a Jerk

May 5, 2025

There’s a quiet kind of pain that comes from understanding why someone hurt you. You see their childhood, the wound behind the words, the scared part that gets loud when cornered. But understanding trauma doesn’t make harmful behavior okay—and empathy without boundaries becomes self-abandonment.

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So, You’ve Done Something Horrible. Congratulations! You’re Human.

April 28, 2025

You’re not alone in your regrets. This is your invitation to release shame, share your story, and remember that being human means being lovable—even messy.

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Oil-painting-style image of two women facing each other, one bathed in warm orange, the other in cool blue, connected by a flowing thread of light—symbolizing empathy, presence, and the invisible thread of genuine connection.

Did You Even Ask Them How They Are?

April 21, 2025

We all want to be seen—but are we really seeing others? This reflection explores the simple power of asking how someone is, and meaning it.

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Surreal art of a man standing between two mirrors, each reflecting a different version of himself—symbolizing duality, perception, and conflicting truths.

Two People, Two Truths—Which One Is Real?

April 14, 2025

Can two opposing truths about us both be real? This piece reflects on identity, perception, and the freedom of not needing to be fully understood.

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Surreal art of a lone figure standing beneath a sky filled with shadowy silhouettes, symbolizing the presence and memory of lost loved ones.

When grief finds you

April 7, 2025

Grief finds us in the quiet, the unexpected, and the unresolved. It’s not just about loss—it’s about love, memory, and what made us who we are.

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A warm light shines through an open arched doorway into a dark, shadowy space, symbolizing hope, healing, and stepping into courage.

You’re the Reason It Matters

March 31, 2025

This award isn’t really about us. It’s about you—your courage, your story, your choice to show up for your healing. You’re the reason this work matters.

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