The healing binary is a falsehood

THE HEALING BINARY IS A FALSEHOOD //

Sure, there are healing practitioners and survivors, but they’re not always mutually exclusive.

We can be in a process of healing and also offer that to others.

We can offer care and also deeply need to fill our own cup.
We can help folks and we can also harm them.

Healing, life, humans —> it’s all complex. Perhaps it’s complicated than a binary. Perhaps we can be more than one thing at once.

Sometimes, our brain likes boxes and rubrics and categorization (we’ll touch on the wise reasons for this in the mini course!), but often, they fall short.

In How To Talk: how to talk about trauma with invalidating our clients, we’ll explore:

🐝 the ways we think and talk about trauma and why (including the Big T/little t framework!)

🌻 approaches for connecting with clients through trauma informed language

💛 compassionate practices for tending to our self and our “stuff”

Because the binary is a lie. If you’re a healing practitioner, you are also a whole human, and you might need care too.

If you feel like two incompatible things, maybe you’re not.

If you feel like a box or binary can’t contain you, maybe it can’t.

And what if, in healing and in life, that’s not a problem?

Spots are still open in the free mini course which begins on Wednesday November 3rd! Three daily trauma informed lessons will land in your inbox, and I’d love to have you if it sounds like your cup of tea. Click here to join, if you’d like.

Talk soon,

Jess

P.S. Of course there are times we are so deep in a process it ends up clouding our client care and/or causing harm. Just wanted to name that because I imagine many of us have experienced it as either a client or a practitioner, or both.