We’re taught to think healing is linear. We imagine it as a straight path. We process the past, learn the lesson and move forwards. But what if healing was never meant to look like a straight line? What if it was always a spiral? This week, while studying trauma-informed somatics, I was introduced to a beautiful perspective on karma. Not as reward or punishment, but as patterning—the ways we repeatedly think, feel and respond to life until those patterns are gently brought into our awareness

What happens to us when we grow up financially unsupported and why it goes so much deeper than money. Most often this is linked to parentification and here we explore what that means, how it may present and how you can begin to heal.

It’s no secret that the label “Lesbian” stirs up many mixed emotions for most of us who want to identify with the term, the negative...