Blogs & Musings
Welcome to Anne-Marie’s musings and articles
The Domesticating Traps of Gender Expectations and Norms
What is domestication? Domestication is the absence of being wild. I use the term domestication to convey the experience of what occurs when we lose connection with our wild, sovereign, authentic self. This is a common outcome when we make who we think we should...
What Is Trauma?
What is trauma?Three areas that further define trauma:2. Trauma causes a fragmented sense of self3. Trauma is unresolved energy stored in the mind-bodySHAKE IT OFF: MOVING FROM ACTIVATION INTO DISCHARGE & RESOLUTIONCreating space to shake it offAn example of...
8 Common Impacts of Trauma
What are potential impacts of trauma?Let’s look at a few common impacts of trauma:2. Feelings of isolation, self-doubt, and aggression3. Extreme numbness or overwhelm with sensations4. Unexpected resurgences of bottled up emotions5. Causes illness and imbalances in...
Trauma Pathways: Personal & Biographical Trauma
What is trauma?Three common trauma pathwaysTrauma pathways: Personal trauma1. Physical and psychological traumaTrauma hidden in plain sight2. Attachment and developmental traumaattachment and regulationThe primal need to belong3. EXPANDED COSMOLOGIES OF...
Can We Rewire Our Beliefs?
Understanding repetition compulsionYour brain is the mapmaker of your belief systembeliefs create safetyBeliefs influence our emotional and physical responsesBeliefs exist as neuropathwaysCan we rewire our beliefs and prune outdated neuropathways?THE GENERAL STEPS TO...
Trauma Pathways: Collective & Cultural TraumaSep 8
Three common trauma pathwaysCollective trauma1. Cultural traumatic eventsAddressing cultural trauma2. The matrix of social and cultural conditioningWhat is the result of the matrix?A cultural atmosphere of fear creates trauma.How does mind control actually occur?My...
Your Relationship Patterns Are a Pathway to Heal & Integrate
Relationships reveal our desire to connect and our impulses to protectIdentifying familiar patternsWhy do we repeat what’s painful?The neuroscience of beliefsAttracting wound resonance relationshipsUnveiling our missing experiencesDeveloping nourishment barriersA...
Trauma Pathways: Ancestral & Inherited Trauma
Three common trauma pathwaysTrauma pathway: Ancestral traumaWhat does ancestral trauma feel like?Suppressed trauma lives on in the body2. Family and social conditioning traumaAn example of transforming social conditioning trauma3. Eco-psychology: The connection...
How Does a ‘Dark Night of the Soul’ Catalyze Our Integration & Healing?
What initiates a dark night of the soul?Death and rebirth: An immersion into the unknownA gateway to spiritual awakening and transformationMy personal experience of a dark night of the soulWhat each of my “dark nights” continue to reveal to meWhat about you — what is...
How Does Our Attachment Template Form?
Four phases: The growing architecture of our attachment templateImplicit memorythe importance of nervous system regulation2. PHASE 2: 6 TO 24 MONTHS3. PHASE 3: TWO TO SEVEN YEARSOUR UNIVERSAL NEED FOR BELONGING4. PHASE 4: SEVEN TO EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD Have you ever felt...