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A Self-Compassion Exercise: Write a Letter to Your Younger Self
Compassion induces transformation – a relaxing of the fear, the grief, the hiding.
Leah Kostamo
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Brave Questions for Personal Growth
Entering a new phase of personal growth can feel like stepping into new terrain. The old habitual patterns that kept us stuck give way to...
Leah Kostamo
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Before the Trauma Work: Resource
Engaging in therapy to heal from past trauma is brave work. Though it can result in a lasting experience of freedom and wholeness, it can...
Leah Kostamo
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Get Unstuck with Expressive Writing
Expressive writing is an efficient and effective way to process trauma of all sorts.
Leah Kostamo
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Lifespan Integration Therapy - a gentle treatment for trauma
Lifespan integration (LI) is a newer form of therapy, approximately twenty-five years old, developed by Peggy Pace, a therapist who...
Leah Kostamo
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Walking on the Wild Side: the benefits of nature therapy
I step off the northeast corner of our little farm and into a forest. It’s a small patch of trees really; semi-trucks can be heard...
Leah Kostamo
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The Art of Living (and Dying)
My sister sits daily at the bedsides of the dying. She is a hospice chaplain. On a recent visit to a private residence, my sister was...
Leah Kostamo
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Swimwear for Eighty-year-olds
My mother-in law wears a bikini. She is 80-years-old and decades of gravity have done their work. But she wears a bikini nonetheless,...
Leah Kostamo
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