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Locus of Control:Your Mental Health Superpower
Imagine this: You're juggling flaming swords, riding a unicycle, trying to file your taxes, and also coping with the fact that it just...

Leah Kostamo


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


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


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


Get Unstuck with Expressive Writing
Expressive writing is an efficient and effective way to process trauma of all sorts.

Leah Kostamo


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


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


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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