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Lynn Fraser Stillpoint
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My Dream For My Life

What would be on your collage of images representing what you dreamed your life would be like? Firefighter? Doctor? Rock star? Olympic team? Loving family? World traveler? Money? Maybe as a child you didn’t have many dreams or you were conditioned to believe dreams and self-determination were for other people…

Dreams

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My Dream For My Life
My Dream For My Life
Dreams

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Sep 13

Protecting Myself

How would I know I deserve protection if I wasn’t protected? How would I know I need to protect my children from emotional hurt if I wasn’t protected as a child? Does my body know I can count on protection from parents and teachers if they have not protected me…

Protection

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Protecting Myself
Protecting Myself
Protection

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Sep 6

Courage and Protection

Emotional courage refers to the ability to face and manage one’s emotions, especially in difficult or challenging situations, with resilience and authenticity. We have all experienced feeling and acting with courage We have all experienced backing down or being disappointed in ourselves What gets in the way of being more consistently courageous? Neuroception: past experience leads us to believe we…

Confidence

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Courage and Protection
Courage and Protection
Confidence

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Aug 30

Courage

“Courage is to speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.” Brené Brown I can take the risk to fully know myself and let myself be known by others, to live with vulnerability and authenticity, and to speak up and “tell all of my heart”. What is your response to…

Courage

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Courage
Courage
Courage

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Aug 23

Emotional Regulation in Community

There are many reasons why we are drawn to this work of healing trauma. It often starts with wanting to ease suffering. Life could be less stressful and we want to enjoy more peace and stability. We live in cultures that are aggressive and challenging, leading many people to feel…

Trauma

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Emotional Regulation in Community
Emotional Regulation in Community
Trauma

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Aug 15

Low Vigilance Relationships

Let’s look at some of the factors that influence the level of vigilance in our relationships. We trust them and they are reliably (not perfectly) well-regulated. We don’t feel dread when we think about them or prepare to see them. It feels safe enough to be ourselves with an expectation…

Vigilance

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Low Vigilance Relationships
Low Vigilance Relationships
Vigilance

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Aug 9

Parentified Child

We learn to read our parents because our survival depends on it. We all need to know we are part of a family and community that will help to protect us and keep us safe. Children are vulnerable and experience emotional misattunement as a survival level threat. …

Parentified

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Parentified Child
Parentified Child
Parentified

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Aug 2

Survival Responses and Boundaries

In a healthy relationship, both people act like adults. They take equal responsibility for their emotional reactions, and talk things out rather than acting things out. The reality of both individuals is equally honored. It is a form of emotional abuse to not validate another person’s perception. The extreme form…

No

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Survival Responses and Boundaries
Survival Responses and Boundaries
No

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Jul 26

Welcoming All Of Ourselves

Looking at our culture, it is easy to see the layers of complexity and experience that make it difficult for us to have a warm-hearted connected relationship with ourselves. We have done some things well, like developing technology. …

Connection

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Welcoming All Of Ourselves
Welcoming All Of Ourselves
Connection

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Jul 19

Where Do You Have Agency?

When we are in a survival response of fight/ flight/ freeze/ fawn, we lose our agency. We need to clearly see, feel, and be able to admit to ourselves that we are being diminished and can address it. Somatic mindfulness inquiry, and planning ahead for what we might face, support…

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Where Do You Have Agency?
Where Do You Have Agency?

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Lynn Fraser Stillpoint

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