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Mothers Should Love You “Just Because”

Mother’s Day is a time for reflection, for honoring and celebrating our mothers and mother figures for the love and care they give to us…

4 min read4 days ago

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“Are We There Yet?” 5 Reasons Healing Is About the Journey, Not the Destination

I once thought that recovering from childhood trauma was all about reaching a place of ultimate healing. I had an “are we there yet?”…

3 min readOct 23, 2023

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You Need a New Identity When You Heal

Healing left an empty vacuum which had previously defined who and what I was.

2 min readAug 29, 2023

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Moving Day — the Push-Pull Relationship with My Mother

Moving Day was tough. Everything combined to make that day very painful for me.

3 min readAug 3, 2023

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Call Me Replaceable

When my mother returned after leaving me alone at home for 10 days when I was 13 years old, she was accompanied by two staff volunteers…

2 min readJul 17, 2023

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Healing — From The Inside Looking Out

I didn’t want to heal. I wanted to unblock my creativity. I wanted to be able to write again.

2 min readJun 5, 2023

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Elizabeth Healy

Healing Is Messy

Healing from childhood trauma is messy. It’s not a linear process. So you have to be able to tolerate the internal messiness that arises…

2 min readMay 22, 2023

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Mother’s Day — Let’s Talk About the Dark Side of Mothering

People don’t always talk about the painful side of Mother’s Day where it triggers your traumatic childhood memories. So for me, Mother’s…

4 min readMay 12, 2023

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The Cruelest Move — How My Mother Broke My Heart

When I had to surrender my beloved cat Smokey, the one who’d helped me to mourn my father’s death, it broke my 13-year-old heart.

3 min readMay 1, 2023

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Left Alone at Home Was No Vacation

I hadn’t realized how alone I would feel when my mother left me alone for 10 days so that she could go on a vacation when I was 13 years…

5 min readApr 14, 2023

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Elizabeth Healy

Elizabeth Healy

Elizabeth is a blogger and writer in Toronto. She's blogging to reflect on her challenging childhood experiences and to share the life lessons she's learned.

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