Seeking Depth to Recovery

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🗣️ Talk therapy won’t get the job done.

🫀 Trauma recovery happens in the body.

🧘🏻‍♀️ FREE Somatic trauma recovery tools. 👇🏼

✨ www.SeekingDepthToRecovery.com ✨

12/18/2025

When being “cute” was how your body kept you safe.

You didn’t learn to smile, please, or soften because you wanted to—your nervous system learned that care came easier when you were easy to love.

That’s called passive receptive mastery — when your body masters how to elicit care, but not how to receive it.
Healing is remembering you don’t have to perform to be worthy of care.

12/17/2025

In therapeutic role development, we often begin with the observing ego because it offers the most safety.

As we access underdeveloped resilience roles, stress roles naturally activate and seek attention. The observing ego — being more cognitive — allows us to notice what’s happening without intensifying that activation.

Safety first. Depth follows.

12/15/2025

One of the defining features of the observing ego is the ability to notice our lived experience without getting pulled into shame or blame.

When we’re regulated, we can hold the both/and — and receive emotional information without being afraid of the emotion itself.

This is subtle work.
And it’s deeply transformative.

12/11/2025

Learning to notice discomfort without reacting is one of the most important skills we build in therapy.

This is the observing ego — the ability to recognize, “I’m anxious,” “I’m uncomfortable,” or “I’m worried about what this person thinks,” without immediately responding from that place.

Instead of acting on emotion, we gather information:
• emotional data
• somatic sensations
• cognitive thoughts

We observe first, then choose how to move forward.

With practice, this becomes integrated and natural. We don’t have to stop and consciously ask, “What would my observing ego say right now?” It simply shows up.

This is where real change begins.

Meet Laina, a trauma therapist in Henrico, VA who helps folx find healing and meaningful growth through psychodrama, dra...
12/10/2025

Meet Laina, a trauma therapist in Henrico, VA who helps folx find healing and meaningful growth through psychodrama, drama therapy, and narrative approaches.

With strong roots in theatre and the arts, Laina takes a creative, collaborative, and embodied approach to empowering folx, especially with those navigating anxiety, depression, cultural identity, and life transitions.

Laina has inpatient, residential, and personal experience working across the states and overseas.

She would be honored to walk alongside you as you uncover and cultivate the stories that shape you.

Text to schedule: 804-203-2100

Learn more: https://www.seekingdepthtorecovery.com/laina-kenyon-trauma-therapy-richmond-va

12/09/2025

If you’ve ever struggled to explain what you feel — this is why.

Doubling is a psychodrama technique that gives words to the experiences we never had language for.
Some memories stay stuck in the right hemisphere — fragmented, wordless, held in sensations instead of sentences. They never make the journey into the left hemisphere where meaning, story, and language live.

When we double for someone — a child or an adult — we’re helping them integrate those fragments. We’re restoring a sense of self.

This is also the work of the observing ego:
the part of us that can zoom out, witness, and not be overwhelmed by a single experience.

This is where healing begins.

When Mother Nature gives us no choice but to play, we make weird sh*t out of snow. Happy snow day!
12/05/2025

When Mother Nature gives us no choice but to play, we make weird sh*t out of snow. Happy snow day!

12/02/2025

The observing ego is the narrator of your life — the part of you that notices, reflects, and makes meaning out of what you’re experiencing.

What most people don’t realize is that this narrator doesn’t just appear.
It’s shaped early on by how our caregivers “doubled” for us — the way they talked to us, talked about us, and helped (or didn’t help) us understand our own emotions.

If your internal narrator still sounds like someone else… you’re not alone.
And you can absolutely learn to rewrite that voice.

11/20/2025

Sometimes self-neglect and self-abuse convince us that keeping the “door” shut is safer — that if we stay busy, avoid the deeper work, and keep moving, we won’t have to face what’s going on internally.

But all that does is feed the chaos behind the door.

And when you finally open it… it’s loud, messy, uncomfortable, and overwhelming.
Yet that moment — the moment you look inside — is where healing actually begins.

Because clarity gives you choice.
Compassion gives you softness.
Awareness gives you power.

If you’re ready to unpack your patterns with support, our therapists are here to help.

SeekingDepthToRecovery.com

11/19/2025

When we begin to truly tune in to our nervous system and our experiences, it can feel like everything is louder or worse — but it’s not.

I like to give this example: imagine a preschool classroom behind a closed door. You hear muffled commotion and maybe some screams. You open the door just a crack, and suddenly the noise seems louder. It’s not worse — you’re just hearing it more clearly.

This is exactly what happens in trauma recovery: noticing your feelings clearly is the first step toward understanding, integration, and healing.

Learn more at seekingdepthtorecovery.com

11/17/2025

the triangle of self-integration teaches us about our three resilience roles:
✨ playful ego — the part that remembers joy, creativity, and curiosity
🌿 nurturing ego — the part that can offer compassion and safety
👁️ observing ego — the part that can witness without reacting

when these come online, we stop living in survival mode and start becoming the narrator of our own life again.

learn more or begin your healing journey at seekingdepthtorecovery.com

This time last year, I lost my dad tragically to a prion disease, CJD. I was fortunate to be immersed in community and s...
11/15/2025

This time last year, I lost my dad tragically to a prion disease, CJD.

I was fortunate to be immersed in community and social supports, but this year hits differently, as my brain’s analgesia wears off.

I am finding that I’m sensitive to the cold and the dark.

Last week, my favorite people planned a nature hike, which spontaneously led to a color scavenger hunt and some questionable, but enjoyable, leaf art.

I could viscerally feel my rest and digest nervous system strengthening.

What are you doing to support your nervous system?

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