Sacred Growth, LLC

11/20/2025

Understanding the Trauma Tree – Why Addressing Symptoms Alone Isn’t Enough 🌳

“We can take off the leaves, but the tree keeps growing until we get to the root.”

This powerful metaphor reveals why so many people struggle with recurring mental health symptoms. Research shows that 70% of individuals experience trauma, and tackling only surface-level symptoms leads to temporary relief—not true healing.

The Leaves – How Trauma Manifests:
– Hypervigilance and anxiety
– Flashbacks and nightmares
– Panic attacks and dissociation
– Depression and emotional numbing
– Substance abuse and insomnia

What Feeds the Tree – Barriers to Healing:
– Stigma and labelling
– Lack of trauma-informed treatment
– Misdiagnosis and limited support

The Roots – Original Trauma:
– Childhood abuse and neglect
– Accidents and medical trauma
– War – terrorism – violence
– Natural disasters and grief
– Systemic oppression and discrimination

Evidence shows trauma-informed interventions address both the symptoms and the root causes, leading to real recovery and improved wellbeing for those struggling with PTSD, anxiety, and depression.

11/19/2025

11/19/2025

I love my life especially with kids & mindfulness ☮️in it! 🪷💗☀️🥰

11/13/2025

Kind reminder…🪷💗

11/12/2025

Another great read! 🧠📚👌

11/12/2025

Great read! 📚

11/08/2025

Your Stress Bucket Is Full (And That’s Not Your Fault)

The Stress Bucket Theory:

Imagine your nervous system as a bucket. Throughout your day, stressors pour in—relationship tension, work anxiety, health concerns, deadlines, and the invisible weight of just existing in today’s world. Each drop fills the bucket higher.

The problem? Most people are told to just “deal with it” or “manage better” while their bucket overflows. They’re blamed for the overflow instead of supported in emptying it.

What Your Bucket Truly Holds:

↳ The stressors pouring in — Relationship stress, work anxiety, health issues, school/uni pressure, deadlines, and countless daily demands.

↳ The “normal” zone — Where you’re functioning but carrying tension. Your bucket is full, but not overflowing... yet.

↳ The relaxation zone — Where your bucket drains through evidence-based practices.

How Your Bucket Actually Empties:

You can’t stop stressors from coming. But you can drain what’s already there. This is where real relief begins.

↳ Breathwork — Activates your parasympathetic nervous system, telling your body it’s safe to relax.

↳ Rest and time management — Non-negotiable. Your nervous system needs recovery.

↳ Enjoyable activities and music — These aren’t luxuries; they’re physiological medicine.

↳ Friends, family, and connection — Social support actively reduces stress hormones.

↳ Exercise and self-care — Movement and care rebuild your resilience.

The Hard Truth:

Your stress bucket won’t empty itself. It requires conscious, consistent effort to pour out what’s accumulated. And most importantly, you deserve support—not judgment—while doing this work.

11/08/2025

Parts and memory therapy holds the assumption that some of our emotional responses to things are learned. If we can go back to these moments and take the emotions out of the memory our present emotional response isn’t as loud.

This is helpful for things like depression, anxiety, and incredibly helpful for things like PTSD. PMT also assumes that the self is not unitary, that we are comprised of different parts. It can be an inner child, it could be your depressed part, sad part, or angry part. If you want to reduce reactivity, the therapist will find that part of your personality and with that part of your personality, go back to emotions that contribute to that overall emotional response.

For example

If you had an argument 100 times, the first time you have that argument you’re going to feel a lot of emotion. All the times after that it is more of “not this again!” All the past feelings come up and amplifies that present experience. If all of those feelings have been neutralized, then it’s like engaging in this argument for the first time emotionally. Cognitively you might remember everything, but there will not be the same emotional response as there was previously.

There’s a misconception that it has to be weeks, months, or years. That it’s a long process, although it can be particularly if there’s a lot of moments of trauma. But also, there’s this approach of memory reconsolidation and taking advantage of that through parts of memory therapy, where something that was an 8 out of 10 or would contribute to panic attacks is now like a history book.

Something that happened before but is now void of emotion.

This can be done in one session; however, it takes a little bit to get to that place therapists don’t generally start the first session there. PMT can be done quickly, and multiple memories can be done in one session.

EMDR is something that’s similar in the sense that it takes advantage of memory reconsolidation, but it has a different mechanism of change. EMDR doesn’t share the assumption that the self is not unitary, it does not assume that we have different parts to our personality.

11/05/2025

Another great read! ✨

10/29/2025

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10/28/2025

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