Formosa Wellness - Lisa King, LPC

03/12/2026

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03/10/2026

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03/09/2026

Keep it together Monday!

02/25/2026

Yes! This!

Harm reduction is as useful and life saving in trauma recovery as it is in addiction recovery.

02/20/2026

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You can leave a toxic church
and still carry it on your back.

Religious trauma is not just “church hurt.” It happens when faith gets fused with fear, control, shame, or abuse and your nervous system learns that God or authority are not safe.

It can come from spiritual abuse, clergy misconduct, fear-based theology, or being silenced and shamed for asking questions.

You can move.
You can deconstruct.
You can stop attending.

And your body can still remember.

It shows up as anxiety during worship music, guilt for setting boundaries, fear of disappointing God, hypervigilance around authority, and shame that will not turn off.

It is not weakness.
It is not rebellion.
It is trauma.

Trauma does not disappear just because you uproot yourself. Healing is possible. But pretending it did not happen will not set you free.

If you are learning to put the weight down, you are not alone.

Share this with someone who is still carrying it.

02/19/2026

𝗧𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱, 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗼𝘂𝗯𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳.

You explain.
They twist your words.
You express hurt.
They accuse you of attacking.

The louder they get, the smaller you feel.

But communication with someone who has strong narcissistic tendencies isn’t about winning the argument.

It’s about protecting your clarity and holding firm boundaries.

When you shift how you speak, their usual tactics lose power.

In my latest article, I share 10 strategies that help you communicate clearly without getting pulled into the chaos.

The link is in the comments.

02/19/2026

Lol

02/09/2026

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There’s a quiet truth we rarely talk about —
healing doesn’t mean erasing what hurt 🌾

We don’t wake up one day untouched.
We don’t return to who we were before.
We carry what we lost with us,
not as a weight,
but as a presence.

Grief doesn’t ask to be rushed.
It doesn’t respond to timelines or expectations.
It settles in slowly,
teaching us how to walk with it,
step by step 🚶‍♂️🤍

Some days it’s loud.
Other days it’s barely a whisper.
But it’s always there,
woven into the way we see the world now.

Moving forward isn’t betrayal.
Remembering isn’t weakness.
It’s proof that love mattered —
that something meaningful once existed 🌼

Loss changes us,
but so does love.
They shape us in similar ways:
softening certain edges,
deepening others,
teaching us empathy we didn’t know we needed.

There is no “normal” to return to.
Only a new version of life
that includes what came before
and what remains now 🌿

We learn how to smile again,
even while missing someone.
We learn how to keep going,
even when part of us is still looking back.

And somehow,
both things can be true at the same time.

Walking forward doesn’t mean leaving anyone behind.
It means allowing their impact
to live on inside us —
in the way we love,
in the way we listen,
in the way we hold space for others 🤍

This path may look different than we imagined.
Quieter.
Slower.
More reflective.

But it’s still a path.
And you’re still moving.

Not away from what mattered —
but with it,
carried gently,
every step of the way ✨

02/09/2026

I can’t help but think how exhausting it must be for people to always be pointing out, judging and disapproving of everything everyone else is doing.

02/07/2026

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Religious trauma doesn’t just live in your beliefs.
It lives in your body.

When fear is preached as faith, when control is framed as love, when God is used as a weapon, your nervous system learns to stay on high alert. That’s the vagus nerve doing exactly what it was designed to do: protect you.

Hypervigilance. Shutdown. Anxiety. Dissociation.
These aren’t spiritual failures. They’re biological responses to chronic threat.

This is why you can leave a harmful theology and still feel unsafe.
Your body remembers what your mind was taught to survive.

Healing religious trauma isn’t just about changing beliefs.
It’s about helping the nervous system learn safety again.

If this resonates, you’re not broken.
You adapted.

02/06/2026

Certainty can be dangerous.

02/05/2026

Anyone else relate?