Musings

Many types of therapy aim to help people after traumatic experiences try to stabilize, emotionally regulate, ground, and find “safety”. The premise of these methods is that the person has been harmed, and they and everyone around them should try at all costs to avoid making them feel upset or harmed again in the future.…

What does it mean to be a broken toy? One of the ways we talk about the role of the playor, aka the DvT practitioner, is as a broken toy, beloved but beat up by the world, like the velveteen rabbit. We are all a bit broken, our attachments challenged by our family dynamics, our…