How Do Trauma-Informed Endometriosis Communities Help?
After closing the free support group I facilitated for six years, I learned something critical about community dynamics for women with endometriosis. The pattern I witnessed repeatedly, and continue to hear about from women navigating this disease, is one...
Why a Therapist With Lived Experience Helps You Heal
You Deserve a Therapist Who Understands Medical Trauma and Chronic Illness When you are carrying the weight of medical trauma, chronic illness, or a crisis of faith brought on by suffering, it can feel like you are speaking a language that so few truly understand. You...
What Is Dissociation? Medical Trauma & Chronic Pain
Navigating pain and feeling disconnected from your body? Discover how EMDR Therapy for Medical Trauma at Cheerful Heart helps restore the mind-body connection. You know that feeling when someone asks, “How’s your body doing?” and you genuinely have no idea how to...

