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Ask A Therapist: Ada Rock 🇨🇦🌈♾️🌈 💙 she/they @adarock.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Coercive Control vs. Healthy Attachment: Coercive control is one of the most hidden yet devastating forms of abuse. It often doesn’t start with shouting or physical harm — it begins quietly, disguised as love, protection, or “just caring.” diversepathswellness.com/coercive-con...

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Ask A Therapist: Ada Rock 🇨🇦🌈♾️🌈 💙 she/they @adarock.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

You are not difficult for needing respect. You are human. diversepathswellness.com

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Ask A Therapist: Ada Rock 🇨🇦🌈♾️🌈 💙 she/they @adarock.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

"Confusion is a tactic. When you feel foggy, slow down - not to agree, but to see clearly." diversepathswellness.com

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Ask A Therapist: Ada Rock 🇨🇦🌈♾️🌈 💙 she/they @adarock.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

These fascist actions look like today’s version of tactics like giving out diseased blankets and killing the buffalo used to oppress, kill and assimilate Indigenous Peoples. Picture of bison skulls taken in 1892 in Rougeville, Michigan. Burton Historical Collection at the Detroit Public Library

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Ask A Therapist: Ada Rock 🇨🇦🌈♾️🌈 💙 she/they @adarock.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Her eyes looked like this and she seemed to stare into my soul, three feet from me. First time in my life to have a visit from an owl.

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Ask A Therapist: Ada Rock 🇨🇦🌈♾️🌈 💙 she/they @adarock.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

@lakotaman.bsky.social I’m Autumn 🍂 🇨🇦 Métis This one visited me night before last, do you know what her medicine is? She was so stunning and so close, she stared at me with the most profound calm, it was as though she was saying, “it’s okay to be still, the right time will come.”

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Ask A Therapist: Ada Rock 🇨🇦🌈♾️🌈 💙 she/they @adarock.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Promote Grounded Decision Making Somatic techniques help individuals feel more present, reducing dissociation and feelings of detachment and confusion often associated with trauma. This increases grounded decision-making abilities. diversepathswellness.com/diverse-path...

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Ask A Therapist: Ada Rock 🇨🇦🌈♾️🌈 💙 she/they @adarock.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Strengthen Mind-Body Connection Feel disconnected from your body due to trauma, stress, or just life? Somatic therapy & embodiment help foster a harmonious relationship between thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations and holistic healing. diversepathswellness.com/diverse-path...

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Ask A Therapist: Ada Rock 🇨🇦🌈♾️🌈 💙 she/they @adarock.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Improve Self-Awareness Tuning into bodily sensations and emotional responses can help us develop a deeper internal understanding. This heightened self-awareness aids in identifying triggers, patterns, and behaviours, contributing to greater overall agency. diversepathswellness.com/diverse-path...

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Ask A Therapist: Ada Rock 🇨🇦🌈♾️🌈 💙 she/they @adarock.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Narcissistic or toxic family systems can create harmful dynamics. When one person is scapegoated within that system, it can lead to profound emotional trauma, leaving that person to grapple with low self-esteem, identity confusion, and relational challenges. diversepathswellness.com/diverse-path...

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Ask A Therapist: Ada Rock 🇨🇦🌈♾️🌈 💙 she/they @adarock.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Strengthen Mind-Body Connection Trauma and stress can leave us feeling disconnected from our bodies. Somatic therapy and practice encourage holistic healing by fostering a harmonious relationship between thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations. diversepathswellness.com/diverse-path...

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Ask A Therapist: Ada Rock 🇨🇦🌈♾️🌈 💙 she/they @adarock.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

We are all tempted to defend ourselves before we place a boundary. No need to defend, “because I don’t want that for myself anymore,” is reason enough. diversepathswellness.com

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Ask A Therapist: Ada Rock 🇨🇦🌈♾️🌈 💙 she/they @adarock.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Facilitate Mind-Body Awareness By encouraging mindfulness and bodily awareness, somatic therapy helps individuals recognize how trauma and stored stress manifests physically, fostering understanding and expanding agency. diversepathswellness.com

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Ask A Therapist: Ada Rock 🇨🇦🌈♾️🌈 💙 she/they @adarock.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Build Resilience after Trauma: Regular somatic practices strengthen the body's ability to return to a state of balance after stress, enhancing overall resilience to trauma triggers. diversepathswellness.com

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Ask A Therapist: Ada Rock 🇨🇦🌈♾️🌈 💙 she/they @adarock.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Reduce Stress and Anxiety Somatic therapy incorporates mindfulness and breathing techniques, which are proven to activate the parasympathetic nervous system—which is responsible for relaxation. This alleviates symptoms of anxiety by fostering a sense of calm and balance. diversepathswellness.com

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Ask A Therapist: Ada Rock 🇨🇦🌈♾️🌈 💙 she/they @adarock.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Release Trauma Stored in the Body The body often holds onto trauma and stress, manifesting as tension, anxiety, chronic pain, or emotional flooding/blockages. Somatic therapy helps identify and release these. We can hold better space for ourselves and each other through conscious awareness.

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