by Pamela Parker-Follick | Sep 8, 2026 | Trauma & the Nervous System
I used to think rest was what happened when the work was done. When everything on the list was checked off. When everyone else was taken care of. When I had accomplished enough to justify stopping. Rest was the reward. The pause between productive things. Something I...
by Pamela Parker-Follick | Sep 7, 2026 | Everyday Reflections
Some of us learned how to give long before we ever learned how to receive. Give your time. Give your energy. Help. Support. Take care of things. Anticipate what other people need. Be dependable. Be the person who figures it out. For many of us, giving feels...
by Pamela Parker-Follick | Sep 6, 2026 | Coming Home to Yourself
Not everything we leave behind was wrong for us. Sometimes it was simply right for a version of us that no longer exists. There are places in our lives where we once felt completely at home. Friendships. Relationships. Communities. Jobs. Roles. Ways of living. Even...
by Pamela Parker-Follick | Sep 5, 2026 | Coming Home to Yourself
Sometimes the most loving thing we can do is stop asking something to be different than it is. I’ve been thinking a lot about acceptance lately. For years, I think I misunderstood what acceptance actually meant. I thought accepting something meant I was okay...
by Pamela Parker-Follick | Sep 4, 2026 | Coming Home to Yourself
I kept waiting to get to the other side before realizing the journey to get there was the thing changing me. I think we have a tendency to look at transformation in hindsight. We see the person who finally set the boundary. The person who left. The person who started...
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