Tree of Life Clinic

Tree of Life Clinic Psychotherapy - Children and Adults - Psychoanalytical Approach
___________________________________ Psychology, Psychotherapy/ Psicologia, Psicoterapia

🍂The loss of a child is immeasurable, indescribable and unnamable. You can’t even get a denomination for these parents. ...
15/10/2025

🍂The loss of a child is immeasurable, indescribable and unnamable. You can’t even get a denomination for these parents. Children who lose parents are orphans, spouses become widowed, but for the extent of this loss there is no name. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🍂Bereaved parents belong to mutilating discontinuity, frustrated projections, to finite dreams, belong to the anguish of loss that is eternalized and generated in the long march of the days.
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🍂Referring to the words of Alexandre Coimbra Amaral: “The days of a bereaved mother and father interweave a new story that needs to happen like a bud. One day, another day, and another day. There are no guarantees, there is no linearity. Life becomes an unpredictable flow of homesickness and reconstruction. There are days when it is possible to put new bricks in the story that still appears as a sketch. In others, it is urgent to go back to nostalgia, to photos, to tears. Dancing between one moment and another is the possible path for parents who have lost their child”
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🍂This loss is like an always visible scar that, over time, may bleed less, but will always be sensitive and painful.
Grief is unique, singular and individual, everyone experiences it in their own way. Respect, welcoming gestures and sensitivity becomes necessary and belongs to parents who have lost their children.
Finding meaning for the loss is critical to surviving it.
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🍂The social stigma of not talking about influences this grieving process. It is necessary to respect the time of withdrawal of bereaved parents and welcome their pain, but they also need closeness, authorization to suffer, loving listen and talk to exhaustion about their children. ⠀⠀⠀⠀
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🍂“There is no greater agony than enduring an untold story inside you“ Maya Angelou

🍂Bereaved parents belong where possible. Sometimes in the lap of a hug, in a welcoming outburst, perhaps in tears or in silence, until it becomes possible for new chapters to be written! 🍂⠀⠀⠀

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Caroene Santos Murray
Clinical Psychologist - Children and adults 🌿
Perinatal and Parental Psychologist 🌿

🌱Feliz dia daqueles que são, feliz dia daqueles que já fomos e feliz dia daqueles que nos ensinam a resgatar um pouqui...
12/10/2025

🌱Feliz dia daqueles que são, feliz dia daqueles que já fomos e feliz dia daqueles que nos ensinam a resgatar um pouquinho por dia daqueles que precisamos ser !!!

👶🏻Ah crianças .... ah a infância... ah esse lugar atemporal onde tudo se torna tudo!!!

👧🏾A Infância é uma espécie de tubo de ensaio feito com papelão imaginário para as fases de vida subsequentes.
Na infância tudo acontece e mais um pouco, experimentos, desenvolvimentos, treinamentos e vai por assim se formando esse tecer de recursos essenciais ao longo da vida.

Aqui nesse paraíso perdido aprende-se a resolver problemas, toma-se contato com as emoções e aprendem-se formas de as gerir, experimentam-se diferentes papéis e treina-se a empatia, fazem-se aprendizagens sobre como funciona o mundo de forma progressivamente mais complexa, papelões viram castelos e está aí um mundo dentro de um mundo onde as experiências da vida pequenina e estratégias de ajustamento vão moldando formas de ser, formas de estar, formas de sentir e isso tem por si só um valor único!

🧒🏻 A infância é esse lugar em que uma caixa velha, d***x e um monte de penduricalhos se transformam num carro turbinado de cabine dupla. E a adultez é essa época em que a gente tem a oportunidade de aprender com estes pequenos infantes a arte de transformar o pouco em muito, o normal em extraordinário, o tédio em criatividade. E, finalmente, fazer dos nossos corações a morada definitiva do encantamento. 🌱

“Tudo é mistério nesse reino que o homem começa a desconhecer desde que o começa a abandonar”
Cecília Meireles “

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Caroene Santos Murray
Psicóloga Clínica - Infantil e adulto 🌿
Psicóloga Perinatal e Parental🌿

Mourning is for those who feel it, it is unique, individual and most of the time, indescribable words. Mourning is the d...
06/10/2025

Mourning is for those who feel it, it is unique, individual and most of the time, indescribable words. Mourning is the dry leaves of everyday life, a defoliation. The dry leaves are our losses and throughout our existence there are dry leaves.

Each person experiences grief in their own way, right or wrong, words are not compatible with the description of the phases of this process, it has no linearity or duration, the feeling of grief belongs to those who feel it.

Often, in an attempt to give some comfort in this overwhelming moment, we rush to want to somehow stop this suffering, but grief is a process of the soul that needs to be lived and digested when and as possible over time and for that to cry. , suffering and talking are part of the process. We need to talk about and not hide or minimize.

Among the various mournings of a life, there are those that ferociously pierce the hourglass of time and cycles like the loss of a child.
The loss of a child is unbearable, indescribable and nameless. You can’t even get a name for these parents. Children who lose parents are orphans, spouses are widowed, but there is no name for the dimension of this loss.
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Mourning parents belong to mutilating discontinuity, frustrated projections, to finite dreams, belong to the anguish of loss that is eternalized and generated in the long march of days.
Addressing death, specifically, in the matter of mourning experienced by mothers and fathers in perinatal life - due to spontaneous abortion, fetal or neonatal death - is important and necessary since these parents are often neglected to live their pain and talk about .

The finitude of a life and of cycles leads us to put words to the anguish we feel since grief makes a rupture in the world assumed by us. In a pregnancy or with the arrival of a stillborn baby, this rupture pierces any hourglass of the human cycle and the stories already introjected by the new parents.
In mourning, perplexity accompanies us like an uncomfortable shadow at all times.

Caroene Santos Murray
Clinical Psychologist - Child and Adult 🌿
Perinatal and Parental Psychologist 🌿

✨ The power of Support Networks in Motherhood ✨🌿 Support is not only about people, but about everything that gives mothe...
03/10/2025

✨ The power of Support Networks in Motherhood ✨

🌿 Support is not only about people, but about everything that gives mothers a safe and nurturing place — groups, art, books, podcasts, hugs, mindful social media, or even a warm cappuccino on a rainy morning.

🌻 Supporting a mother means listening with care, offering respect, and surrounding her with positive words and healthy exchanges.

🌻 No mother should have to walk this path alone. As the African proverb says: “It takes a village to raise a child.”

🌿 Every mother needs a support network — because true strength is not doing it all alone, but being able to lean on love, care, and community. 💛

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Caroene Santos Murray
Clinical Psychologist - Children and adults 🌿
Perinatal and Parental Psychologist 🌿

✈️ Expatriate motherhood can feel doubly challenging.Many mothers who move — or become mothers abroad — face raising the...
24/09/2025

✈️ Expatriate motherhood can feel doubly challenging.

Many mothers who move — or become mothers abroad — face raising their children with little or no support network. Sometimes the only support is a partner, or a family member who visits once a year, stays for a while, and then leaves again.

Alongside the joys and struggles of welcoming a baby, comes the loneliness of living far from your roots. 💭 That’s when we miss our loved ones the most.

Being a mother far from home means being away from the maternal and cultural references of our own childhood. We long for familiar flavors, festive traditions, the smells and the cultural embrace of “home.” 🍲🎶🌸

Self-care becomes harder when the spotlight feels blurred by absence. Here, the challenge is not only caring — but also allowing yourself to receive care. 💕

In expatriate motherhood, helplessness and isolation are common. Family is far away, language feels unfamiliar, parenting methods differ… Even when support is offered, it can be hard to express pain or needs in another language.

That’s why reinventing yourself and building a sense of belonging in this new land matters. 🌍 It’s easier to receive help when we’re not always swimming against the tide.

There’s no single path, no recipe for what will work for you. But walking together makes the journey lighter.

🤍 Seek support, but release the pressure for perfection.
🤍 Persist, but welcome the calm that learning requires.
🤍 Trust your intuition, but remember: you too are a newcomer. Give yourself time.

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Caroene Santos Murray🌿
Clinical, Perinatal & Parental Psychologist🌿

🌿World Su!c!d£ Prevention Day 🎗️Today  we wish to  spread the message and demonstrate to those in our lives and communit...
10/09/2025

🌿World Su!c!d£ Prevention Day 🎗️

Today we wish to spread the message and demonstrate to those in our lives and communities, that there is hope.

Even though Su!c!d£ is a very complex issue, we should always signal to people who are vulnerable or experiencing Su!c!d*! thoughts, that we care and want to support them. This helps to create a more compassionate society where those who need to, feel more comfortable in coming forward to seek help.
We can all contribute and play our part in creating hope in our society by engaging in the following actions:

🎗️Increasing our awareness
🎗️Reaching in to offer support
🎗️Reaching out to seek support
🎗️Being the light for others and your community
🎗️Knowing where to turn for support and services

Tree of life Clinic

🌱✨ Sábado  vivemos um momento histórico: a 1ª Conferência da Mulher na Irlanda. 💪🏽O evento foi um sucesso — casa cheia, ...
01/09/2025

🌱✨ Sábado vivemos um momento histórico: a 1ª Conferência da Mulher na Irlanda. 💪🏽
O evento foi um sucesso — casa cheia, muitos encontros, trocas e inspiração.

Foi uma honra imensa estar presente ao lado de mulheres tão potentes e generosas, incluindo a incrível , cuja liderança é fonte de força e esperança.

Como Grupo Gestarie, tivemos a oportunidade de levar à conferência um tema que pulsa em nós:
💛 “Raízes em Movimento: a Maternidade na Imigração”

🌿Falamos da maternidade sob diferentes olhares — da psicologia, da fisioterapia pélvica, da nutrição e da Doulagem parto/puerpério — mostrando que maternar em outro país é desafiante, mas também é potência, criatividade e reinvenção.🌿

Entre Brasil e Irlanda, 🇧🇷🇮🇪 entre ausências e presenças, seguimos costurando redes de apoio, bordando pertencimento e criando raízes fortes em novos solos. 🌍🧵🌿

Gratidão profunda a todas que estiveram presentes, ao .irlanda , e às mulheres que, juntas, transformam vulnerabilidade em força coletiva. .ibclc .leandro Sônia …. E muitas !!

💡 Cuidar da mãe é cuidar da criança, da família e do futuro…

Entre ausências e presenças, vamos alinhavando coragem: cada ponto é raiz, cada raiz é futuro. Somos costureiras de mundos, alinhavamos saudade e esperança, criando raízes que sustentam o presente e o futuro de nossos filhos.

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Caroene Santos Murray
Psicóloga Clínica - Infantil e adulto 🌿
Psicóloga Perinatal e Parental🌿

🌍 Ser mãe longe de casa é como parir de novo — só que desta vez, parimos a nós mesmas.Renascemos em um lugar novo, com u...
25/08/2025

🌍 Ser mãe longe de casa é como parir de novo — só que desta vez, parimos a nós mesmas.
Renascemos em um lugar novo, com uma língua que não é a nossa, entre ruas que ainda não guardam nossas memórias.

Às vezes sentimos falta do cheiro da comida da avó, da presença física da mãe, da amiga que entenderia tudo com um olhar.
Falta o colo, o conselho, o cuidado não dito mas imaginado. E então, percebemos: há um buraco.
Um buraco de rede.
De vínculos, de afetos, de pertencimento.

🤍 E é nesse vazio que começa a dança delicada de reconstruir!!
A gente aprende a bordar novas conexões — com outras mães, com vizinhas, com gestos gentis.
Não substitui o que ficou, mas pode sustentar o que somos agora.

🌎A maternidade na imigração tem silêncios difíceis.
Mas também tem encontros potentes.
Porque quando duas mães se olham com verdade — mesmo sem história, mesmo sem raízes em comum —, pode nascer uma rede.
Feita de empatia, de escuta, de pequenas alegrias partilhadas no parque, no mercado, na sala de espera.

🌱 Se você é uma mãe expatriada, saiba:
Você não está sozinha.
Você está bordando um novo lar com as linhas invisíveis do amor, da resiliência e da coragem.

E nós estamos aqui com você.
Um fio de cada vez.
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🌱 Building self-love starts with letting go.It means trading emptiness for acceptance — learning that peace comes when w...
19/08/2025

🌱 Building self-love starts with letting go.
It means trading emptiness for acceptance — learning that peace comes when we embrace, not resist, what is.

So often, we look for solutions outside of ourselves — in places, people, or situations. But real healing begins within.

Self-love can feel difficult because we are not used to inner calm. We confuse the joy of living with the pain of living, chasing pleasure and running from pain — when both can actually guide us toward true change.

To love yourself is to remove the masks and keep only what matters:
✨ self-respect
✨ self-forgiveness
✨ serenity, humility, and gentle strength

This is the recipe that makes self-love possible. 🌱

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🌿She is gestating life…Gestating hope…Gestating herself…She welcomed the spark…Cradled the becoming…Expanded to nest…The...
15/08/2025

🌿She is gestating life…
Gestating hope…
Gestating herself…
She welcomed the spark…
Cradled the becoming…
Expanded to nest…
The spark became creation…
With one breath, she carries within herself her own life, her child’s life, and the cells of future life.
Every pregnant woman takes root…
Every pregnant woman blossoms…
Every pregnant woman radiates…🌿

Happy Pregnant Women’s Day

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🌿Crisis is an invitation for change!Even though everything may change on the outside.With different circumstances.It is ...
12/08/2025

🌿Crisis is an invitation for change!
Even though everything may change on the outside.
With different circumstances.
It is necessary to change on the inside so we don’t repeat conditioning.
That socially acceptable and expected pattern of verbal, moral, physical, and emotional violence.

So… what can I change in myself?
How do I deal with my emotions?
Am I embracing them all or swallowing them?
I know you are doing your best.

When something goes “wrong,” breathe!!!
Try not to fall into guilt. Take RESPONSIBILITY for what you feel and do.
Welcome your pain.

Allow yourself to feel!

Try to imagine where your wounded inner child is inside you, when you did something you didn’t want to with your children. Imagine her and offer her a tight hug. Give that hug to your child when you can. Tell your inner child that everything will be okay. That you will make it together! That we will come out of this better.
It hurts, I know. And I also know that it’s freeing — and YOU CAN DO IT ♥️ we are all together on this journey!

Accepting our vulnerability is our greatest strength! May this moment move you towards new knowledge.

There is the crisis, the difficulties — and let’s evolve 🙏🏽 one day at a time!

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Text by Flávia Pereira - adapted to English

🌿 Naturalize bonds.Simplify gatherings.Take an interest in the other person’s daily life.Cry on shoulders that can hold ...
08/08/2025

🌿 Naturalize bonds.
Simplify gatherings.
Take an interest in the other person’s daily life.

Cry on shoulders that can hold you.
Speak about how we love or how we suffer.
Laugh the kind of laughter that tunes into lightness.

Open a beer or have a coffee as a better way to swallow the moment — since some things are hard to swallow.
Don’t turn into an event what needs to remain casual.

We need more philosophies than we can imagine.
Talking is an act of giving! Dive into those delightful conversations that lift you up and add to your life! 🌿



🌿Naturalizar vínculos.
Simplificar encontros.
Interessar-se pelo cotidiano do outro.

Chorar em ombros possíveis.
Falar de como amamos ou como sofremos.
Rir gargalhadas que sintonizam leveza.

Abrir uma cerveja ou tomar café como uma melhor forma de engolir o momento; já que os sapos engasgam.
Não fazer um evento daquilo que precisa ser casual.

A gente precisa mais de filosofias do que podemos imaginar.
Conversar é uma entrega! Se joguem nas conversas gostosas que te coloquem para cima que acrescentem! 🌿

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Caroene Santos Murray
Clinical Psychologist – Child & Adult 🌿
Perinatal and Parental Psychologist 🌿

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