Journey Counseling, LLC

02/10/2026

02/10/2026

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🌿 A highly sensitive child is deeply tuned in — to their environment, to other people’s emotions, and to the subtle details many of us overlook. About 1 in 5 children are wired this way.

💛 They experience the world intensely. Joy feels big. Sadness feels deep. Empathy comes naturally. But that same sensitivity can mean loud noises, bright lights, busy classrooms, or abrupt transitions feel overwhelming.

🧠 These children are often thoughtful and reflective. They ask big, meaningful questions. They notice shifts in tone. They engage in rich imaginative play. While criticism, chaos, or overstimulation can hit them harder, they also tend to be incredibly compassionate, perceptive, and conscientious.

🌱 Highly sensitive children don’t need to be “toughened up.” They thrive in environments that are calm, predictable, and emotionally safe — where their sensitivity is understood as a strength, not a flaw.

02/10/2026

We often expect healing to be a straight line toward relief. But in really it often begins with a breaking.

When your trauma first happened, your body did what it had to do to keep you alive. It shut down, numbed out, stored the pain away. It didn't have the capacity to feel it all back then.

In healing, that capacity starts to grow. And suddenly, the grief, rage, and longing that were locked away start to move through you. This can feel like falling apart but it's actually your nervous system doing what it couldn't do before: processing what's authentic without collapsing.

Messy doesn't mean wrong. Overwhelming doesn't mean you're going backwards. It often means your body has now more capacity to hold what was once unholdable.
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If you're in this part of your healing right now, where the old patterns are cracking and the feelings are raw, you don't have to walk through it alone.

We invite you to connect with our community of co-survivors who are learning to safely reconnect with themselves, rebuild self-worth, and learning to form healthy, nurturing relationships. Your journey toward healing and wholeness begins here. Join us today and embrace the support you truly deserve.

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02/06/2026

Robert 💙

02/03/2026

“When emotionally abandoned people describe their childhoods, it is always without feeling… they recount their earliest memories without any sympathy for the child they once were.

"Very often they show disdain and irony, even derision and cynicism. In general, there is a complete absence of real emotional understanding or serious appreciation of their own childhood vicissitudes and no conception of their true need—beyond the need for achievement.

"The internalization of the original drama has been so complete that the illusion of a good childhood can be maintained.” – John Bradshaw

01/29/2026

Sometimes, being the one who's hurt feels more shameful than being the one who did the hurting. You didn't cause the harm - you experienced it — and yet somehow, you're the one left feeling less than.

Because when someone treats you like you don't matter, even when their behavior is inexcusable, you start to wonder if maybe they're right.

The work is handing the shame back to its rightful owner. Don't let their unhealed parts convince you that you're broken. That shame was never yours to begin with. - Zoë Crook