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Hanan Hope and Healing, 1525 s Higley Road #104, Gilbert, AZ (2025)

08/09/2024

Lately I have been reflecting on the things I need to take responsibility for.

As a survivor of complex trauma this has always been a difficult healing task. A task that I often overlook and minimize. But its importance is paramount no matter how much I wish I could do without it.

The truth is there is no healing and maturity if we’re putting our hurt and healing in the hands of others.
If we wait for the person who hurt us to say sorry, to respond in the best possible way, to see and acknowledge our pain, or offer us our unmet needs.

We certainly need other people to help us heal but if we don’t take responsibility for our own hurts and use our agency to seek support we might end up bitter and alone with it.

We might grow in resentment, self-righteousness, and self-pity.

I share this with you, not to shame anyone or myself. We can still hold ourselves with compassion.

This is a trauma response after all. Not a conscious choosing or proof of inadequacy. This response protects us from further shame and guilt AND I know if we want to truly be set free, we have to be willing to grow into responsible adults who have enough humility to admit our part in the continued harm and enough accountability to tend to our own pain.

I remember having a conversation with my bio dad as a young adult and he shared with me the hurt he felt with his dad not being in his life without acknowledging the hurt he had caused me by not being in my life. At the time I felt like a ghost. I was completely unseen by him.

But I recognize now that my bio dad was still living in the trauma. He could only see his own pain. He was still waiting for his dad to take accountability for his actions.

And I know the cycle will only continue, if I wait for him to take accountability for the hurt. If I wait my whole life for him to see me. I will just be a prisoner to the wounding, hurting people in my lack of freedom.

But taking responsibility, doesn’t mean that I don’t grieve this loss, or hold him accountable. Or I don’t set boundaries.

It’s more about empowering myself to be the change and loving myself well- and this is incredibly healing friends!

06/28/2024

Happy Feast Day of St. Irenaeus.

I have some exciting news in honor of his feast day!!!!

But first let me tell you about St. Irenaeus because it connects with the exciting news.

St. Irenaeus was an early Church Father and defended the Church against Gnosticism which essentially posited that life is about releasing the soul from the body because our bodies are corrupt.

But, “For Irenaeus, redemption is decidedly not tantamount to the escape of the soul from the body; rather, it is the salvation and perfection of the body.” Bishop
Robert Barron.

Unfortunately Gnosticism didn’t end in the early church but has remained a pervasive ethos and perhaps an unconscious drive in our modern world.

As a Catholic therapist, my hope is to rely on early church Fathers like St. Irenaeus and other spiritual leaders to help people live more integrated and reclaim their inner self, the most authentic self, which includes a reclamation of one’s body.

Which is why starting in August I will be releasing a new coaching program called “Fully Alive” to help people heal, integrate, and become more embodied.

Our bodies and spirits don’t have to be at war with one another. Nor the different inner parts of ourselves.

We don’t have to solely rely on our spirituality or our intellect to survive.

When we can see our whole body as good and essential to our flourishing, human development and sense of self, we become more alive in the process.

So stay updated by subscribing to my newsletter on my website (linked in bio) for the release and consider partaking in this 12-week healing process that will help you become a living woman or man, who reflects Christ - the God man who comes to meet us in body. (In physical body. In the body of the Church. In physical sacraments. In the physical creation of the world.
& in our own bodies- our nervous system, our fight/flight response, our emotions, our 5 senses, imagination, gut/ intuition, etc.)

So that the words of Jesus may be etched in every fiber of our being - body and soul:

“I have come so that you may have life and have it to the fullest” (John 10:10).

St. Irenaeus, pray for us.

06/15/2024

For anyone who has been wounded by their father and could use some prompts to help them process and work through complex emotions, sensations, reactions, and thoughts, this is for you.

Keep in mind if you’re working through a father wound it is normal to feel more distressing symptoms around Father’s Day or other special celebrations.

Remember to yourself permission to feel whatever you feel and bring those feelings to safe people and to God.

It is my sincerest hope that as you work through those distressing symptoms you will also make more space for gratitude, joy, peace, and the healing that will surely come ❤️‍🩹

05/08/2024

I am so grateful for the ways the Lord has worked in me and used my trauma to support those who also hold the painful legacy of trauma.

I have created these posts, wrote my book, and built my private practice grounded in the belief that our trauma doesn’t have the final say.

We are more than our wounds, distressing feelings, those old patterns, negative beliefs, and unhealthy ways we have learned to survive.

As we bring together our minds, bodies and spirits and learn to integrate our faith with the wisdom of our God given bodies and minds, we will heal and become all we have been created to be.

We will learn to love ourselves and others better.

We will experience deep peace and healing.

We will become like a child.

To all my new followers, thank you for being here. Thank you for sharing your stories and your wounded hearts. I pray my space is a safe place for you and brings you closer to your authentic self, closer to authentic relationship with others, and closer to Jesus ❤️

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1525 S Higley Road #104
Gilbert, AZ
85296

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