Radhe Lesny Trauma Healing Therapy

07/23/2025

My daughter Annie just passed her LPCC exam. She’s now a licensed psychotherapist. I couldn’t be a prouder Mama.

07/14/2025

Nothing is better than a National Park with my Annie. Lassen NP did the trick this go around.

07/13/2025

So beautifully true.

🙏🙏🙏

07/12/2025

So important to find this safety in our bodies with another person to heal from trauma. The ruptures that create the lack of embodied safety happen in relationship so they need safe embodied relationship to heal.
In the best therapy we are offering this safe haven to our clients so they can finally come home to themselves.
So they can finally rest their bodies.

07/11/2025

Great news for those of us finding gratitude visiting more frequently at our doorstep.
One thing I’ve noticed as I make more room for all of my feelings and sensations is that gratitude has become a natural byproduct.
So grateful for gratitude.

Gratitude, far from being a sentimental notion, has emerged as a scientifically supported force capable of transforming the human brain and improving overall mental health. Neuroscientific studies have shown that regularly practicing gratitude activates brain regions associated with moral cognition, emotional regulation, and reward, particularly the medial prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex (Zahn et al., 2009). Notably, Dr. Alex Korb, in his book The Upward Spiral, describes how gratitude stimulates the release of dopamine and serotonin—two neurotransmitters vital for mood stabilization and happiness—making it a powerful natural antidepressant. A growing body of evidence confirms that this effect is not fleeting: a study by the University of California, Berkeley, led by Joel Wong and Joshua Brown (2017), found that individuals who wrote gratitude letters showed significantly better mental health outcomes even 12 weeks after the exercise, regardless of whether the letters were sent. In parallel, Emmons and McCullough (2003) demonstrated that individuals who kept a gratitude journal for just 10 weeks reported increased optimism, better sleep, and more physical activity. Furthermore, gratitude has been shown to enhance the neural modulation of the prefrontal cortex, which reduces symptoms of depression and anxiety by strengthening pathways that suppress negative emotions. According to McCraty & Childre (2004), gratitude also reduces cortisol levels—the primary stress hormone—improving cardiovascular health and emotional resilience. At the structural level, researchers like Zahn et al. (2014) have found that individuals who frequently feel gratitude show increased gray matter volume in the right inferior temporal gyrus, which plays a key role in interpreting social signals and emotional meaning. As UCLA’s Mindfulness Awareness Research Center puts it, “Gratitude changes the neural structures of the brain,” reshaping how we perceive and engage with the world. Ultimately, gratitude doesn't just feel good—it rewires the brain toward greater emotional intelligence, social connection, and resilience, offering a neuropsychological foundation for a healthier and more fulfilling life.

06/30/2025

YES

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06/20/2025

YES

So often in therapy, we think our job is to find the right answer. But healing isn’t about getting it “right” – it’s about creating the conditions for curiosity. When we invite the nervous system into a state of wonder rather than fear or certainty, we open the door to real change. That tiny pause – the “Oh…” moment – is where integration begins.

06/20/2025

WOW

Everything is breaking.
Breaking down.
Breaking open, breaking apart at the seams.
Not that you need a newsflash—but,
we are past the brink
of the Great Breaking.

The Great Breaking is full of terror.
Discomfort. Annihilation.
And—
the Great Breaking is full of emergence.
Emerging. Becoming. Beauty.

The most rigid of us
will have the hardest reckoning days.
Perhaps that’s why the ossified kings
are blowing up the world.
Terrified to break on the inside,
their terror moves through them
wild and unconscious—
like rams at war.

Inside the egg
is mystery,
darkness,
uncertainty.
birth takes time.
And it’s not tidy.
It’s raw, messy and marvelous.

Internally, much must break down
to make space for the new:
for conception,
for the slow, aching process
of gestating a new baby,
a new story.

There will be crying inside the egg.
Raging.
against the false machine
that lives inside.
The old structures must fracture
for the real story to come through.

We are waking,
many of us,
layer by layer,
within the belly of the Great Breaking—
cracking open
again and again,
watching the old world burn
as we stand on the edge of the new.

Protect yourself, beloved,
in these vulnerable times.
Surround yourself with beauty.
Eat beauty. Drink beauty.
Sing beauty.
Story beauty.
Make beauty with your hands,
with your heart,
with your mind.
What you focus on expands.

Thread your inner parts
with a golden beauty web.
Bring beauty to a neighbor.
Sing it with friends.
Pray beauty—
even for the faux.
Even for the foe.

Pray that the great river of remembering
washes over those
who have forgotten the most.

We are in a time of suffering.
And we are in a time of beauty.
Transformation is an intense affair.
you were made for these times.
Keep re-membering.

Words: Stasha Ginsburg
The wild remembering

Art: unknown

06/08/2025

So true and important to understand

Sometimes the feelings that seem “too big” or “out of proportion” are actually just old emotions finally getting airtime.

Not because you’re broken or dramatic. But because for the first time, you’re safe enough to feel what you couldn’t feel before.

This is one of trauma’s quiet contradictions: Healing doesn’t always feel calm. Sometimes it looks messy. Emotional. Overwhelming. But that doesn’t mean you’re going backward. It might mean your system is finally catching up.

So if a part of you is showing up with big emotion, try not to shame it or shut it down. Get curious. Ask what it didn’t get to say back then.

When you stop calling it ‘too much,’ that part finally feels seen rather than silenced. And that changes everything.

03/22/2025

That’s for sure

02/13/2025

"The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them.
How much sorrow can I hold? That’s how much gratitude I can give. If I carry only grief, I’ll bend toward cynicism and despair.
If I have only gratitude, I’ll become saccharine and won’t develop much compassion for other people’s suffering.
Grief keeps the heart fluid and soft, which helps make compassion possible."

~Francis Weller

Art- Catrin Welz-Stein

02/09/2025

YES

Find out what makes you kinder, what opens you up and brings out the most loving, generous, and unafraid version of you, and go after those things as if nothing else matters.
~George Saunders