Sarah Dionne, LICSW

Name: Whole Health Collaborative
Address: US

is a psychotherapist in Massachusetts. She is also in seminary to be ordained as an Interfaith Reverend in 2027.

The Spirit Of The Horse

"I have always loved horses. When I was a child, they were the subject of every drawing I created, every story I wrote.

Yet, because of the trauma I was enduring, I lost the ability to connect with them. I would go riding and feel nothing.

Eventually, my ability to feel love for them faded.

Several months ago, as my daughter began riding lessons, I noticed a connection. I noticed a tenderness rising from a Divine place within.

Soon, I felt a yearning to not begin riding again, but to simply be with them; to attune with their pure, healing energy.

I heard the Spirit of the Horse calling me.

I listened. I followed.

Soon, I was helping out at a stable near my home, rising early in the morning to clean paddocks along side these spiritual beings.

Feathers are a representation of spiritual flight, rising into the ethereal unknown, joining with the central energy, All That Is.

Here in A View of Life, you will see many horses and many feathers as I receive their Divine love along my path to healing"

A Journey Through Complex Trauma

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Signs of complex PTSD in adult women

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Self-care practices for trauma survivors

Finding a trauma-informed therapist near me

Rebuilding trust after trauma

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Changing My Name: Redefining the Self After Childhood Abuse, Neglect, and Decades of Complex Post Traumatic Stress.

A step I am taking to redefine myself as I move beyond childhood abuse, emotional and psychological neglect . Life before ten years old was a fragmented pattern of isolated memories. For decades I did not have coherent timeline from zero to ten. The timeline of my life was only clear and consecutive after I had been enrolled in private school at eleven years old. As I transitioned from homeschool and an isolated life to private school, my body-mind dissociated from those year

Sarah Dionne

14 hours ago3 min read

Complex Trauma Therapy (C-PTSD): Why Not Every Therapist Is Prepared to Treat It

When considering working with a client who has complex trauma, clinicians need to consider if they have the skills to engage in the treatment of C-PTSD. Treating complex trauma is nuanced. It requires extensive training, compassion, and self-awareness. It also calls for a clinician to listen to explicit material, which they must be able to hold and compartmentalize. Here are several considerations every therapist should consider before working with complex trauma. Attachment

Sarah Dionne

Mar 175 min read

The Body-Mind Is Magnificent - Protectors and Dissociation In Complex Childhood Trauma

The Body-Mind is Magnificent. At times, as children, it is the only protector we have— and it is a warrior. It will protect us at all costs. It will split and create dissociative parts, like wolves who band together, intertwined by the sacred bonds of spirit. They will find ways through the darkest nights, they will circle those things we cannot bear, they will keep them from us, cornered— protecting us from what is intolerable. They will give us unexplainable abilities to su

Sarah Dionne

Jan 73 min read

Emotional Neglect— An Invisible And Devastating Childhood Trauma

Emotional neglect is tragicly damaging to a child's development and, alone, can lead to complex post traumatic stress. Anyone outside of our home believed my parents to be attentive, cheerful, and successful people— and they were successful. The rest of it wasn't a show; it was worse than that. They seemed to reserve their thoughtful engagement for other people; a bright energy that was saved for friends, extended family, or co-workers. Yet, when they returned home, there was

Sarah Dionne

Jan 74 min read

An Introduction— Forty Years Of Tears: Healing Complex Childhood Trauma

Healing complex childhood trauma is a long and winding journey. For me, while these brutal young experiences had been effecting every day of my life, true healing only began in my forties. Over the years, its purpose has changed several times. I hadn't been able to settle on a specific theme for my writing and content. Recently I haven't been posting articles to my blog simply because its purpose stopped resonating. It no longer felt aligned. However, recently things changed.

Sarah Dionne

Dec 19, 20255 min read

"I am so glad you are here. We all need a place to land, a place to rebuild the foundations in our souls. I hope within A View of Life you can find relatable challenges and triumphs relate supporting your path to freedom from trauma.

My place to land is within creativity and writing. It feeds my Spirit and expresses what I was never allowed to express as a child.

My journey has taken me decades to sort through, and I continue to today.

Complex Trauma (CPTSD) can destroy us. It can envelop us as we grapple with the emptiness we have been left with.

Yet, we do not need to be annihilated even if they tried to. They do not have to win. We can prevail.

This blog is a vulnerable, open perspective into my healing. I share my world because I have nothing to hide and no one to hide from.

It's my time to sing my Spirit's song. I do this for myself and I do this for you because I have deep compassion for your pain and path forward.

Thank you for being here. Thank you for hearing my voice. Thank you for your bravery. We are not survivors, we are Divine Warriors who will one day settle into peace."

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