by Maggi Colwell | Mar 17, 2025 | Addiction, Anxiety, Depression, financial therapy, Therapy, trauma
What is money stress? This post is about why money stress isn’t just about your budget–it’s about your emotions. I know, emotions aren’t necessarily fun, but we gotta go there. Do you ever feel a knot in your stomach when you check your...
by Maggi Colwell | Jan 10, 2025 | Anxiety, Art Therapy, trauma, Uncategorized
Many think trauma therapy is just talking about painful past events until the memories lose their sting. But that’s a misconception. Trauma therapy isn’t about rehashing the past. It’s about creating the safety to build capacity for healing trauma...
by Maggi Colwell | Mar 20, 2024 | Therapy, trauma
In my work of trauma-informed art therapy and depth therapy, I have found that a lot of the people I work with are survivors. Things were complicated growing up. Another term currently being used are adverse childhood experiences or ACE’s. They were smart, they...
by Maggi Colwell | Mar 7, 2024 | Depth Psychology, Therapy, trauma
I think about containment all the time. It is one of the things lacking in most community mental health right now. AI or cookie-cutter therapy can’t provide containment because that system lacks it by design. So, today I want to explore trauma treatment in...
by Maggi Colwell | Feb 26, 2024 | Depth Psychology, shadow work, trauma
I want to talk about shadow and shadow work today. This topic is something that I keep bringing up in the last couple of weeks, maybe the last couple of months. And it is a concept that has gotten a lot of popularity, including viral attention recently. Furthermore,...
by Maggi Colwell | Jan 22, 2024 | Anxiety, self care, self-care, Therapy, trauma
Embodiment: A Journey to Presence In her book, Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living, Shauna Niequist talks about how, when she started her journey of presence and more stillness, she was good at maximizing productivity...
