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Longing

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Person sitting among wildflowers, legs extended, looking down at a single bloom | Blog | CSP
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Grief Therapy for Emotional Neglect: Grieving Parents Who Are Still Alive

Many adults carry grief for the care they never received growing up. This post explores the quiet mourning that can arise when parents remain in our lives but cannot meet us in the ways we needed.
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Adult on a log at the shore, arms around knees, looking out over still water | Blog | CSP
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Grief After the Loss of a Parent: What to Expect, and How to Move Through It

Losing a parent shifts the ground beneath you. This post explores what grief can look and feel like—emotionally, relationally, and in the body—and how steadiness begins to take shape over time.
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Adult seated by a creek in BC interior, hands cupped softly in lap | Blog | CSP
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When Something in You Asks for Focus: A Body-Wise Way of Listening

Sometimes something in you starts asking for attention without giving you words for it. This post is about that quiet edge in the body, why it tends to go unheard, and what it asks of you when you turn toward it slowly with company.
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Adult walking a Pacific Northwest coastal trail at sunset | Blog | CSP
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What Happens When Life Won't Stay the Same: Online Therapy for "Lifequakes"

A life transition is not a project to manage. It is a period of loss and remaking. Online therapy across Canada for what comes up when the old shape of your life will not hold.
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Trans adult in quiet reflection at a beach at sunset in the Pacific Northwest | Blog | CSP
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Work After Coming Out as Trans: What Might Be Shifting, and What Can Help

Work after coming out as trans often shifts in quiet ways. Clients drift, invitations thin, feedback gets strange. Some reflections for what's actually happening, and what might help.
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Worn forest trail opens to a cliff overlooking the ocean, disappearing into low Pacific mist at sunrise | Blog | CSP
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Accompanying Someone Who Is Dying: Notes from a Long Goodbye

A personal reflection on accompanying a parent through a long illness. What presence actually asks of you, what anticipatory grief feels like in the body, and what stays when words stop working.