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✔️ Nightmares. ✔️ Avoidance of people & p

✔️ Nightmares.
✔️ Avoidance of people & places that brought back the memories.
✔️ A deep, deep wound in my self-belief.
✔️ Periods of unrelenting anxiety and then depressive moods that I couldn’t shake.
✔️ Thoughts & memories that would pop up & then completely derail my mood, and sometimes my plans for the day.
✔️ Fear of when the next memory or unconscious trigger would happen. And how it would have me in its grip for at least a day.
✔️ Extreme exaggeration of what I thought I did to cause my trauma.

And finally - after years of trauma that I had no idea how to integrate - ✔️ chronic disease. ⚡️

This is what trauma did to me. Trauma doesn’t care about your dreams 💔. Your social status. Your income. Your life plans 💔. When it happens - it rocks each of us to our core & when we don’t have the resources / tools / knowledge / support to integrate it - it can be pretty relentless. Heartbreakingly painful (I was convinced I would die from it). And very, very often result in dis-ease.

Tomorrow the 8 week @returntopresence 🌱 program will be running for the third time. It is completely free & online - to ensure the accessibility that I & many others struggle with, in accessing support for psychological trauma. And I am yet again so honored to be (gently) guiding 100+ special souls into the first steps of their trauma integration & the finding of small windows of release. 💗

I’m spending dedicated time in prayer tonight to prepare my heart for them. Jesus knows exactly what they each need & I’ll gladly be that vessel.

See you tomorrow special, special peeps 💗

#heartwork #thankyouJesus #byhisgraceigo

💕 5 things you may never have guessed about me!

💕 5 things you may never have guessed about me! 💕

🤰🏼I thought for the longest time I might not ever have children. Out of choice. The sacrifices & need to be all-present were all I could see. My life felt bigger. I wasn’t sure when or IF I would ever feel different. I believe God is changing that. We shall see 🥰

🍃 My undergraduate degree is in Child Psychology, and I can’t tell you how often I use that degree in understanding my therapy clients 💕 We all have a story, and our story of childhood shapes us in the most powerful ways. Especially when healing has yet to occur.

🚙 In 2006 my car was washed off a bridge with me in it. This kicked off a year of multiple traumatic events (including an armed robbery in my driveway) that resulted in really awful post-traumatic stress. It took me a good decade to heal from this. 💗

✝️ I was dedicated as a toddler & the pastor spoke prophetically over my life. He said that I would “be a voice for the voiceless, and use (her) hands to bring healing to many women & children.” I’m still not entirely sure what this means or what it will look like when God brings this to fullness in my life. He is slowllllly unraveling it for me 💕 He recently told me “it is written in heaven. It is done.” 💗

🇮🇳 I have a connection to several foreign lands. Places I believe God has intentionally drawn me to & placed on my heart. The Middle East often pops up in my hearts desires. I’ve worked on a project in Iraq during the war - it excited me more than it scared me 💗

And one thing you will have guessed about me! 😍 I am not religious. At all. I have a deep personal relationship with a man called Jesus. And you’ll find that all my decisions stem from this. Ever since that day He appeared on my yoga mat - I’ve not quite been the same. I have 100% picked up my life & chased after Him since. He’s changed my life. 💗🔥

Tell me about you! What is one thing I would NEVER have guessed about you?

#newfriends #hearttohearts 💕

I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I'm not

I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I'm not enough.
Every single lie that tells me I will never measure up.
Am I more than just the sum of every high and every low?
Remind me once again just who I am because I need to know.

You say I am loved when I can't feel a thing 💗
You say I am strong when I think I am weak 💗
And you say I am held when I am falling short 💗
And when I don't belong, oh You say I am Yours 💗

And I believe
Oh, I believe
What You say of me
I believe

The only thing that matters now is everything You think of me,
In You I find my worth, in You I find my identity. ✝️

Do you need reminding of who you are, friend? You are held. You are loved. Deeply. You were known by the King before you were formed in the womb. You aren’t reading this by accident. 💗✝️ (Soak in this beautiful song - You Say, by @lauren_daigle for a big dose of reminding on WHO you are & WHAT you were called to be 🌎) x

#called #chosen #loved

BEFORE ❌ you take that next painkiller... I impl

BEFORE ❌ you take that next painkiller... I implore you to ask yourself a hugely important question.

This is a question that has, for a lot of my clients - opened Pandora’s box 📦. It’s made them wonder: where now & where else in my life & body am I choosing to numb out? ❌ Where & what else in my body am I resisting? (Because resistance = pain. This is true physically AND emotionally) ❌ Why am I running from fear & thus HEALING 😣? It’s made my therapy clients realize, deeply, how they’re increasing pain, stress & internal tension in their bodies through the suppression of what’s trying to be healed. And once it can be answered & worked through? Well, healing. 😍

Side note 1:
And what is it that’s trying to come out & be heard the most - in chronic pain? In 99% cases I’ve seen - TRAUMA. Which is why I specialize in this now. Painkillers are simply a band-aid.

Side note 2:
It’s one of the big reasons I implore preggy mamas to really - REALLY - think about their birth plan & what their anxiety around pain is revealing to them? Despite the obvs benefit of potentially preventing severe trauma in their bodies & babas - this CAN be a time for healing deep fears & deeply lodged trauma. And not for numbing out.

So what is the question you ask? 💗 I simply ask: “What is the message?” 💗 Your pain is telling you something. In chronic pain conditions, in the recurring headache, in severe period cramps every month, AND YES - in pregnancy & severely painful child birth too. Chronic pain is NOT normal. We were not created to live in this kind of pain - the Bible speaks about this too. His design is perfect. And thus it cries out when there’s a problem. 🙏

Maybe you don’t know the answer to my question? Maybe you’d rather take the painkiller before the pain arrives? In both cases - please seek out a mind body medicine practitioner, friend. 💗 (Like, me 🤗).

There’s healing to be done 💗

- Signed, me doing the work too - #fibromyalgiawarrior in remission

(Extra resources for you to look at in the comments! 💗)

#letsdothework

Hands up the globe trotters ✈️ that are missin

Hands up the globe trotters ✈️ that are missing traveling?! 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️

High up on my list (no idea how I’m going to choose) for when borders open:
👉 Japan 🇯🇵 (the ancient potters of the south west & cherry blossom season 🌸!)
👉 Peru 🇵🇪 🏞 (Inca Trail 🧗🏻‍♀️)
👉 Italy 🇮🇹 (a cooking course in Tuscany 😍👌)
👉 Rwanda 🇷🇼 (exploring mountain gorilla territory 💞 with my @lindslikesthis)
👉 Morocco 🇲🇦 (yoga 🧘🏻‍♀️ retreat and #alltheshopping)
🤩 @giveitawhirl.blog you will defo have to meet me again at one of these my friend!

And OBVS before all this - finally meeting my Sladey (@sammyckerrod). My beautiful English cherub, my nephew, born in July 2020 that is still waiting to meet his aunty 💞

Can’t wait for what’s to come 😍✈️

#dreamingbig (but not really because I know God is on the move & our world will heal 💞!)

As I look towards my last evening of #fibromyalgia

As I look towards my last evening of #fibromyalgia meds I am filled with nervous excitement. Excitement because - is this it? Am I finally, finally & officially in remission? Nervousness because really...

Join my mailing list (link in bio @candsclarkvz) to receive this juicy post & read the rest 🤩💗 (what worked, what I learnt, the MIRACLES - like I have actual pics - of how Jesus showed up, and what I hope encourages you in any battleground you’re on tonight). Because tonight, friends, I move out of the battleground of the heartbroken & desperate, and I sit at the table of celebration! ✝️ It’s been a long few years. I hope this is a note of hope for you 💗

#healed (I’ve been waiting a LONG time to use that hashtag!!!) xo