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Letting Go to Live Fully: How Releasing What No Longer Serves You Can Open Space for Purpose
Lessons Of 2025: Letting Go To Live In Alignment 2025 asked something very specific of me, not more striving, not more holding some things together, but something far quieter and far more demanding: to let go. At first, that invitation brushed up against something familiar and uncomfortable. I have long known, both personally and professionally, that persistence is not always synonymous with wisdom, that loyalty can quietly become self-abandonment, and that forcing something
Allison Bruce
6 days ago5 min read


I’m Not Making Resolutions This Year. Here’s What I’m Doing Instead.
An Ending That Feels Like a Beginning 2025 has been a year of brave and honest exploration. A year of slowing down enough to truly look at my life and make conscious decisions about what no longer serves me and what genuinely nourishes my soul. This clarity did not arrive through dramatic upheaval or sudden reinvention, but through quiet moments of listening, noticing, and telling myself the truth. Professionally and personally, I began to recognize where effort had turned in
Allison Bruce
Dec 30, 20254 min read


When The Holidays Activate More Than Joy
A relational and embodied way of coping with the holidays For many people, the holidays are not inherently stressful because of schedules, travel, or long to do lists. They are stressful because they activate memories from earlier times in our life. Not just the kind you can name, but the kind your nervous system remembers. The memories are often complicated, just as the holiday season itself can be. In my work as a therapist trained in EMDR and relational, embodied approach
Allison Bruce
Dec 23, 20254 min read


The Road Where Two Healing Paths Meet: EMDR and Ketamine Therapy
There is a moment in trauma therapy I have come to recognize. It is the moment when the body begins to release something it has held for far too long. Sometimes it shows up as a deeper breath, a softening There is a moment in trauma therapy I have come to recognize. It is the moment when the body begins to release something it has held for far too long. Sometimes it shows up as a deeper breath, a softening around the eyes, a subtle shift in posture, or a quiet tremble that si
Allison Bruce
Dec 10, 20255 min read
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