Sam Stone Therapy

03/06/2026

Its ok to make different/ better choices. Choices that honour you more than your previous ones … 🩷🩷🩷

02/06/2026

In case you had temporarily lost focus… ❤️❤️❤️

02/06/2026

Good morning 🌅 - today is ‘a day’, and we get to shape it however we need that will honour most how we are are feeling right now in our recovery or our journey. What do you most need today? 💙💙💙

01/06/2026

If you know how this feels and the lifelong grief you carry - I see you, and I’m sorry ❤️❤️❤️

💣 One of the deepest wounds a child can carry is not always abuse.

Sometimes it is emotional disconnection.

Growing up around parents who were physically there, but emotionally absent. Parents you could see every day, yet still feel painfully alone around.

Some children grow up without feeling emotionally known.

Without feeling understood.

Without feeling safe enough to fully express themselves.

And that kind of loneliness can follow people into adulthood.

Because when a child does not experience emotional connection early in life, they may grow up constantly searching for it in other people. They may become deeply attached to anyone who makes them feel seen, heard, chosen, or emotionally understood for a moment.

Healing begins when you stop minimizing the pain of emotional absence just because your basic physical needs were met.

Children need more than food, clothing, and shelter.

They also need emotional presence, warmth, safety, affection, understanding, and connection.

And grieving the relationship you needed but never truly had with your parents is a very real kind of grief.

If this resonates with you, you might want to check out I Didn’t Choose to Be Born and Chasing Love That Hurts.

One explores childhood trauma, dysfunctional family dynamics, emotional neglect, the mother wound, the father wound, and healing.

The other explores limerence, emotional fixation, and why emotionally neglected children may later become attached to emotionally unavailable people.

Both books are available through the link in bio.

01/06/2026

Do you always feel a little bit behind and like you’re not where you’re supposed to be? 💜💜💜

23/05/2026

💜💜💜 you’re doing such brave work!

20/05/2026

Wishing you only peace today ❤️❤️‍🩹

19/05/2026

Do people ever try to minimise your pain and grief? It’s only to do with their discomfort in being able to sit with it. Nothing to do with how much you deserve to be heard and how real your pain is 💜

"Everything happens for a reason." "You're stronger than you think." Anything starting with the words "At least..."

Have you heard things like this from people in your life?

So many grieving people stop talking about their grief because it seems no one wants to hear it. We stop saying “this hurts” because no one listens.

Thing is, most people want to help. They just don’t know how. There are tangible, concrete ways to support people in grief. It just takes practice.

I encourage you to hand my first book, It's OK That You're Not OK, to those folks you know want to help you. Direct them to Chapter 14 so that you don't expend any (more) of your energy trying to explain your needs.

The tools there will help them learn how to love you in this. How to come up alongside you, right inside your pain, without trying to cheer you up.

They can make this better, even when they can’t make it right. ❤️‍🩹

05/05/2026

💜💙💜💙 Let’s all talk kindly to ourselves. Thank you The Latest Kate for this little beautiful reminder ❤️