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10/09/2025

My latest blog

Sacred Rage: When Screaming Becomes Prayer There’s a kind of rage that doesn’t destroy – it sanctifies. I’ve felt it rise in me like a tide that wouldn’t be silenced, not in therapy, not in …

15/07/2025

Ive been a Body Psychotherapist for 3 decades and Hakomi Practitioner for 2. Here is my first blog.

As a Hakomi therapist, I often say: “The body remembers what the mind forgets.” Trauma isn’t just a memory of something that happened – it’s an experience that lives in the nervous system. People…

19/01/2025

I’m excited to announce a new project with my friend in Mexico, Gabi. We are both passionate about trauma informed practice and we’ve developed a full online programme of trainings. It starts this Thursday with And Still I Rise, a free workshop over two consecutive Thursdays. Please take a look at what we are offering, come to all or just try one. Thanks for checking us out.

The body is our primary teacher; attuning and feeling our body, being in our body, is the basis of the Wisdom of the Body series. We offer this necessary and powerful approach for healing trauma, as it views learning in an experiential, embodied and mindful way.

19/03/2024

We can be many things when we aren’t okay.

Credit to: Jarod K Anderson

https://www.jarodkanderson.com/writing

08/03/2023

Taking in the good feedback from clients at a cancer charity I work for, who have completed their therapy.

05/01/2023

Is it a Happy New year for you?

When I say ‘happy new year’,
I'm not for a moment,
expecting this to occur,
for that is not possible…
a year must be all things.

Happiness must come and go,
like the tides and the winds,
just as sadness,
and all the emotions in between.

When I say ‘happy new year’,
I'm really wishing you,
a baseline of peace,
of gratitude.

Because if you can sit with these things,
for the most part,
happiness will thrive,
when it does arrive,
and sadness will know its place in the mix.

If you can nourish these things,
daily,
you will also grow hope,
for it flourishes in such soil.

And hope is the key,
to this enigmatic state
of ‘happiness’ we seek.

When I say ‘happy new year’,
I’m really wishing you more happy days,
than sad days,
more joy than misery,
more laughter than tears…
and the wisdom to accept,
that they all belong.

Happy new year, my friends.
Happy new year.

Donna Ashworth
Life: https://amzn.eu/d/9Y6E6kz

Art by Leena Nio

#2023

11/08/2022

Is this why some people prefer animals to humans?

“If you work hard enough to heal your trauma, you will eventually function like an ordinary neurotypical.” That’s the lie many “trauma-informed” experts are peddling.

04/06/2022

This is my series of wise words I call Talking Trauma. The first is from Bessel van de Kolks’ book, The Body Keeps the Score. He states that the memory of the trauma acts like a foreign body, which long after it’s entry must still be regarded as an agent that is still at work. So although the trauma is challenging for us, it is the aftershock that causes us to be traumatised and this is what brings people to therapy.

27/05/2021