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Loni Fagel, MA, MEd, LPCC LPCC | RST| EMDRIA Approved Consultant™ | Expressive Arts Therapy | Author | 🌍 Trainer & Speaker | Healing trauma, grief & identity through the arts

Tessera (n.) // a single piece in a mosaic. We are not broken by what happened to us. And we can create something new an...
10/16/2026

Tessera (n.) // a single piece in a mosaic.

We are not broken by what happened to us. And we can create something new and beautiful from the pieces.

Healing isn’t about going back to who you were. It’s about becoming. Understanding what changed. Making space for what was lost. Reconnecting with what’s still there.

The story stays. Your relationship to it can change.

Piece by piece. That’s Tessera. Welcome. 🤍

Breast Cancer Awareness Month brings a lot of pink, stories of strength, and messages about survival. I also want us to ...
10/08/2026

Breast Cancer Awareness Month brings a lot of pink, stories of strength, and messages about survival. I also want us to make room for the grief and trauma that can come with it.

Back in June, I wrote an article for The Independent about mastectomy scars and the complicated feelings they can hold. As a previvor who had a double mastectomy, I look at mine and feel two things at once: gratitude that they mean a longer, healthier life, and grief for what I lost to get here. Both are true. Neither cancels the other out.

Scars hold more than the story of a surgery. They can hold fear, pain, loss, and the experience of getting to know a body that no longer looks or feels the same. The physical healing is only part of it.

I believe there is something meaningful in embracing our scars and being able to show them without shame. But embracing them also means acknowledging what someone went through to have them, and allowing them to feel however they feel.

Not everyone is proud of their stripes. Some of us are simply alive because of them, which is a different thing.

This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, let’s make room for the whole experience. For survivors, those still in treatment, those living with metastatic breast cancer, and previvors navigating difficult decisions about their risk and their bodies.

We can be grateful for our lives and still grieve what it took to keep living. We can embrace our bodies and still have complicated feelings about them.

Awareness needs to include that, too.

Full article: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/lush-trans-tiger-double-mastectomy-pride-scars-cancer-controversy-b2998564.html

Curious about what I do? I offer a range of services designed to support healing, growth, and connection.My therapy work...
10/07/2026

Curious about what I do? I offer a range of services designed to support healing, growth, and connection.

My therapy work includes individual and group therapy as well as therapy intensives — personalized support that blends EMDR, expressive arts, sandtray, and other holistic, person-centered approaches to help you navigate trauma, grief, medical trauma, anxiety, depression, identity concerns, and stress-related challenges.

I also provide general consultation for clinicians, healthcare providers, educators, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of how to thoughtfully integrate complex emotional, relational, and trauma-related challenges into their work.

On top of that, I offer trainings and continuing education for professionals in areas like expressive arts, community connection, cultural competency, and trauma-informed practices.

Whether you’re seeking support for yourself or looking to deepen your clinical skills, I’m here to walk alongside you. To learn more or connect, just reach out — I’d love to hear from you.

Trauma. Healing. Resilience. These critical conversations are happening everywhere — and I'm honored to be contributing ...
10/04/2026

Trauma. Healing. Resilience. These critical conversations are happening everywhere — and I'm honored to be contributing to them on a national and international level with , .independent, , , , , and to name a few. 🗞️

Read them via the link in my bio. 🔗

"But you never had cancer."If you're a previvor, you've probably heard some version of this. And maybe you've started to...
10/02/2026

"But you never had cancer."

If you're a previvor, you've probably heard some version of this. And maybe you've started to believe it means your experience doesn't count.

It does.

Living with hereditary cancer risk can mean years of appointments, scans, decisions, and recovery that most people never see. It can mean grief for a body or a future you pictured differently. None of that needs to look like a cancer diagnosis to be real.

This Hereditary Cancer Week, I want to make room for previvors in the conversation, and for the support they need long after the surgery is over.

If this is your story, you're not "lucky" or "overreacting." You're a previvor. And you belong here. 🖤

Gratitude and grief aren't opposites. For many previvors, they arrive together.This Hereditary Cancer Week, I'm making s...
09/29/2026

Gratitude and grief aren't opposites. For many previvors, they arrive together.

This Hereditary Cancer Week, I'm making space for the losses that come with preventative care, the ones that happen on paper, in our bodies, and in our hearts.

If this is your story too, you're not alone in holding both. 🩶

09/27/2026

National Hereditary Cancer Week kicks off today and it feel like a good time to talk about something that can be hard to explain unless you have lived it.

I have lived with a genetic cancer mutation and hereditary cancer risk for more than 20 years. That has meant ongoing surveillance and preventative care for breast, ovarian, skin, and colon cancer.

I consider myself a previvor. I have never had staged cancer, but cancer risk has still shaped so much of my medical care, my body, and my life.

There is a strange in-between space that can come with that. You are grateful to have information and options, but you are also living with something most people do not have to think about in the same way.

You can get to cancer before cancer gets to you. That does not mean the experience leaves you untouched.

This week, I want to make a little more room for the stories of people living in that space too. More to come...

We are never going back to who we were before. And that's worth grieving.On with Brian D. Smith, I talked about losing ...
09/25/2026

We are never going back to who we were before. And that's worth grieving.

On with Brian D. Smith, I talked about losing yourself to a diagnosis, naming your illness so it doesn't swallow your whole identity, and remembering that you're the expert in your own body, medical degree or not.

If you've ever felt like a stranger in your own life after a diagnosis, this one's for you.

🎧🎙️ https://youtu.be/elCed0kPtvo

There is something about fall that naturally feels like a transition. The weather changes, routines shift, and it can be...
09/22/2026

There is something about fall that naturally feels like a transition. The weather changes, routines shift, and it can be a good time to notice what you have been carrying and what you may be ready to let go of. 🍂

Here are 5 things I recommend we stop carrying into fall. 👉🏽

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