"It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here."
-James Baldwin
Megan Moon, M.A.,LPC
Therapist+Owner of Reclamation Psychotherapy
Hi, my name is Megan Moon and I help people recover from complex trauma.
We can chat more about the how in a bit, but for now, I want you to know that most of us feel hesitant and scared to begin this process. Like, what the hell is a “healing journey?” It sounds made up AF.
You may have a general sense that you have been affected by your childhood, but the full picture is fuzzy. Perhaps you remember some of the hard things that you survived or maybe you just feel a deep ache in your chest when you think about how alone you felt or how the people in your life who were supposed to protect you, failed to do so when you needed them most. Maybe always. Maybe every time.
However you know it. I trust your knowing.
Up until this point, you have been surviving so well! Even if you don’t realize it yet, you have been keeping yourself afloat for your entire life in really smart and adaptive ways. These adaptations you have learned to manage life so far make up a well-laid path in front of you. I bet you could walk it with your eyes closed.
But you may also be noticing that you are endlessly exhausted and drained, that you feel disconnected from yourself and others, your body may hurt and get sick often, you may feel stuck, heavy and hopeless, or perhaps you feel anxious and braced struggling to remember the last time that you felt calm, if ever.
So, how do we honour the path that helped us survive while slowly and with intention building a new path that recovers us? With help, it turns out. That’s why I’m here.
I am a licensed and trained complex trauma therapist, yes, but I am also a complex trauma survivor. I have lived through the darkest moments, shed the layers of who they told me I was, and then slowly piece-by-piece, stepping stone-by-stepping stone, I reconnected with parts of myself and reclaimed who I was meant to be. Who I always was.
I consider it the honour of my lifetime to walk with other complex trauma survivors in their reclamation of self. To connect you back to all of the things that you were talked out of. All of the things that were taken from you. To be your fiercely protective yet gentle guide in the unique reclamation of you.
So, what do you say? Shall we reconnect you to your body, your power, your authenticity, your gut and intuition and the boundaries needed to keep you whole? It is not as scary as it sounds, I promise. We will always go at your pace with tons of consent along the way.
