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Joanna Poppink

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Psychotherapist: depth psychotherapy with midlife women. PTSD, anxiety, narcissistic abuse, better quality of life. I cheer for laughter, courage, creativity, healing power of love. MFT; CA, FL, OR, AZ. www.eatingdisorderrecovery.net; joanna@poppink.com

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No Contact With Narcissistic Family Is the Beginning, Not the Healing No contact is a threshold. What follows is grief, inner work, and the slow return of freedom.

No Contact With Narcissistic Family Is the Beginning, Not the Healing

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#narcissism #nocontact #healingwork

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The Return of Meaning The return of meaning brings coherence, inner authority, and spiritual clarity in midlife. Depth psychotherapy reveals purpose and direction.

Claiming the Lost Self β€” Chapter Five: The Return of Meaning
Developmental life of a woman midlife and beyond

Meaning returns without spectacle.
It restores direction toward what is real.

#DepthPsychology #women #midlifewomen

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26.01.2026 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Rescue Dream A rescue dream reveals the return of instinct, clarity, and the lost self in midlife healing. Depth psychotherapy brings this awakening forward.

Claiming the Lost Self β€” Chapter Four: The Rescue Dream

Rescue begins within.
The psyche redirects energy toward the woman who once abandoned herself to survive.

The Rescue Dream
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#DepthPsychology

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You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof. What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.

From a reporter who passed as an ICE applicant.

ο»ΏYou’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof. By Laura Jedeed

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Meeting The Self Who Never Died A midlife woman’s hidden self begins to rise after years of silence. Depth psychotherapy helps her in meeting the self who never died.

Claiming the Lost Self β€” Chapter Three: The Self Who Never Died

The self many women believe they lost never died.
She hid to survive conditions that could not bear her truth.

In midlife, she begins to emerge.

#DepthPsychology

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12.01.2026 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Claiming the Lost Self β€” Chapter Two: Dreams of the Rescuer

Rescue dreams are early signals of inner protection forming beneath awareness.

This chapter explores how the unconscious offers guidance long before a woman feels ready to act.

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#DepthPsychology #MidlifeWomen

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A Brief Statement on My Use of AI in Writing and Psychotherapy-Related Work I use advanced AI tools as editorial and cognitive support, not as a source of psychological insight, clinical judgment, or meaning. AI assists me with structure, revision, comparison, and technical c...

A brief reflection on using AI as an editorial support without surrendering judgment, meaning, or psychological authority.

Thought comes before tools.

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Following the False Map of Love A woman can spend decades following a false map of love. This article shows how depth psychotherapy supports claiming the lost self and returning to truth.

Chapter One of Rescuing the Lost Self is now available.

Following the False Map of Love explores how early ideas of love shape adult choices and judgment.

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#DepthPsychology #InnerAuthority #Women

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Congratulations and bon voyage! My experience: the main task is writing. The "trick" is in the editing! πŸ™ƒ and tweaking and editing and rewriting! As far as I know, only Mozart write a first draft that was an unedited masterpiece. πŸ™ƒπŸ˜

12.12.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Claiming the Lost Self β€” Series Introduction for Midlife Women Claiming the Lost Self series traces midlife women moving adaptive self protection toward living a life based on their true values.

Ending conditioned responses and becoming true to yourself. The path in a seven part series.
Claiming the Lost Self: An essential task for midlife women eatingdisorderrecovery.net/recovery-hea...
#midlifewomen #women #freedom #strength #growth #development #aging

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Commentary: Trump's message to 'nice' Americans: You're all illegal now If you dare show decency to people without papers, you want to 'destroy everything that America stands for,' and 'you won’t be here for long!' per the president. Not even your passport or your birth c...

Must read. Please share. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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When the Bark Splits: Shedding in Midlife Women Shedding in midlife is a natural psychological renewal as women outgrow old roles and reveal the deeper structure of their true identity.

Trees shed bark. Women shed roles.
Midlife growth is quieter, deeper, and more honest than we’re taught.
New article up.
#PsychologicalRenewal #WomenAndIdentity #DepthPsychotherapy

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27.11.2025 06:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Inner Stability in an Unstable World Inner stability helps midlife women manage eating disorder triggers during uncertainty. Recovery builds strength and calm even when the world is unstable.

Nonstop instability pushes stress beyond capacity.
Inner stability is how recovery continues, even when the world does not calm.

Read the article:
Inner Stability in an Unstable World

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#midlifewomen #recovery #innerauthority #therapy #depthpsychotherapy

17.11.2025 06:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Reclaiming Inner Authority in Midlife Reclaiming inner authority means learning to trust your own perception and act from truth. Depth psychotherapy work restores authentic self-leadership.

Being seen as a path to freedom.

Read: Reclaiming Inner Authority

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#InnerAuthority #DepthPsychotherapy #MidlifeWomen #AuthenticLiving #PsychologicalFreedom
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Reversing the Narcissist’s Gaze Reversing the narcissist’s gaze helps women reclaim self-perception through depth psychotherapy and see themselves through their own eyes.

Reversing the narcissist’s gaze means seeing yourself through your own eyes again. Depth psychotherapy restores clarity, compassion, and truth.
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#DepthPsychotherapy #WomensHealing #NarcissisticAbuseRecovery #InnerFreedom

13.11.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Healing Dream: Rescuing the Lost Self A healing dream reveals how instinct, courage, and consciousness rescue what was once lost. Depth psychotherapy restores safety and vitality.

A healing dream isn’t fantasyβ€”it’s the psyche rewriting its story.
When instinct returns, the lost self is rescued, and life becomes one’s own again.

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#HealingDream #DepthPsychotherapy #LostSelf #MidlifeWomen #Transformation #JoannaPoppink

13.11.2025 04:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The real you: overeater and unworthy or creative and valuable? Answer *pix Rise and soar in freedomΒ If you are bogged down in your overeating behaviors and your unhappiness about being overweight by your standards, you m

When self-worth erodes in midlife it’s the beginning of truth.
Fifteen questions to help you rediscover who you are beneath self-criticism.

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#SelfWorth #MidlifeWomen #DepthPsychology #HealingJourney #JoannaPoppink

12.11.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Eating Disorder Behavior Can Be a Form of Panic Attack When eating disorder panic attack behavior appears, depth psychotherapy opens a way to recovery and restores inner safety.

Rewrite from 2017 to 2025. I'm learning more. Sometimes what seems like willpower or control around food is really panic in disguise. tinyurl.com/4x99vju3
#DepthPsychotherapy #EatingDisorderRecovery #PanicAndAnxiety #EmotionalRegulation #MindBodyConnection #InnerSafety #JoannaPoppink

09.11.2025 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dreams: your doorway to eating disorder healing and a meaningful life β€œTrust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide.” Carl Jung If you have an eating disorder you may not know who to listen to, who to trust

Dreams tell the truth long before we can face it.
A nightmare once ended the life I was livingβ€”and began the one I was meant for.

On trusting dreams as living truth-tellers:
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#DreamsAndRecovery #DepthPsychotherapy #Jungian #Healing #Dreamwork #MidlifeWomen #Psychotherapy

05.11.2025 05:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Discouragement versus Depression in Midlife Women How to distinguish discouragement versus depression in midlife and older women. What's deep and what's temporary?

Discouragement passes when life changes.
Depression stays until you do.
Learn how to tell the difference.

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#therapy #mentalhealth #stress #depression #discouragement #mentalstrength #inspiration

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Your are here for a reason. Jane Goodall's, famous last words. If you watch three minutes of anything this week, let it be the video below. I have no words to describe how incredible this wom... Your are here for a reason. Jane Goodall's, famous last words. If you watch three minutes of anything this week, let it be the video below. I have no words to describe how incredible this woman w...

In case you missed this, here are Jane Goodall's final words to us.

#Goodall #environment #nature #hope #healing #courage #life

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Nobel Peace Prize Committee Chairman’s Message To Trump After He Fails To Win | Maria Corina Machado
YouTube video by Hook Global Nobel Peace Prize Committee Chairman’s Message To Trump After He Fails To Win | Maria Corina Machado

Nobel Peace Prize announcement, brilliant, clear, brave, intelligent, and a major confrontation with what Trump represents. Stay for the Q&A. It gets even better.

#Nobel #Democracy #Authoritarianism #Courage #Machado

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#madonna #feministmovement #speech #feminism
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Madonna.What a force! So worth listening to this.

#women, #freedom #independence #selfwork

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My dog Jeffrey and I saw it on our walk tonight. Gorgeous. Temperature and humidity were great too. Wonderful night to walk. Sometimes Los Angeles is still a glorious place to live.

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Workplace Sabotage: Why and How Talented Women Are Undermined Why and how talented women are undermined at work β€” the psychology of sabotage, the cost to women, and how therapy restores authority.

Excellence can provoke jealousy and sabotage in the workplace.
Learn why it happens, how it affects health and confidence, and how depth therapy supports recovery and independence.

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#WomenAndWork #Jealousy #ToxicLeadership #ResilientWomen #WorkplaceBetrayal #DepthPsychotherapy

05.10.2025 03:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Age and Aging: Yes, we can continue to shape and write our story for as long as we live. It's our story, not defined by others but by ourselves. Joanna Poppink

#age #aging

02.10.2025 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
From Womb to Midlife: Healing Your Gestational and Birth Imprints At midlife, early womb and birth imprints echo in body and psyche. Healing them brings resilience, freedom, and renewal.

Our beginnings matter. Even without memory, gestation + birth imprints echo in midlife.

#birth #depthpsychotherapy #healing #midlife #midlifewomen #gestation #lifeinthewomb

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Such as We Are for as Long as It Lasts How aging and change reveal the deeper story of who we are: for midlife women

Time isn’t linear. Aging and change reveal the deeper story of who we are.
My new essay on Medium: Such as We Are for as Long as It Lasts.

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#midlifewomen #aging #selfdiscovery

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