Notes from Within:
REFLECTIONS ON HEALING, SPIRIT, AND THE BODY
The Time I Accidentally Wrote My Future: Intuitive Writing & Forward Reflection
What started as raw, unfiltered writing during a difficult season quietly became a map for the year ahead. In this reflection, Mallory shares how intuitive writing—without intention, structure, or expectation—revealed people, experiences, and becoming before they ever arrived. A story about nervous system safety, listening deeply, and discovering that reflection doesn’t always look backward… sometimes it remembers the future.
Part 2, Quick Fixes vs. Continuity: Why Care Matters in Trauma Therapy
In the second of this two-part reflection, Mallory explores the true depth of why continuity of care matters in trauma therapy and why we are drawn to the quick fixes.
Part 1, Beyond Buzzwords: What Healing Really Means in Trauma Therapy
Healing isn’t a buzzword. It’s a layered, relational, non-linear process. In this two-part reflection, Mallory explores the true depth of healing and why continuity of care matters in trauma therapy.
The Roundness of Healing: The Soul’s Language
Healing is rarely linear it’s a round, unfolding process of remembering who we are. In this reflection on spiritual integration therapy, Mallory Tedrick, LPCC, explores how the language of the soul can guide trauma healing beyond words. Through somatic awareness, mindfulness, and holistic practices, she invites clients to connect body, mind, and spirit to rediscover meaning after anxiety, depression, or PTSD. This approach to holistic trauma therapy honors both the science of psychology and the mystery of the sacred within.
The Roundedness of Healing: Attuning to Emotion Through Embodied Practice
There’s often that moment in sessions when words begin to falter.
The pauses, the searching for language, and the slumping of the shoulders. The breath shortens and gaze shifts.
And I know: the body is speaking.
I’ve come to trust that the body often knows before the mind does. It holds stories, signals, and truths that language can’t always reach. That’s why embodiment and emotional attunement are central to my integrative approach. They’re not add-ons…they are the bridge.
The Roundedness of Healing: Education as Repair
When clients begin their “healing” journey, many arrive carrying stories or beliefs about themselves that were never fully named, let alone understood. They’ve felt:
“too much” or “too sensitive” or “not enough”
What they didn’t know was that their nervous system was simply doing its best to protect them.
This is where education becomes repair.
The Roundedness of Healing Where Wholeness Begins: My Integrative Foundation in Trauma-Informed Care
We live in a world that often asks us to either compartmentalize or detach. To detach our body from mind, emotion from logic, and healing from daily life.
Pause and allow that to sink in.
Having experienced this large ask myself, I continued to find myself returning repeatedly to the roundedness. The wholeness. The quiet truth that healing is not linear, and it’s never just one thing.
Turning Inward Before Outward
Do you wake up already bracing?
Before your feet hit the floor, before the coffee brews, before the kids burst in with their pitter-patter and the pets demand their morning rituals—your stomach is already in knots. Your heart races. The day hasn’t begun, and yet your nervous system is already sprinting.
Adult Play IS Productivity
Lately, I’ve been allowing myself to just be—to breathe, to rest, and to enjoy the little things without pressure. Carrying that practice into my weeks has been a gift. Of course, planning ahead helps me check things off my list, but I’m also learning the value of slowing down and being present.
A few weeks ago, I had an experience that reminded me why play matters
How I REALLY feel about the word Healing
We’re often told that healing is something we arrive at. A place we reach once we’ve “done the work,” moved through the pain, and left the hard stuff behind.
But I don’t believe we can be healed—not in the clean, final way that word suggests.
Welcome: Who I Am, How I Got Here, and Why This Work Matters
I’m not exactly sure what this post will become, but I am trusting that this is the right place to start. So—welcome. It means a lot that you’re reading this.
I’m a Licensed Independent Social Worker and Clinical Psychotherapist, but those words only scratch the surface of who I am and what I do. I work with clients who are ready to go deep—not just into the roots of their anxiety or depression, but into their soul. Into a blueprint they can feel but haven’t yet fully accessed—or perhaps lost touch with along the way.
My work is body-based, trauma-informed, and soul-centered.