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    Spirituality,  Trauma Healing

    Dreams of freedom and defining values

    25th September 2016 /

    What is freedom for you? Can you answer with one word, perhaps you need one sentence? And what do you dream of? Do you need more than a sentence to describe your dream? I understand – we often don’t know what we’re dreaming of or perhaps, all the more, we’re not daring into thinking what our dream really is. And sometimes it takes quite a long time to realise it… I’m one of the people who until now didn’t understand what they really long for. I knew I was longing for something, something else than what I was experiencing. But I think I may have been too scared to question myself –…

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    You and your feelings are valid

    24th July 2017
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    You deserve your love

    14th August 2017
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    Reclaiming a lost self: an experience in my home country

    13th September 2016
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    Spirituality,  Trauma Healing

    Showing up for ourselves: an experience of a photo session

    30th June 2016 /

    I have been quiet for the past few weeks. So much has happened that it’s somewhat hard to even start – where do I start from? Part of the reasons why I haven’t written, is that I’ve been feeling a lot of internal integration of everything I’ve been through lately. Meaning, while up until now I’ve been doing a lot of mental untangling helped by my writing, for the last 3 weeks I’ve been feeling as all this has been integrating in my body and physical life. Literally, I am feeling the embodying of the shifts happening within me. I didn’t feel like I want to write about something so I…

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    Motherhood and enjoying the present moment

    2nd October 2017
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    The choice is yours

    7th August 2017
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    Follow your feelings

    11th September 2017
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    Trauma Healing

    Learning to trust: connecting to our inner wisdom

    5th May 2016 /

    In February I wrote about the small steps that me and my family are taking, and the changes coming from that. Now, a few months later, things are still moving forward and there’s much progress. In this post I’d like to revisit and recap all that started at the beginning of this year. Perhaps the most significant area in our lives as a family was our housing situation. The house we live in and are taking care of is about to be announced for sale. When my partner’s grant aunt died earlier in January we knew our boat is to be rocked. But we’ve already started on the process of getting…

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    On support and being in the flow

    19th April 2017
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    Happy where I am

    13th September 2017
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    How to work with difficult feelings

    20th March 2017
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    Trauma Healing

    Becoming our true selves

    2nd March 2016 /

    I had a revelation – I had put my life on pause. About 3 years ago I unconsciously put my own life on hold. What happened at that time is that I moved in with my partner and we had a baby. Life drastically changed as I moved out of my flat in Dublin city and moved in a quieter area nearby; I said goodbye to single life living with my best friend and embraced sharing a relationship and a 3 bedroom house with my boyfriend. I also lost my job and not long after that we got pregnant. It was a life overhaul. I switched identities over a few months. Consciously…

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    My Pain is My Power

    17th June 2019
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    Soul Searching

    10th October 2015
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    Being present: getting to know and love ourselves

    22nd December 2015
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    Spirituality

    Taking the first steps

    6th February 2016 /

    The first steps have been taken. In fact, we’ve been making them for the last few weeks. We’ve been decluttering our house constantly and continually – we’ve brought tens of bags to the charity shops (plus small furniture items), we’ve recycled a couple of bags with old and unused electronics, and we’ve managed to put aside a couple of hundred euros from selling stuff. The house feels lighter and calmer. So do we – our small family of three. I mentioned last time that we’re taking care of the house (about 3 1/2 years now) while the owner, my partner’s grant aunt, is slowly winding down in a nursing home. Well,…

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    Follow your feelings

    11th September 2017
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    Working with the moon, its energy and phases

    19th March 2018
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    The beginning of a new journey: embracing minimalism

    28th January 2016
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    Trauma Healing

    A new breath of life

    21st January 2016 /

    Well, it’s been a while… Too many things are happening and too little, I’ve got loads of things I want to write about and share. Funny enough, I’m not getting frustrated at all, as what I would normally do. I do in fact enjoy savouring and simmering (2 of my new favourite words) all the thoughts, ideas, information bits and bytes I’ve gathered along the last few weeks. This is a slow down time for my zodiac sign Virgo and all Virgonians, as we’re hosting two planets in a retrograde mode. Mercury and Jupiter are both slowing us down and giving us the chance to re-think, re-consider, re-organise – you get…

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    Being the gods that we are

    22nd April 2016

    The pandemic as an opportunity to continue healing – repairing what was once ruptured

    7th July 2021

    The good, the bad, and everything in between – the blessings of another Christmas

    27th December 2021
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    Trauma Healing

    Learning to love ourselves

    30th December 2015 /

    Learning to love yourself is probably one of the hardest things we will have to do in life. Some never get to enjoy the feeling of self-love. Others are lucky to have built it slowly for themselves. And third have experienced the bliss of growing up in a loving environment and cultivating self-love along the way.In any case, living your life without loving yourself could hardly be called living. And, more or less, we’re all here to learn to love in one way or another. I’ve always struggled with self-esteem, self-worth and self-love. I didn’t realise how crucial these qualities are until recently, and how they affect all spheres of…

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    How relationships help us heal and transform

    8th October 2016
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    Breaking free of our mental prisons

    9th June 2016
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    Inner Child Therapy: Working with the father and mother roles

    12th April 2017
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I am Vilina Christoph and I write about my journey of healing from childhood trauma and emotional neglect. I use words to transmute the pain from the adverse experiences into fuel for growth and empowerment. I believe we have the power to heal ourselves and transform our lives from within. I am passionate about helping women heal and grow to become their authentic selves and build an abundant life.

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