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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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Claiming the Lost Self — 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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The Return of Meaning
The return of meaning brings coherence, inner authority, and spiritual clarity in midlife. Depth psychotherapy reveals purpose and direction.
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January 26, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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Claiming the Lost Self — 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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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.
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January 20, 2026 at 3:17 AM
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From a reporter who passed as an ICE applicant.

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

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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.
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January 14, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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Claiming the Lost Self — 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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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.
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January 12, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Claiming the Lost Self — 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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January 6, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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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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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...
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December 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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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
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.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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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
Claiming the Lost Self — 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.
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December 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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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...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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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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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.
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November 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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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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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.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Being seen as a path to freedom.

Read: Reclaiming Inner Authority

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#InnerAuthority #DepthPsychotherapy #MidlifeWomen #AuthenticLiving #PsychologicalFreedom
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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.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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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
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.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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A healing dream isn’t fantasy—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
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.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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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
The real you: overeater and unworthy or creative and valuable? Answer
*pix Rise and soar in freedom If you are bogged down in your overeating behaviors and your unhappiness about being overweight by your standards, you m
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November 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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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
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.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Dreams tell the truth long before we can face it.
A nightmare once ended the life I was living—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
Dreams: your doorway to eating disorder healing and a meaningful life
“Trust 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
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November 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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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
Discouragement versus Depression in Midlife Women
How to distinguish discouragement versus depression in midlife and older women. What's deep and what's temporary?
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October 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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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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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...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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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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Nobel Peace Prize Committee Chairman’s Message To Trump After He Fails To Win | Maria Corina Machado
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October 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Madonna.What a force! So worth listening to this.

#women, #freedom #independence #selfwork

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#madonna #feministmovement #speech #feminism
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October 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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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
Workplace Sabotage: Why and How Talented Women Are Undermined
Why and how talented women are undermined at work — the psychology of sabotage, the cost to women, and how therapy restores authority.
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October 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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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
October 2, 2025 at 5:37 AM