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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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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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#midlifewomen #recovery #innerauthority #therapy #depthpsychotherapy
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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November 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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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
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Our beginnings matter. Even without memory, gestation + birth imprints echo in midlife.

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

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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.
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September 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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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
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
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September 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Culture says women at midlife are at their limit or “finished.” Good grief.

What if that moment is actually the threshold to renewal, creativity, and power?

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#midlifewomen #womenleaders #midlifewomenchallenges #selfworth
Midlife Women, My Muse, and the Refusal to Defer
What if midlife is the time to claim your own story, be visible and expand your life?
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September 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Outward success. Inner unease.

Many midlife professional women live with conflict. Depth psychotherapy can help transform burnout, perfectionism, and loneliness into meaning and strength.

#MidlifeWomen #DepthPsychotherapy #ProfessionalWomen

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Depth-Oriented Psychotherapy for Midlife Women: How It Works and Why It Matters
For midlife and professional women facing self-doubt and hidden conflicts. Depth psychotherapy transforms pressure and doubt into courage,
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September 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Bright fruit in the sun — a reminder of what deserves to be seen. Midlife professional women often give without recognition. This article + worksheet explores how depth psychotherapy helps shift from silent sacrifice to self-respect.

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Midlife Professional Women: Depth Psychotherapy for Hidden Patterns of Compliance
Even accomplished professional women can feel trapped in midlife, deferring to authority, giving away credit, and carrying invisible burdens. Depth-oriented psychotherapy reveals and transforms these ...
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September 14, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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You're in midlife. One day you wake up, and the life you’ve built no longer fits.
The rules, the roles, the expectations—you’ve outgrown them.

This isn’t a breakdown.
It’s the call of your unlived life.
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#MidlifeWomen #DepthPsychotherapy
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September 8, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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September 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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#therapy #midlifewomen #women #midlife #decisionmaking #lifedirection #lifechange #depthpsychotherapy
Midlife Women: Choosing Your 'Inner CEO'
For midlife women: Discover the Inner Boardroom framework to choose your best “Inner CEO” and lead your life with clarity and purpose.
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August 30, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Worksheet: Midlife Women’s Compliance – Reflections on Cost and Current Choices
accompanies "Women's Compliance and Triumph: The Cost of Both in Midlife"

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#therapy #women #midlifewomen #writers #freedom #autonomy
Midlife Women's Compliance Worksheet
Reflect on women’s compliance, its cost, and midlife choices with this guided worksheet, literary companions, and psychotherapy insights.
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August 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Midlife brings a reckoning for many women. Their roles are insufficient. They long for authenticity.

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#MidlifeWomen #DepthPsychotherapy #SelfDiscovery #CulturalChange #therapy #writers #women
Women's Compliance and Triumph: The Cost of Both in Midlife
Explore how compliance shapes midlife women’s lives and how depth psychotherapy helps reclaim identity, vitality, and authenticity.
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August 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM