Articles and Reflections
At Root & Return Wellness, we believe that healing is supported by curiosity, reflection, and community. This space offers articles created by our clinicians to deepen understanding and nurture well-being.
Whether you are exploring trauma-informed care, adoption experiences, or practices for embodiment and presence, we hope these reflections meet you where you are.
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Articles and Reflections
A collection of thoughtful writings from our team offering insight, encouragement, and education for your healing journey.
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What Is Person-Centered Therapy? A Human Approach to Healing
Learn what Person-Centered Therapy is, how unconditional positive regard, empathy, and congruence shape the process, and why this approach can feel deeply healing.
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Set Healthy Boundaries in Relationships Without Avoiding the Real Work
Setting healthy boundaries sounds simple—but in reality, it’s emotionally demanding. This piece explores the inner work, grief, and self-reflection required to navigate relationships while honoring your needs and healing generational patterns.
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Miscarriage and IVF: Navigating the Liminal Space of Infertility
I must give credit to one of my clients, who unknowingly inspired me to write this blog post, as we had a session during which he shared his discovery of the phrase: “liminal space.” He was deeply moved by this “moving between worlds” energetic, spiritual, and embodied experience - leaving one to enter another, but not quite fully knowing what the one to come might bring. It is a powerful, often uncomfortable, period of transition.
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Building Emotional Safety: Healing Trauma Through Connection
Relationships can be both the source of such powerful healing and also the source of our most painful wounds. What do we do with this simultaneous power and vulnerability in our relationship with ourselves and with others?
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Motherhood and Cultural Reconnection as a Korean Transracial Adoptee
When my daughter was very young, I would talk to her about “the hard part and the fun part” of things. This was my way of honoring the coexistence of both challenges and gifts in life, in the hopes of her learning that both can be true, and both can be held. These simple words often ring so familiarly true for adoptees in many parts of life.