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Tending the Soil — Lesson 1
Part 1 of my new anxiety journaling series is live. If you’re tired of your notebook becoming another place to overthink and spiral, let’s change where…
Poetic Remedy No. 1 - For the Days You Feel Like You’re Falling Behind
Today’s poetic remedy is for the days you feel like you’re falling behind.
 • Debra King
Tending the Soil — Lesson 3
The way we finish a writing session matters just as much as the way we begin. Lesson Three of Tending the Soil is live for the paid community.
 • Debra King
Tending the Soil — Lesson 2
You don’t have to dive into the whole horror story all at once. Lesson Two of Tending the Soil is about a structured, safe way to write about the hard…
 • Debra King
Poetic Remedy No. 12
For the ones who became the parent they always needed.
 • Debra King

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Welcome to Tending the Soil - A trauma-informed writing course for anxious days
Most writing advice assumes you're starting from a calm place. But what happens when your nervous system is already in survival mode before you even…
 • Debra King
Poetic Remedy No. 11
For the ones who are everybody's person but nobody has ever really been theirs.
 • Debra King
Big Shop News: The First Three "Poetic Remedy" Prints Are Live! 🌟
A gentle space for your nervous system, invisible struggles, and inner child healing.
 • Debra King
Why Saying No Feels So Hard After Childhood Trauma
I spent years believing keeping other people happy was my responsibility. I'm still learning it isn't.
 • Debra King
Poetic Remedy No. 10
On the exhaustion of chasing people who aren't looking for you, and the freedom of finally walking away.
 • Debra King
From The Healing Room to The Healing Garden
Learn how to write about trauma safely without shutting down. Step inside The Healing Garden for somatic writing prompts, therapeutic poetry, and…
 • Debra King
Poetic Remedy No. 9 — for the ones who hold it together all day and fall apart at night
The ones who hold the world steady all day long, only to face the heavy silence when the lights go out.
 • Debra King
What Growing Up Around Anger Does to the Nervous System
A personal essay about childhood trauma, emotional abuse, nervous system triggers, and the way the body remembers painful experiences long after…
 • Debra King
Poetic Remedy No. 8 — for the one who mistakes survival for living
You got used to enduring things that should have stopped you. It is time to come back to yourself. Read the full remedy.
 • Debra King
Beautiful Things Grow Here
Beautiful Things Grow Here
Writer and trauma-informed coach with training in somatic therapy, sharing personal essays, poems, and gentle tools focused on childhood trauma, nervous system regulation, and embodied healing.
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