I’m Lilian Childress, a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional with an MFA in Creative Writing and a shamanism background. In high schools, colleges, and prisons, I’ve taught my students to discover their inner lives as worthy of narrative and rich in meaning. In private practice, I help folks with complex trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, self-harm, and grief. With an Internal Family Systems approach, I guides clients through the journey to heal themselves from within by finding and giving deep witness to their own wounds. I wants to share with you what it feels like to slow down and show up for yourself. What happens inside you matters. It makes sense when you turn inward, acknowledge it with respect, and work with it. Through my talks and meditations, you can find your wounded parts, come to understand why they are there and what past experiences they hold. You can tend to them. Finally someone is there to listen and truly see them. That someone is You. And when you take care of your wounds, you free other parts—the ones that have tried to protect you through numbing, self-harm, addiction, rage, people-pleasing, perfectionism. Even the part that shames you may no longer need to do so, if your most hidden wound is found and helped. This inner work is available to you, as you are, right now.