Lori Williams | A Liminal Space Coaching

Category: trauma recovery coaching

  • One Box at a Time

    Can you remember the last 5 self-help tips you saw on Instagram? I couldn’t. Every scroll triggers emotions without purpose. Every post we forget still drains our energy. Information that isn’t thoughtfully applied just becomes noise. Time to sort through one box at a time.

  • The Ground Beneath My Feet

    All I’d ever done was pretend—first in the family that raised me, then in the church. I didn’t even know I was pretending. Then I finally faced the truth, and people were talking about me. What followed was almost a decade of wandering. But what I’ve found in peer support groups isn’t another savior—it’s shared…

  • Finding Solid Ground When Everything Feels Like Chaos

    Does it ever feel like too much? I open social media and immediately feel overwhelmed. I miss the old Facebook—when my feed was just friends sharing life updates. Now I’m bombarded with headlines screaming that the world is on fire, democracy is crumbling, and I need to act now or be complicit. My nervous system…

  • Care or Carrying?

    **Tags:** – trauma recovery – boundaries – codependency – religious trauma – emotional responsibility – self-leadership – caring vs carrying – parenting adult children – healing patterns – compassion fatigue – inner work – family dynamics – faith deconstruction – emotional boundaries – recovery coaching **Excerpt:** I was 17 when I called my ex-boyfriend to…

  • Finding Your True North: Why Grounding in Your Values Matters Now More Than Ever

    The Blur Between Authentic and Expected The line between our genuine values and society’s expectations has become so blurred that many of us don’t even know where one ends and the other begins. When was the last time you paused to ask yourself what you actually care about, separate from what you think you should…

  • Mental Health is Strength Training for Your Soul

    I’ve been noticing something lately that really bothers me. When you’re struggling emotionally, it can feel incredibly isolating – especially when everyone around you seems fine or like they’re having the time of their lives while you’re sitting on the sidelines. Have you ever noticed that in our culture, it’s really not okay to not…

  • Fall Equinox Reflection

    To our sons, it looks like a field that needs bush-hogging, but if you look closely in the thick mess of overgrown weeds, you’ll find the reasons we decided not to mow it down. All the beautiful spots of color and diversity—dried-out grass and half-alive flowers. If we just leave them alone for a little…

  • Breaking Down the Barriers to Love

    “I spent almost half a decade looking into the mirror and seeing someone else. Who did I see? Someone who everyone else expected me to be. People-pleasing doesn’t give your true self the opportunity to be loved—and it doesn’t give someone else the opportunity to be loved by your true self.”

  • Navigating the Cracks

    I’ve been trying to understand what I’m feeling when I look at social media these days. Confusion, fear, anger, and so much grief over where we are as a country right now. It feels like walking across a frozen pond with cracks, wondering when we might fall through. But I’m learning that beneath the surface…

  • Understanding Fawning: Breaking Cycles of Survival-Based Relationships

    Unlike fight, flight, or freeze responses that happen in the moment, fawning is different—it’s a survival pattern learned over time. Dr. Mary Catherine MacDonald explains how this trauma response develops through repeated experiences, creating adults who struggle to simply exist in relationships without constantly scanning for others’ needs. But understanding fawning is the first step…