Welcome to the Erica Barton Counseling Blog
A space for reflection, healing, and growth. Here you’ll find insights on trauma recovery, nervous system regulation, attachment healing, and somatic therapy written to support cycle breaking women and therapists through their healing experiences. Explore topics like Anxiety, Relationships, Trauma, Brainspotting, IFS therapy, and embodied mindfulness practices that help you reconnect with your true, whole, authentic self.
Whether you’re seeking trauma therapy in Bend, Oregon, virtual therapy in Oregon state, or online Yoga Therapy anywhere you are, these articles offer guidance, education, and gentle encouragement for your healing journey.
Beyond rest: Why Burnout is complex
Every time I have been expanding into a fuller version of my life that I have been working towards, that I have been envisioning, wanting, dreaming, that is more authentically aligned, that I am genuinely ready for, my nervous system capacity starts to shrink and tense around the expansion, and my functioning takes a dip.
Aside from the obvious reasons which is that we are asking more of our brains, bodies, and hearts when we expand into new territory, my experience is that it goes beyond that, especially when one is living with developmental trauma, attachment wounds, etc., which is why the advice to rest more can be more of a temporary band-aid than a long term solution.
Self Authorship and the Lives we Inherit
This is why expansion starts with curiosity, then deconstruction. And in deconstruction work, rather than dismantling Self, we are excavating; remembering parts that have been buried in favor of survival or connection in an environment that couldn’t make space for all of you.