Where the thinking behind the work lives
The complete Anastasis series, reflections on developmental and relational trauma, and news of what is coming next.
Welcome — I am so glad you have found your way here.
This is where I share the thinking behind my work: an unfolding series of reflections on Anastasis, the model I have spent years building for understanding and accompanying people through developmental and relational trauma. Anastasis is an ancient Greek word for rebirth — a coming through pain into new life — and that hope runs through everything you will read here.
Over twelve short pieces I walk, step by step, through the whole model: the five Dynamics that move us, and the five Domains we journey through, held together by an opening introduction and a Domain Map. Some posts are written for practitioners who want to work more deeply; others are simply for anyone curious about how we heal. Alongside them you will find news and updates — including announcements about the new Level 7 Diploma built around the model, events, and the occasional thought that will not leave me alone.
Please make yourself at home. Read in order, or follow whatever draws you. And if something here resonates, do get in touch.
What you will find here
The Anastasis Model
Explained gently, in twelve unfolding parts.
Reflections
On trauma, faith, recovery, and the long slow work of hope.
News & Updates
The Level 7 Diploma, upcoming events, and the occasional thought that will not leave me alone.
The Anastasis Series
The complete twelve-part walk through the model. Read in order, or follow whichever piece draws you.
Anastasis
A gentle introduction to the whole model — the word itself, where it came from, and the shape it takes: five Dynamics and five Domains.
Read the post →Dynamics
The five forces that carry us across the landscape of recovery — or hold us back. An overview of Communion, Committee, Labyrinth, Omnibalance, and the Vortex.
Read the post →Communion and Committee
Our relationship with others and with the Source; our relationship with ourselves and with the many inner voices we each carry. The two Dynamics that hold each other in balance.
Read the post →Labyrinth
The winding, single-path journey of recovery. Two steps forward, three steps back — and yet, somehow, forward all the same.
Read the post →Omnibalance
The gradual mastery of both-and over either/or — the capacity to hold contradictory feelings without obliterating either of them.
Read the post →The Vortex
What happens when the movement becomes too much — the dissociative episodes and flashbacks that are so much a part of living with trauma, and the ways through them.
Read the post →The Domain Map
The picture that holds all of this together. How the Dynamics and Domains combine into a single working framework.
Read the post →Accountability
Untangling healthy guilt from toxic shame, and putting responsibility where it truly belongs.
Read the post →Amnesty
Releasing ourselves from the bondage of hatred, resentment, and the longing for payback.
Read the post →Archaeology
Regulation, reclamation, and the digging-up of buried parts of ourselves.
Read the post →Alchemy
The refining of base experience into gold — acceptance, post-traumatic growth, and becoming who we were made to be.
Read the post →Ready to walk this together?
If the series has resonated, the Level 7 Diploma is where it stops being ideas and becomes practice.