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AGLOW is a global hub created by Stacy Ruse, LPC, to guide therapists and healers in embodying their most authentic Self. By integrating therapeutic approaches — including EMDR, Somatic therapies, Parts Work informed by the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, Transpersonal practices, and therapeutic Yoga practices — Stacy offers conscious courses, consultation, and resources that foster deep healing and growth.

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* Please note I am not afflicated with the IFS institute.

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Healing trauma through embodiment isn't theory - it's lived experience 💫🌊

Our EMDR Therapy video explores how bilateral stimulation combined with somatic awareness creates profound shifts in how trauma is held in the body. This isn't just about processing memories - it's about helping your nervous system finally complete the survival responses that got stuck during traumatic experiences.

Through this video, you'll understand how EMDR works with your body's natural healing mechanisms, why embodiment is essential to trauma processing, and how this approach honors both the wisdom of your nervous system and the resilience of your spirit.

Whether you're considering EMDR for yourself or curious about how it works as a therapeutic tool, this resource offers compassionate, accessible insight into this powerful modality. 🌿

Check it out at the link in our bio.

#EMDRTherapy #TraumaHealing #EmbodiedHealing #SomaticTherapy #NervousSystemHealing

Parts Work can sound complex - until suddenly it clicks 💡✨

Our free resource, "Demystifying Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy," breaks down this revolutionary approach into accessible, practical wisdom. Whether you're a therapist curious about adding this to your practice or someone seeking to understand your own inner landscape, this guide offers clear pathways into the world of parts work.

Discover the basics of Self-energy, learn to recognize common protective and exile parts, and understand how unburdening creates lasting transformation. This resource makes the sophisticated simplicity of parts work available to anyone ready to explore the multiplicity within.

Download this guide and begin your journey into the compassionate framework that's transforming how we understand healing. 🌱Link in bio!

#PartsWork #FreeResource #SelfCompassionJourney

Your body is always speaking - are you listening? 🧘‍♀️🌿

In this video, we offer a gentle practice designed to shift your energies and reset your nervous system. This isn't about perfect poses or flexibility - it's about using mindful movement to create dialogue with your body, release stored tension, and invite your system back into balance.

Each movement is an invitation to befriend your embodied experience, to notice where you hold stress, and to create space for emotions and sensations that want to move through you. Whether you're a seasoned yogi or completely new to movement practices, this session meets you exactly where you are.

Watch now at the link in our bio!

#TherapeuticYoga #NervousSystemReset #MindfulMovement #SomaticHealing #EmbodiedWisdom

Profound wisdom lives in the collective circle 🌕💫

Group Consultation offers fellow therapists a sacred container where we can learn from each other's experiences, hold space for complex cases, and remember that we don't have to navigate this challenging work alone. In the safety of community, we find both practical guidance and soul-level support.

These sessions honor the reality that healing work can feel isolating, and that sometimes the most valuable insights emerge when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable about our struggles, questions, and growing edges. Together, we explore clinical challenges while also tending to the personal impact of holding space for trauma.

This isn't just case consultation - it's a gathering of hearts committed to doing this work with integrity, compassion, and mutual support. 🙏Join our consultation circle: https://tinyurl.com/dt3a4n3b

#GroupConsultation #TherapistSupport #HealingCommunity #TherapistsOfInstagram #CollectiveWisdom

Your heart knows things your mind hasn't discovered yet 💗🌺

Our latest blog explores 5 Therapeutic Heart-Opening Practices that invite you to cultivate inner harmony through the wisdom of the heart. These aren't just metaphorical practices - they're embodied invitations to literally shift your nervous system state, access deeper compassion, and reconnect with your innate capacity for love.

From heart-centered breathing to compassion meditations, these practices offer pathways to soften the protective walls we've built and remember the tender strength that lives within. Whether you're a therapist seeking new tools or someone on your own healing journey, these practices meet you with gentleness and grace.

Discover how opening your heart can transform your relationship with yourself and others. 🌿

Tap the link in our bio to read more!

#HeartCentered #InnerHarmony #TherapeuticPractices #CompassionPractice #HealingFromWithin

Every part of you deserves a voice, a witness, and unconditional love 💚🗝️

“IFS Therapy Core Skills Certificate Training” offers comprehensive immersion into one of the most revolutionary approaches to healing: Internal Family Systems. This isn't just learning a technique - it's transforming how you understand the human psyche and your own capacity for compassion.

Through this certification, you'll gain deep fluency in working with parts, accessing Self-energy, facilitating unburdening, and creating the conditions for profound internal transformation. You'll learn to guide clients (and yourself) toward the Self-leadership that naturally emerges when all parts feel heard and honored.

This training changes therapists because it first changes how we relate to ourselves. When we befriend our own internal system, we naturally become better at holding space for others to do the same. 🌟

Remember: We don't fix parts - we simply help them find their way home to Self.
Ready to become a certified practitioner? Learn more at the link in my bio!

#CertificationTraining #SelfLeadership #TherapistTraining

Truly seeing yourself with love transforms everything 👁️💗

"Beholding the Self: A Guided Practice of Sacred Self-Perception" invites you into a transformative meditation that shifts how you relate to your own being. This isn't about positive affirmations or forced self-love - it's about the profound practice of witnessing yourself with the same compassion you'd offer a beloved friend.

Through gentle guidance, you'll explore the difference between beholding and judging, perceiving and critiquing, honoring the sacred wholeness that you already are. This practice can be especially powerful for those working with inner critic parts, shame, or the journey toward radical self-acceptance.

Remember: You are worthy of being beheld - not because of your accomplishments, but simply because you exist. ✨More at the link in my bio!

#SelfCompassion #GuidedMeditation #SacredSelfCare #InnerFriendship

Integration is where the magic truly happens 🔮✨

Our free resource, "10 Anchors for Integrative Unburdening," offers practical tools to support the sacred work of releasing patterns that no longer serve while integrating new ways of being. Whether you're working with Parts Work, EMDR, or other trauma modalities, these anchors help create stability during the profound shifts that healing brings.

Unburdening isn't just about letting go - it's about creating space for something new to emerge. These practices honor both the courage it takes to release old patterns and the tenderness required to welcome new possibilities.

Download this resource at the link in my bio and discover grounding techniques, reflection prompts, and embodied practices to support your (or your clients') integration journey. 🌿

#IntegrationWork #Unburdening #FreeResource #TraumaHealing

Your breath can bring you home when the world feels too much 🌬️🏡

Our newest guided meditation offers a gentle pathway back to your center through grounding and healing practices. In just a few minutes, you can shift from overwhelm to presence, from scattered to settled, from disconnected to deeply rooted in your own being.

This practice is designed for those moments when you need immediate support - before a challenging session, after difficult news, or simply when your nervous system needs reminding that it's safe to rest. No experience necessary, just a willingness to pause and return to yourself.

Remember: Grounding isn't about pushing away your feelings - it's about creating a stable foundation from which you can hold all of your experience. 🌱

Ready to come home to yourself? Check out the link in our bio.

#GuidedMeditation #GroundingPractice #NervousSystemHealing #Mindfulness #SelfCare

True support comes from being deeply seen by another soul 🌟💫

Soulfull Consultation offers a sacred space for therapists seeking guidance that honors both clinical expertise and intuitive wisdom. Whether you're navigating complex cases, exploring the integration of spiritual approaches in your practice, or simply needing to be held by someone who understands the profound responsibility of this work, these sessions create room for authentic dialogue.

This isn't traditional clinical supervision - it's a heart-centered collaboration that recognizes you as a whole person, not just a professional. Together, we'll explore the intersection of your therapeutic gifts, personal journey, and the sacred work of holding space for transformation.

Because true healing begins when healers themselves feel witnessed, supported, and celebrated in their own evolution. 🙏

It’s time to experience consultation that feeds your soul. Link in bio!

#TherapistSupport #ClinicalSupervision #SoulfulPractice #TherapistEvolution #HealerHealing

Emotional freedom lives in the practice of gentle return 🦋✨

Our latest blog explores the transformative journey of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), a modality that invites us to literally tap into our body's innate capacity for healing. Through simple, rhythmic movements on meridian points, EFT offers a bridge between ancient wisdom and modern trauma-informed care.

The power of EFT lies in its accessibility - clients can use these techniques independently, creating a sense of agency in their own healing process. From anxiety to trauma memories, from limiting beliefs to physical pain, EFT meets us where we are with compassion and curiosity.

Discover how this gentle practice can support your healing journey or enhance your therapeutic toolkit. 🌿

Read more at the link in our bio!

#EFTTapping #EmotionalFreedom #SelfHealing #TraumaInformed #HealingFromWithin

Precision and compassion both matter when wounds and complex patterns intertwine.

EMDR for Trauma and Addiction addresses one of the most challenging presentations in therapeutic work: clients whose trauma and substance use have become inseparably woven. This specialized training guides you through the delicate art of processing trauma while honoring the protective function that addiction has served.

You'll learn step-by-step protocols for safely navigating EMDR with dual diagnosis clients, creating containers strong enough for deep work while maintaining the stability necessary for recovery. This isn't about treating two separate conditions - it's about understanding the sacred wholeness that exists beneath both.

Remember: Addiction often represents the nervous system's best attempt at self-regulation. When we heal the underlying trauma, true recovery becomes possible. 🙏

Expand your capacity for this complex work at the link in my bio!

#EMDRTherapy #TraumaAndAddiction #DualDiagnosis #AddictionRecovery #TraumaInformed

The body remembers everything the mind tries to forget 🌊💫

Our Somatic Trauma Therapy Crash Course offers an intensive dive into the revolutionary understanding that trauma lives not just in our thoughts, but in our tissues, our breath, our posture, and our nervous system's dance between safety and survival.

In this transformative training, you'll discover how to work with the body's innate intelligence to facilitate healing that talk therapy alone cannot reach. From polyvagal-informed interventions to trauma-sensitive movement, you'll gain practical skills grounded in deep reverence for the wisdom of embodied experience.

Whether you're new to somatic approaches or seeking to deepen your body-based practice, this course offers a sacred bridge between clinical excellence and intuitive healing. 🙏

Because true healing begins when we honor the body as healer, not just container.

If you’re ready to transform your trauma practice, tap the link in my bio!

#SomaticTherapy #TraumaInformed #BodyWisdom #NervousSystemHealing #TherapeuticPractices

Understanding your inner multiplicity changes everything 🗝️✨

Our free resource "Benefits of Knowing Parts Work" offers clear, accessible insight into why working with parts has become such a transformative approach to healing. Whether you're a therapist exploring new modalities or someone curious about your own inner landscape, this guide illuminates the profound shifts that happen when we befriend our internal system.

Download this resource and begin seeing yourself (and your clients) through this compassionate, multiplicity-honoring lens. 🌿Link in bio!

#PartsWork #InnerMultiplicity #FreeResource #SelfCompassion

Healing can happen through the g#healingfromwithin
Clinical EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) combined with EMDR Tapping offers a revolutionary approach to trauma healing that honors both ancient wisdom and modern neuroscience. Through simple, rhythmic tapping on meridian points, you can help clients release stored trauma while maintaining a profound sense of safety and control.

This isn't just another technique to add to your practice–it's a doorway to understanding how the body-mind connection can facilitate deep healing through accessible, client-empowering interventions. Whether you're working with anxiety, PTSD, or complex trauma, EFT Tapping offers a gentle yet powerful pathway to freedom.

Remember: Sometimes the most profound healing happens through the simplest gestures. 🌿

Ready to discover the transformative power of tapping?

Tap the link in my bio to learn more!

#EFTTapping #EMDRTherapy #TraumaHealing #SomaticTherapy #HealingFromWithin

You've been showing up for others. Who's showing up for you??

This work asks so much of us. It asks us to hold steady in the presence of great pain, to remain curious when things feel impossibly complex, to offer presence and compassion even on the days when we're running on fumes.

My consultation groups exist to be that support. A place to process the harder sessions. To explore integrative approaches in a space of genuine collaboration. To be known and held as a healer, not just a clinician.

I'd love to have you in community: https://tinyurl.com/ysypshj2
#TherapistEvolution #SoulfulPractice #HealingCommunity #TherapistsOfInstagram #HeartCenteredHealing

In the midst of a dysregulated nervous system, the breath offers a thread back to the here and now.

Breathing speaks directly to the nervous system in a language it understands. Slow, intentional breath signals safety. It shifts the physiological state. It gives the body something true to anchor to.

Over on my blog, I explore the practice of breath-based grounding, offering both understanding and simple techniques you can use with clients or in your own daily practice.

Read it at the link in bio.

#SomaticHealing #MindBodySpirit #HealingFromWithin #TherapeuticPractices #SacredSelfCare

Some of the most powerful resourcing tools fit in the palm of your hand. Tapping techniques offer clients accessible, body-based ways to build internal resources, regulate their nervous systems, and anchor a sense of safety and calm. For many clients, tapping becomes the first experience of having genuine agency over how they feel, which is such a profound shift for someone whose nervous system has long felt out of their control.

“The Trauma-Focused Tapping Techniques” training through PESI offers over a dozen practical exercises you can begin using with clients right away.

Simple. Somatic. Genuinely healing. Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/nhhrxtfw

#TraumaInformed #SomaticHealing #TherapistEvolution #TherapeuticPractices #HealingFromWithin

What happens when two of the most powerful trauma modalities come together?

EMDR and parts work are each transformative on their own. EMDR works with the brain's capacity to process and integrate traumatic memories. Parts work illuminates the inner landscape of protective and wounded parts, creating the conditions for genuine healing from within. When practiced together the results can be profound.

“IFS-Informed EMDR Therapy” through Psychotherapy Networker offers a thoughtful, integrative framework for bringing these two modalities into meaningful conversation in your practice.

This is the kind of advanced integration that takes clinical work from effective to truly transformational.

Link in bio.

#EMDRTherapy #TherapistEvolution #TraumaInformed #SoulfulPractice

Let’s talk about complex trauma.

Unlike single-incident trauma, complex trauma develops over time, often in the context of relationships. It shapes not just what we remember, but who we believe we are. The way we attach. The way we protect ourselves. The parts of us that learned to disappear or perform in order to survive.

Understanding the nuances of complex trauma, its origins, its presentations, and its pathways to healing, is foundational for anyone working in the trauma space.

I've created a resource to support exactly that understanding, available for you to download freely. Whether you're deepening your clinical knowledge or orienting a client to their own experience, I hope it serves you.

Download at the link in bio.

#TraumaInformed #HealingFromWithin #TherapistEvolution #WholenessJourney #CompassionateTherapy

If you’re ready to experience parts work from the inside out, “The Ultimate IFS Therapy Crash Course” through PESI is the course you’re looking for: an immersive, comprehensive journey into the model that's transforming the way therapists understand and support the inner lives of their clients.

This therapy works because it doesn't ask parts to be different than they are. It asks us to get curious about them. To understand what they've been protecting. To offer them something they may never have received: genuine compassion.

Curious? Explore the details at the link in bio.

#TherapistEvolution #TraumaInformed #HeartCenteredHealing #TherapeuticPractices

If you've ever felt disconnected from yourself, like you're watching your life from the outside, you're not alone, and you're not "crazy."

Depersonalization and dissociation are among the most disorienting experiences a person can have. They're also among the most misunderstood, both by those who experience them and, sometimes, by the clinicians supporting them.

At their root, these experiences are the nervous system doing something incredibly intelligent: creating distance from something that felt unbearable. Understanding that changes everything.

In this video, I walk through what depersonalization and dissociation actually are, how they relate to trauma, and what begins to shift when we meet these experiences with compassion and understanding rather than fear. Link in bio.

#TraumaInformed #HealingFromWithin #MentalHealthMatters #SomaticHealing #HeartCenteredHealing

One of the questions I get most often about EMDR is: how does it actually work? And it's such a good question, because EMDR can feel almost mysterious and magical, especially when you witness the kinds of shifts clients experience in session.

The answer lies in the neuroscience of memory, trauma, and the brain's remarkable capacity for integration.

When traumatic memories are stored in a fragmented, emotionally charged way, they remain reactive, triggering the nervous system as if the event is still happening. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain process and integrate these memories so they can be held differently, without the same charge, the same grip.

I dive deep into this neuroscience over on my blog. Whether you're a clinician or a curious healer, I think you'll find it illuminating.

Link in bio.

#EMDRTherapy #TraumaInformed #MindBodySpirit #HealingFromWithin #TherapistEvolution

Transform your practice in just three days! ✨

The “3-Day Workshop on Internal Family Systems Therapy” with PESI is one of the most immersive opportunities available to clinicians who want to move beyond an introductory understanding of parts work and into truly applied, confident practice.

Covering the treatment of PTSD, complex trauma, and more, this workshop is designed for therapists who are ready to dive deep.

Check it out at the link in my bio!

#TherapistEvolution #TraumaInformed #TherapeuticPractices #HealingCommunity

Every person who walks into your office contains a whole inner world and parts work gives you a map.

This kind of therapy is built on a radical and compassionate premise: that we are all, at our core, made up of different parts, and that at the center of each of us exists a Self that is inherently wise, compassionate, and capable of healing. When we help clients access that Self and develop a new relationship with their protective and wounded parts, remarkable things become possible.

This “Introduction to IFS” through PESI covers the core principles, key skills, and clinical integration considerations you need to begin weaving this beautiful framework into your practice.

Learn more at the link in bio.

#TherapistEvolution #HeartCenteredHealing #TraumaInformed #SoulfulPractice

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