Memoir:

Lived Experience Dissociation Workbook:

Ethical, Historical, & Cultural Issues

Coming 2026: Mirror Mapping

Mirror Mapping is the heart of our projects. It is a book that grew out of lived experience, clinical wisdom, and the quiet, persistent knowing that healing is never a straight line but a series of reflections, ruptures, and returns. It is a companion for those whose identities developed in the shadows of misattunement, whose attachment “mirrors” were cracked or missing entirely, and whose sense of self was shaped by survival rather than safety. In these pages, the reader is invited not merely to learn, but to remember how the body holds what the mind was forced to forget, to trace the echoes of relational trauma across the internal landscape, and to witness the ways dissociation protected what needed to endure.

This book does not offer simple answers, quick fixes, or prescriptive pathways. Instead, Mirror Mapping becomes a kind of sanctuary, a slow unfolding of understanding, where theory meets tenderness and neuroscience meets narrative. It brings together psychodynamic thought, attachment science, and the lived realities of dissociative systems, weaving them into a tapestry that honors the multiplicity of being human. Each chapter holds up a different mirror… some gentle, some uncomfortable, some breathtaking in their clarity, inviting the reader to explore the spaces within themselves that were never named, never validated, and never held.

Within EmmaS larger projects, this book serves as a foundation and a compass. It is the well from which courses, symposiums, conversations, and community offerings draw their depth and direction. It gives language to what has long been felt but rarely articulated: the grief of developmental trauma, the loops of shame that bind us to old systems, the longing for attunement, and the quiet courage required to step into the light with sticky, emerging wings. Above all, Mirror Mapping affirms that healing is not about erasing our fractures, but learning to see them as part of the mosaic of who we are and who we are discovering, in relationship and reflection.