Paige VanderSloot, MS, LMFT, CST, DMQ Founder of Awaken Center for Healing patriarchal wound in men Most men have never learned to understand themselves in this way. Instead, they learn to perform, achieve, provide, and endure—often without recognizing the internal cost of that conditioning. It is the patriarchal wound in men. From a young age,…
Paige VanderSloot, MS, LMFT, CST, DMQ Founder of Awaken Center for Healing Many women carry a wound that often goes unnamed. It lives beneath relationships, within the body, and inside deeply held beliefs about love, safety, power, and provision. It shapes how a woman moves through the world—how she trusts, softens, protects herself, and allows…
Paige VanderSloot, MS, LMFT, CST, DMQ Founder of Awaken Center for Healing Many men do not think of themselves as having a “mother wound.” They may recognize relationship struggles, emotional distance, or difficulty with vulnerability. However, they rarely trace these patterns back to their earliest relationship with a mother or primary caregiver. Yet this early…
Paige VanderSloot, MS, LMFT, CST, DMQ Founder of Awaken Center for Healing What Is the Mother Wound? The mother wound transcends the specific actions or omissions of a parent. It is the psychological and relational imprint established through your foundational bond with the feminine—the primary experience of being seen, received, and understood. This imprint can…
7 Rooted Truths About Low Sexual Desire—and What You Can Actually Do Paige VanderSloot, MS, LMFT, CST, DMQ Founder of Awaken Center for Healing You might be here because something feels off. You feel unwanted. Maybe even unloved. “She never initiates.”“She’s always too tired.”“I only get touched when she thinks I want sex.”“I miss feeling…
Reclaiming Wellness Through Simplicity, Sovereignty, and Spirit, Paige VanderSloot, MS, LMFT, CST, DMQ Founder of Awaken Center for Healing Sometimes healing starts to feel complicated. Another protocol, another supplement, another system to fix what feels off. And while those supports can have their place, they can also pull us further away from what is most…
Paige VanderSloot, MS, LMFT, CST, DMQ, Founder of Awaken Center for Healing You are not broken. If desire has gone quiet, if your body feels far away, if you flinch at your partner’s touch or feel like sex is just another thing on your to-do list, you are not alone. More importantly, you are not…
My name is Paige, and I’m many things—therapist, mother, mystic, Doctor of Medical Qigong, trauma alchemist, guide, survivor. But none of those roles truly define me. This is my story and the path that led me to offer trauma healing therapy in Alpine, Utah. What defines me is the path I’ve walked.What shapes my work…