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Lisa King, LPC
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Join date: Oct 12, 2025
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Lisa King is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). Her life's journey, spanning time living overseas in places like Taiwan and Costa Rica and her own experience healing from trauma, has shaped her into the therapist she is today: honest, direct, compassionate and unwavering in teaching and upholding healthy boundaries.
Lisa founded Formosa Wellness on a core belief: that every one of us possesses a unique and beautiful core, or a "beautiful island," within. Formosa is the historic name for Taiwan, meaning beautiful island, a place that profoundly shaped her upbringing. Lisa is dedicated to helping individuals who have been touched by trauma recover their true authentic selves.
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Jan 9, 2026 ∙ 4 min
Riding the Waves: Understanding the Window of Tolerance, Hyperarousal, and Hypoarousal
Life is rarely a flat line. We all experience ups and downs, moments of stress, and periods of calm. But for many, especially those who have experienced trauma or chronic stress, these fluctuations can feel less like gentle waves and more like a chaotic storm. To understand why we react the way we do—and how to find balance—we look to the concept of the Window of Tolerance , a term coined by Dr. Dan Siegel. This framework helps explain how our nervous system functions and why we sometimes...
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Jan 9, 2026 ∙ 4 min
Why Complex Trauma Creates Extreme Thinking (And Why You Can't Just "Think" Your Way Out of It)
If you have experienced complex trauma (C-PTSD), particularly in childhood, your internal world might often feel like a pendulum swinging between extremes. People are either safe or dangerous. You are either a perfectionist success or a total failure. A situation is either "always" like this or "never" going to change. This creates a rigid, high-contrast filter over reality known as polarized thinking or black-and-white thinking . While this way of thinking is often labeled as a cognitive...
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Jan 7, 2026 ∙ 4 min
The Long Game: Why Respect Matters More Than Obedience
In the heat of a parenting moment—perhaps a toddler meltdown in the frozen food aisle or a teenager slamming a door—our instinct often craves one thing: Obedience. We want the noise to stop, the behavior to change, and the calm to be restored now. But if we pause to look at the architecture of our parenting, we have to ask ourselves a difficult question: Are we raising children to be compliant, or are we raising them to be respectful? These two concepts are often used interchangeably, but...
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