Tag: health
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Mourning Romantic Love
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The wound of past wishes for romantic love not being fulfilled is churning in my gut as anxiety and grief. I am in mourning for what I wanted but never received. Processing grief.
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Inheriting Contempt
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My parents left me with a wonderful gift: contempt. I recently realized that this is my default setting in life.It takes me a second to turn off my ego and respond from my core self.
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With CPTSD, the familiar can be wrong
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With CPTSD, the familiar can be wrong, and the scary experiences can be right. How do we distinguish the difference?
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The fragments of shifting from an old self to a new self
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The good phase of healing – from caterpillar to butterfly – the fragments of shifting from and old self to a new self
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The Spectrum of Dissociation
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From daydreaming to dissociative identity disorder, the spectrum of dissociation can be creative to destructive. And what is Structural Dissociation?
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Healing the extremes of trauma responses – the pendulation effect
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Healing the extremes of trauma responses – the pendulation effect. Reflecting on the ping-pong effect of trauma responses
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The Purpose of Catastrophizing
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Those with anxiety know this. Any given experience will undo us; if only we could control it, we would be ok. What if there is a purpose to catastrophizing?
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Meeting My Mother Wound
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Meeting my mother wound is giving me myself back. The abandoned child inside of you will scream until you feed it
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My favourite resources currently for healing trauma
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I’ve been knee-deep, healing my next layer of trauma, which is a deep one, and studying various sources of information. These are my favourite resources currently for healing trauma.
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It’s ok to not be the bigger person with a bully
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It’s okay to not be the bigger person; just don’t return that energy to the innocent. I talk about Gaza, Britney Spears, and people healing from abuse.