One Word To Begin Healing Shame & Your Inner Child
Healing shame and the inner child inside of you can seem like an impossible task. Not just because the pain caused by shame cuts to your very soul, but also because most likely, you don’t want to admit you feel ashamed. Somehow, anxiety and fear have become more acceptable to …
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How Safe Connections Help Heal Complex PTSD from Childhood Trauma
What Is Complex PTSD? Most likely you have heard of PTSD, however, Complex PTSD might be a new term for you. So before I share how connections help heal complex PTSD, let’s look at what complex PTSD actually means. CPTSDFoundation.org defines CPTDS as follows, “Complex PTSD comes in response to …
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Childhood Trauma Survivors & Thanksgiving | One Compassionate and Helpful Tip
Childhood trauma survivors most likely remember Thanksgiving a bit differently than the happy, connected displays on TV commercials. While there might have been a turkey, pumpkin pie, and stuffing, there was also fear, yelling, anxiety and possibly abuse. Memories like these can cause childhood trauma survivors to feel anything but …
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How To Start Reparenting Your Inner Child & Why It’s Important
How can you be expected to “reparent your inner child” when you barley had a parent from whom to learn? Growing up in an abusive home as a child almost automatically suggests that while you might have had parents living in the household, most likely you were not “parented.” You …
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5 Positive Affirmations For Women In Recovery
No doubt, women in recovery know what it feels like to hate themselves and feel as though they are fighting an internal enemy everyday. Living like this makes the challenge of recovery even more of a struggle because working hard to heal a self you hate, hardly seems worth it. …
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How to Heal From Childhood Trauma – Just Get Back In Your Body
The question of how to heal from childhood trauma might seem to have a long involved overwhelming answer. Surprisingly, however, the answer, while having many layers, starts with a simple tool. Get back into your body. As a trauma and abuse survivor, you most likely unconsciously and automatically dissociated from …
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How to Overcome Anxiety from Childhood Trauma- One Helpful Hack
When it comes to healing from childhood trauma, anxiety, no doubt, rears it ugly head. And, might I add rightly so. Because your body is designed to keep you safe and because you grew up in an unsafe environment, your body stays on high alert so that you are aware …
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Healing From Childhood Trauma | Making Friends with Your Defenses
If there was a way to help you in healing from childhood trauma that didn’t involve making friends with your defenses, I’d be the first to offer it to you! Initially, recognizing my defenses was very difficult, but I realized that the first key to my overcoming abuse was to …
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How to Heal Shame from Abuse | 3 Simple Steps to Start Your Healing
Simply put, shame stinks (and that’s putting mildly.) In fact, I’d venture to say that it’s the worst, most horrible consequence of suffering from childhood trauma and abuse. Even worse, ignoring shame only exacerbates its power over us causing us to struggle more and more with increased anxiety and fear. …
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