As I mentioned in my last post, l learned more about anxiety through my experience with a medication that was to help me. It is taking longer than I would like to recover totally. My body adjusted to the meditation…
Shame is part of the trauma experience. It says something is wrong with me. Guilt is when I did something wrong. Shame is I am the wrong. Shame is deep, dark and lays over our spirit. It affects our personalities,…
Fear of success and failure are the same coin, flip sides. One side says I am terrified of failing, the other of succeeding. The bottom line? The fear trauma put in us. This fear causes low self-esteem and how we…
“Why am I here? Why am I even alive? I get up. Go to work. Go home. Take care of the family. Then do it all over again. Is there more to me? Is there more to life? I feel…
I am having one of those days when no matter what I try to do, it doesn’t work, and I don’t have everything I need, or just plain blocked. I have so much to do, my desk is piled, and…
The last step in this series is how to treat yourself while healing. When traumatized, we are hurt, condemned, isolated, rejected, scapegoated, not loved, not cared about, abandoned, betrayed, etc. Now it is time for us to treat ourselves differently,…
Be patient with yourself. I’m not healing fast enough! I will never get there! I keep messing up! It’s not working! Why can’t I do anything right? How long does it take to heal?! I hear these are common questions…
Use healthy techniques that do not re-victimize you. In my profession, there are many techniques, approaches, theories, models, etc. They are not all safe. In the previous post, I encouraged you to check out therapists carefully. The same goes for…