TRAUMA AND LONELINESS CONTINUED
As my healing journey continued, life presented more and more challenges that took me to my intense, deep loneliness. Here is the next part: At one point in my life I went through a very painful situation in my life…
TRAUMA & LONELINESS
This blog starts discussion on loneliness and surviving and transcending trauma. I hope it helps and please let me know your thoughts and feelings. TRAUMA AND LONELINESS I am sitting on my bed and feeling sorry for myself, playing spider…
BITTERNESS – HOW DO I COPE?
When we are bitter, it affects our all our lives – thinking, feeling, speaking, behavior, and all our relationships. This is because of the pain and hurt inside of us. Sometimes we will even feel it in our physical bodies…
BITTERNESS – OUR LIVES & OTHERS LIVES
We have talked a lot about bitterness because it can take over our lives so much if we do not decide to approach our pain and hurt in a healthier way. Pain and hurt are usually the feelings under anger….
BITTERNESS – THE CRITICALNESS
What is looks and sounds like: “I don’t want to be like this, I want to be me, I am not mean I am really a nice person. But I hate everyone and everything. I want to be different,…
BITTERNESS – THE HURT
Bitterness comes from pain, agony, hurt, sorrow, shame, etc. that we turn it into anger that comes from being traumatized. I am going to share my journey of dealing with bitterness from my journals during a very traumatic time my…
FORGIVENESS OR BITTERNESS?
When I or others are struggling with forgiving others who have hurt us, there is a process we go through which leads us to a important choice. Are we going to forgive and get better? Better, that is, to choose…
FORGIVENESS – SO IMPORTANT
Forgiveness, we have to do it, no getting around it if we want to heal. Just what is forgiveness? There is a lot of misinformation about it so here is what I have learned from my many years working with…
Trauma isn’t something that happens and is over. It stays in our bodies until we deal with its pain and consequences. First lets look at trauma. So what is trauma? Here is some information we now know about trauma and its…
TRAUMA HEALING PROCESS
The healing from trauma process is intense and takes time. It takes a determined, strong commitment to ourselves that says we will get whatever help we need and do whatever it takes to heal. Usually we make that decision when…