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How I Wish Trauma Had Been Explained to Me
Healing will give you a lot that is good. It will help you reset the past. It will let you experience the past as something that is objectively over. It may help your immune system settle. Healing settles a lot of the old tax that you have had to pay to wake up each day in this world. It can give ease back to your breath and unheavy your chest. It
... See moreThomas Zimmerman • EMDR With Complex Trauma
If the trauma is severe enough, a person may lose the capacity to concentrate on necessary goals. If that happens, the self is no longer in control. If the impairment is very severe, consciousness becomes random, and the person “loses his mind”—the various symptoms of mental disease take over. In less severe cases the threatened self survives, but
... See moreMihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
A psychotechnology is anything that can alter your relationship with self, from mainstream talk therapy, to all kinds of meditation, to newfangled forms of therapy like IFS, etcetera. Different psychotechnologies will be more or less appropriate to a given individual. Some will be powerful in combination. There is no one “path,” although some tradi... See more
Sasha Chapin • How I Attained Persistent Self-Love, Or, I Demand Deep Okayness for Everyone
How I Attained Persistent Self-Love, Or, I Demand Deep Okayness for Everyone
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Processing, on the other hand, allows us to truly come to terms with our trauma and resolve it—to rewrite the memories in our brains with a healthier narrative.
Stephanie Foo • What My Bones Know
