Have you noticed that in your attempt to protect yourself from pain (caused by others)that now you feel even more “shutdown” and “frozen”? You have created your own prison and closed the door to your heart. The wall that you created to “protect Have you noticed that in your attempt to protect yourself from pain (caused by others)that now you feel even more “shutdown” and “frozen”? You have created your own prison and closed the door to your heart. The wall that you created to “protect you” is now hurting you as you are now closed off from “giving and receiving love”? you” is now hurting you as you are now closed off from “giving and receiving love”?
FEELING SAFE IN YOUR OWN BODY
As a trauma survivor it is so important to begin to feel safe in your body as when you experience trauma: which is anything so overwhelming that at the moment it is too frightening to process then the nervous system is holding the memories and feelings you could not process.. In an effort to protect yourself from feeling you may be in a shutdown or “frozen” state which makes it difficult for you to heal and become fully alive and safe in your body.
UNDERSTANDING THE TRAUMA RECOVERY PROCESS
PROTECTING YOURSELF FROM NARCISSISTIC ABUSE
BENEFITS OF REPARENTING YOURSELF
You may never have had a secure attachment as a child...which means at the critical periods where trust and security and nurturance are essential:you did not have what every baby and child desperately needs in order to feel safe and loved.Your primary caregiver may have been avoidant or ambivalent or disorganized and as a result you grew up feeling anxious or depressed and alone as well as believing the lie that you "are less than".
HOW FORGIVENESS HEALS
BREAKING THE TRAUMA\SELF HATRED CONNECTION
HEALING YOUR TRAUMATIC WOUNDS
HOW BOUNDARIES ARE FOR YOUR PROTECTION
TRAUMA AND CODEPENDENCY CONNECTION
If you are a trauma survivor with unresolved trauma reflected by having experienced a history of abuse, neglect and abandonment then it is important to understand how this deep wounding of your mind, body and spirit has affected you and how your woundedness is going to go with you when you are in a relationship.