Bilingual Trauma Therapy

REMOVING THE WALL AROUND YOUR HEART

 REMOVING  THE WALL AROUND YOUR HEART

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

                   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.

BENEFITS OF REPARENTING YOURSELF

 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".