As absurd as this may sound, one of the most common sources of resistance to getting psychologically better that I encounter in my work, is the client's internal realisation that they have neglected themselves for at least as long as the time they were helplessly subject to abuse and attack. In other words, we resist getting better, because we...
Read MoreWhere you are in your life, no matter how diminished and small you may feel, your incompleteness is your authenticity. Just the very sense of longing in you is the voice of God speaking back to you, so start with your incompleteness, and when you feel your incompleteness, I hope you have some calluses on your hand from giving yourself a little...
Read MoreI have looked in several posts at some typical trauma behavioural and physiological responses, such as a weak lungs, risk-taking behaviours, reoccurring flash-backs or difficulty sleeping, or survival profiles such as those of the fight, flight, or freeze response, but below I want to extend our attention to something core to trauma: memory. This...
Read MoreWhen thinking of traumatic experiences we are often drawn to images of tragic car accidents, brutal war killings, or major natural disasters, but while these are undoubtedly traumatizing events, and induce shock traumas, trauma responses can be induced with as little as a child being lost in a supermarket. This is why, in trauma-specialist Dr....
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