Tagged With "trauma-warrior"
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Re: The Books That Helped Me Transition from Trauma to Triumph: A Book Review Series - "Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life"
Thank you, Teri, for this gift. Beautiful way to share your impressions and take-aways of the late Dr. Dyer's book. The analysis doesn't seem simplistic to me, but rather a distillation, as is poetry.
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Re: The Books That Helped Me Transition from Trauma to Triumph: A Book Review Series - "Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life"
That is true. And thanks for recognizing that. Important meaning to my soul narrowed down to a few words. I love the idea of distillation when it comes to deep concepts. Very cool! Thanks for that. Peace, Teri
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Re: The Books That Helped Me Transition from Trauma to Triumph: A Book Review Series – “Getting Past Your Past”
Teri, this book has been on my list for a while (along with a blue million other books ...). Thanks for the reminder to nudge it toward the top of the list. I'm an EMDR veteran too, and your descriptions of your experience with that therapy echo mine. I too can say I wouldn't be where I am today without it. I've undergone a few more sessions recently and it has not lost its power. It is also quite the trip. Every time I think, nothing is going to happen this session. And then ... boy, do...
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Re: The Healing Place Podcast - Gretchen Schmelzer, PhD: Journey Through Trauma
I knew that name sounded familiar! I subscribe to Dr. Schmelzer's e-newsletter. But I don't think I've ever heard her interviewed before. Thank you, Teri!
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Re: What Survivors of Complex Trauma Want You to Know [marieclaire.com.au]
I can't praise this article enough. The survivor perspective is so valuable and gets far too little attention. And a knot is exactly what complex trauma feels and behaves like. Thanks for posting this here, Rafael.
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Re: The Healing Place Podcast - Gretchen Schmelzer, PhD: Journey Through Trauma
Such an insightful interview! Thanks for tuning in, Laura 😁
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Re: The Books That Helped Me Transition from Trauma to Triumph: A Book Review Series – “Getting Past Your Past”
I totally relate to your "along with a blue million other books" How wonderful you found EMDR and it helped you along your healing journey. And, wow, yes, those session where I would go in thinking everything was calm in my world then . . . BAM . . . I'd walk out thinking, "Where the hell did THAT come from?" But, so glad those aha moments would surface and I could process them and release that negative energy. Cathartic in so many ways. Thanks again for posting the obit for Dr. Shapiro. I...
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Re: What Survivors of Complex Trauma Want You to Know [marieclaire.com.au]
I like that she mentions dissociation. I have been going to therapy for over 30 years and really had no idea about dissociation. I though it was something you could put a verbal memory to or just spacing out for a bit..... but dissociation is so much more. I don't think that childhood trauma can be healed until the treatment people all come to understand a whole lot more about dissociation and about how much of the symptoms of complex PTSD are really not accessible to the conscious mind.
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Re: The Soulful Journey of Recovery is out TODAY!!!
Tian, congratulations on your new book! And thanks so much for letting us know about it here. I know there are many here who will be very excited to know you've published this and will benefit greatly from what the book offers. I know a few ACAs that I will share it with.
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Re: The Soulful Journey of Recovery is out TODAY!!!
Thank you so much Laura, I follow the ACE's Connection closely and recommend it to many....it is just a wonderful service and community, I am so glad that Carey introduced me to your community! Well done!
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Re: The Soulful Journey of Recovery is out TODAY!!!
Thanks, Tian. We're glad you have joined us.
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Re: To Heal From Trauma, You Have to Feel Your Feelings [psychologytoday.com]
Getting a great share response to this article after sharing it on my podcast Facebook page. Thanks for sharing here!
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Re: The Healing Place Podcast - Shenandoah Chefalo: Garbage Bag Suitcase
Ah, yes -- I have heard of Chefalo's memoir Garbage Bag Suitcase. I love hearing about people who've sublimated their experience with childhood trauma into work that helps others. Looking forward to listening!
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Re: The Healing Place Podcast - Louise Godbold: Echo
I think I've said this before here, Teri, but one thing I love about your podcast is it highlights how MANY people there are doing such awesome work pertaining to preventing and healing ACEs, including many folks who are active on this site. It give me great hope for the future.
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Re: CPTSD and Procrastination: Healing the Feeling of Paralysis (Resilience Series)
Anna, I think my favorite thing about your articles/videos is that as a childhood trauma survivor, they usually make me feel so SEEN (in a good way) and understood. Validated, even. Anyone else? As for procrastinating, I wonder about the role of not being in touch with who you are and what you want or need might play here. The part of us that provides the feedback that tells us who we are and what we need is often shut down or at least somewhat fogged by what we experienced. Thanks, as...
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Re: The Healing Place Podcast - Shenandoah Chefalo: Garbage Bag Suitcase
Sorry for the delay in responding . . . I was enjoying a 9 day break at the beach on the Carolina coast! I, too, find it inspirational and heartwarming to know so many are using their triumph over trauma to guide others. A beautiful testament to becoming empowered. Thanks for listening in to the show and offering feedback. Makes my heart smile! Peace, Teri
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Re: The Healing Place Podcast - Louise Godbold: Echo
Thank you, thank you! I feel blessed to have this beautiful community at ACEs Connection where I have crossed paths with so many incredible souls doing healing work in the world. I continue to be amazed by their wisdom, determination, and brilliance. Truly. I, too, have great hope for a trauma sensitive world. Peace, Teri
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Re: How Trauma Therapy Cultivated My Recovery
Beautiful and brilliant. Thank you for sharing. I wish you continued resolution and growing tranquility as you move along your healing journey. Peace, Teri
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Re: How Trauma Therapy Cultivated My Recovery
This is such an impressive account of overcoming trauma and addiction, and to boot it's educational and informative. Your story is a model of how one can transform painful experience into something that benefits others who are recovering from their own trauma. Thanks for posting, Tricia.
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Re: CPTSD Confusion: How to Get Clarity in All Your Relationships (Resilience Series)
Yep. When growing up the adults around you are all "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" or you just don't know your experience isn't healthy because it's the only one you know, that inability to gauge just what's going on and what it all means can dog one for life. Thanks for another insightful post, Anna.
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Re: Trauma, Attachment, and Relationships
Thanks for sharing this study here, Julie. It seems that one's attachment style can influence one's well-being enormously -- maybe as much as if not more than one's ACEs score. It's good news that therapists can play a part in helping those with anxious or avoidant attachment develop the type of relationship essential to improving their other relationships and recover from PTSD.
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Re: 15 Common Signs of Unresolved Trauma [healthyplace.com]
Thanks, Laura, for all you do and for this post in 2016 and repost now. Hugs! C.
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Re: 15 Common Signs of Unresolved Trauma [healthyplace.com]
Hi, what do you know the truth about Neurofeedback treatment...is this like snake oil? claims to cure all? Just wondering. Thanks, Ron C
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Re: 15 Common Signs of Unresolved Trauma [healthyplace.com]
Hi Ron, I have not experienced it, wanted to try it, but was told my traumatic brain injuries from years past would interfere. But a few friends of mine did experience it and gave me favorable reviews. & these were friends who had suffered horrible abuse as children. Take care, Michael
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Re: Thoughts to share & Compassion for yourself
It's a big subject with me - thank you! I would also add the wonderful podcast wherein Gene Monterastelli talks about giving ourselves permissions to be easy and gentle with ourselves. Check it out if that sounds like your cuppa tea: https://tappingqanda.com/2020/...rite-tapping-phrase/
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Re: Thoughts to share & Compassion for yourself
Thanks Jondi! Great EFT resource to share and yes to this - “I give myself permission to be easy and gentle with myself.” Take care, Michael
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Re: Self Soothing Strategies for Parents and Kids
Awesome! Sharing on The Healing Place Podcast Facebook page. Excited to edit and publish our interview next week.
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Re: Self Soothing Strategies for Parents and Kids
Joyelle, these are great ideas. I love that they are the sorts of things that parents and children can do either together OR alone, especially once the parents have taught the children these strategies and modeled their use. It's so helpful to recognize that for trauma survivors, often when they are feeling stressed it's caused by or exacerbated by an ingrained reaction originating in early trauma, and the key to overcoming that is in the body. Thank you for sharing these ideas here (I was...
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Re: Free Webinars Teach You to Calm Brain Dysregulation From Childhood PTSD
Thanks for letting us know, Anna!
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Re: Helping Someone with PTSD: Helping a Loved One While Taking Care of Yourself (www.helpguide.org/)
Thank you for posting this! Thought you might like this article I wrote as well - https://brickelandassociates.c...vivor-relationships/
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Re: Helping Someone with PTSD: Helping a Loved One While Taking Care of Yourself (www.helpguide.org/)
Alfredo, this guide is so well done. It deserves to be shared widely. It seems that some of the tips, such as avoiding taking a blithe attitude toward someone's traumatic experience and stopping the person from talking about their feelings, could go far in preventing PTSD in the first place (in people who haven't already developed it, that is). Thanks for posting this here.
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Re: Helping Someone with PTSD: Helping a Loved One While Taking Care of Yourself (www.helpguide.org/)
The guide is EXCELLENT! Thank you to the creators and publishers and to Alfredo for sharing here. I am indebted.
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Re: Helping Someone with PTSD: Helping a Loved One While Taking Care of Yourself (www.helpguide.org/)
Thanks for sharing your article, Robyn. I always learn so much from your articles. And this information is helpful not only for the loved ones of trauma survivors, but, in my experience, also for the trauma survivors themselves. I don't know about anyone else, but sometimes I need a reminder that many of the difficulties I experience because of a history of trauma are deserving of some compassion and patience -- from myself.
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Re: Why Trauma Survivors Can't Just "Let It Go" [themighty.com]
Thanks Laura, great article. No, it's certainly not about "getting over it." Contrary to what the author said, though, I've never read any books that suggest that. But I realize that mainstream thinking supports the "get over it" mentality. I just read an article that said, on average, trauma survivors—especially those with C-PTSD—require l0 years or more of (effective) therapy. That certainly fits with what I've experienced in my psychotherapy practice and for me when I, too, was in...
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Re: Why Trauma Survivors Can't Just "Let It Go" [themighty.com]
Laura: Thanks for the share. I appreciate the reminder as well! Cissy
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Re: Why Trauma Survivors Can't Just "Let It Go" [themighty.com]
Oh. My. Goodness. You have no idea how this article rocked my world this past week. So I have this pesky little highway phobia I have yet to conquer. Emphasis on YET. After 4 years and 98 sessions with EMDR, we never did find the trigger memory. There I was in Denver this past week, having flown in on only half a Xanax (I usually require multiple Xanax starting the day before a flight), in my son's car as he drove down a crazy packed highway in downtown rush hour traffic. I tried every...
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Re: Why Trauma Survivors Can't Just "Let It Go" [themighty.com]
Not sure I've run across that sentiment in any books I've read, but it is definitely a favorite in the mainstream--I see it on social media constantly, and it irks me every time (well-intended though I think the suggestion usually is). I see it as part of the "toxic positivity" trend currently in full-swing. That is a sobering statistic -- 10+ years. C-PTSD does not go down easy. It's stubborn and hard to root out from the nooks and crannies of our brains. There is no mere "letting go" of...
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Re: Why Trauma Survivors Can't Just "Let It Go" [themighty.com]
Wow! This is such a beautiful thing to read (not the part about the intractable highway phobia, of course ). You just never know what is going to come along out of the clear blue and give you the boost you need to overcome -- of course, you have been priming that pump for a long time with all that good, diligent self-care. I am thrilled to hear that you avoided a panic attack and flew Xanax-free (and that maybe this post played a role in that). In fact, as someone who's motto is "Xanax --...
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Re: Why Trauma Survivors Can't Just "Let It Go" [themighty.com]
This made my day! Thank you 😁 Your flying motto made me laugh out loud as it has been mine, as well, for thirty-something years. As a matter of fact, when I traveled to Mexico a few years ago with a group of 8 friends, they dubbed me Captain Xanax on the plane 😂 I'm such a fan of being drug-free though that I try my best to overcome without medication. Just my own personal goal.
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Re: Secondary Traumatic Stress for Educators: Understanding and Mitigating the Effects [KQED]
Thanks for posting this here, Mai Le. As our society becomes more trauma-aware/informed and as more of us take on the role of supporting children and others who've experienced trauma, it's imperative we have a plan in place to support those at risk of secondary trauma, or we will have a whole other problem on our hands that could contribute to perpetuating the trauma cycle. Glad to see you also shared this in the ACEs in Education community too!
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Re: We Need to Help More Trauma Survivors Value Self-Care (44 min podcast)
I enjoyed this "drill-down" into how hard it can be for trauma survivors to recognize their need for self-care and to practice it. It's so common for folks with a history of trauma to minimize their experiences and their effects -- it's part of survival, and it tends to be part of the family culture that allows certain types of abuse to persist. I liked what you had to say about how sometimes self-care can be as simple as using your favorite hand lotion--that self-care is about what feels...
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Re: Trauma & Resilience in Children's Literature [1:32:19 run time]
A transcript of this video is available here .
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Re: Flashback Halting Guide: 10 Tips to Halt Flashbacks for Yourself or a Loved One
These tips are so simple that anyone can use them almost anywhere. And I really like the brief descriptions of what flashbacks are and how they manifest -- I learned a lot in the list alone! Such a helpful post. Thank you for sharing it here, Robyn!
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Re: 5 Tips to Get You Through the Kavanaugh Investigation (No Matter What Are Your Politics)
Great tips for actions anyone can take just about any time to relieve stress and process difficult emotions. These sound like good habits to develop so we always have a way to help calm ourselves no matter what is happening in our world. Thank you, Hilary.
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Re: I Experienced Trauma — Here Are The Wellness Practices I Rely On To Cope [mindbodygreen.com]
Excellent! And oh-so-true recommendations. I love the idea of learning to be in my body as I have started utilizing dance again as a means to release energy and connect to my physical being. Thanks for this. Peace, Teri
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Re: Tell Me Who You Trust the Most
I think many people who've experienced childhood trauma would recognize this piece as a heartbreakingly accurate depiction of how trauma's effects play out in a child's daily life. I believe this could also serve to help those who haven't experienced it, and even those who may be skeptical of the depth of childhood trauma's impact, to understand. Thank you, Carol.
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Re: Tell Me Who You Trust the Most
Wow. I saw myself in some of that and my little sister (now age 49 and not so little, but my memories flashed to little Katie) in other bits. I am going to share this on my podcast Facebook page. Beautiful. Peace, Teri
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Re: Tell Me Who You Trust the Most
Thank you Teri! The post was inspired by my five children and most especially my 9-year-old son. It is really quite bittersweet to hear how much it resonates. ~ Carol
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Re: Tell Me Who You Trust the Most
Wow, Carol, that was a viscerally accurate description of what most of us survivors of child abuse go through. How to trust? Whom to trust? That gnawing and desperate need for connection wrecks our every interaction in adulthood.