Tag: healing
Posted on February 12, 2018
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I have been trying to find an appropriate way to write about a particular “emotional” experience that I have endured for years. I wouldn’t blog about this were it not for the fact that most survivors of trauma seem to experience something quite similar. … Continue Reading “Healing Past Trauma in The Present”
Category: Healing, human trafficking, panic attacks, PTSD, therapy, traumaTags: biologically embedded trauma, essential oils in emotional healing, healing, PTSD, therapeutic process, trauma recovery
Posted on November 11, 2017
by MJ
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I have recently been reading a lot of material on the endocrine system and neurology. Why? Anatomy and Physiology II. Brain, brain, brain, brain. What I’ve learned, aside from more than I ever expected to know about hormones, is that distress of all kinds… Continue Reading “The Neuroscience behind Feeling Stuck”
Category: Complex PTSD, coping strategies, Healing, mental health, Moving Forward, personal development, Recovery, traits in victims, traumaTags: catastrophizing, habenula, healing, healing from PTSD, learned helplessness, neuroscience, outlier events, Storytelling Brain, Time Perspective Therapy, trauma, What if
Posted on September 17, 2017
by MJ
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I walked into my therapist’s office in March 2015 with a mind to figure out what was wrong with my marriage and, thereby, me. I told him that I knew something was happening to me that was probably not good, but, seeing that I… Continue Reading “How to Grow Up Again”
Category: Complex PTSD, Healing, mental health, therapyTags: emotional education, growing up again, healing, personal homework, recovery of hope, therapeutic process, therapy, therapy homework
Posted on March 16, 2017
by MJ
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I want to come at the idea of healing and recovery from a different direction. Please bear with me as I lay a foundation. I am in a traditional Chinese medical school program. Suffice it to say, this is not anything like the Western… Continue Reading “Deficiency and Excess Patterns”
Posted on September 19, 2016
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To begin to get a solid grasp of where I’m headed in terms of changing your narrative and healing yourself in experiential ways so that you can change your trajectory in tangible ways, I highly recommend that you watch this documentary on the brain–“Automatic… Continue Reading “Understand Your Brain, Understand Yourself”
Posted on July 28, 2016
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I’ve been editing old posts. It’s been a much bigger process than I expected what with over 200 posts and six years worth of material. I came across this post written in 2014, and it dovetailed so nicely with my latest post. Why… Continue Reading “The Persona Paradigm”
Category: Healing, mental health, Moving Forward, personal development, Recovery, therapyTags: encouragement, false self, healing, healing process, persona, persona vs. identity, therapy
Posted on July 26, 2016
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I have been attending therapy faithfully. I look forward to the day when I don’t require it any longer. At the same time, I encourage people to go. For some people, therapy is like an engine overhaul. For others, it’s like going in for… Continue Reading “Preparing to Transform”
Posted on September 3, 2015
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Therapy Tuesday was a big day in my world. It was moving day for my ex-husband. It was official. He was moving out. In some ways, it has all happened so fast. In other ways, it has not. I have been treading water for… Continue Reading “Asking For Help”
Category: divorce, Healing, personal development, traumaTags: asking for help, childhood trauma, divorce, ex-husband antics, friendships, healing, scarcity, self-reliance
Posted on August 7, 2015
by MJ
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If you, like me, would rather artificially inseminate a stallion than receive a compliment, then this article is for you. Here’s a quote: “…receiving praise from others when we feel negatively about ourselves elicits discomfort because it conflicts with our existing belief system. If… Continue Reading “Do You Like Receiving Compliments?”
Posted on December 5, 2014
by MJ
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I don’t know how many people are familiar with the idea of “generational sin”. There are many ministries in different streams of the Christian faith today that deal with myriad flavors of this idea. The foundation of this notion is that we are affected in… Continue Reading “Origin Stories”
Category: encouragement, Healing, Judaism, Moving Forward, RedemptionTags: a more powerful narrative, Conversos, Crypto-Jews, encouragement, Faith, healing, Jews of Iberian Peninsula, Judaism, narrative, origin stories, Sephardim, thriving