Posted on September 25, 2018
by MJ
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I used to write a lot about trauma and the nature of it largely because I was in the middle of dealing with it. For me, I would try to get outside of my own traumas and inspect them as if I were looking…
Category: domestic abuse, domestic violence, encouragement, happiness, mental health, Moving Forward, personal development, PTSD, therapy, traits in victims, traumaTags: creating happiness, developing grit, getting triggered, healing from PTSD, love after divorce, personal development, resiliency, sense of foreshortened future, therapeutic process, trauma recovery
Posted on November 29, 2016
by MJ
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This idea came to mind yesterday as I was beginning to dread my next EMDR session. EMDR itself is fine. It’s the time in between sessions that I truly dislike. My brain has gone into hyperdrive, and traumatic memory after traumatic memory is pouring…
Category: Complex PTSD, encouragement, Healing, Moving Forward, personal development, therapy, traumaTags: cognitive distortions, EMDR, fear of abandonment, negative self-talk, positive self-talk, self-reliance, self-talk, sense of foreshortened future
Posted on November 4, 2016
by MJ
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Let’s talk about trauma for a moment. I’ve mentioned EMDR in other posts, but let’s really discuss it for clarity’s sake. What is EMDR? “Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a therapeutic approach that emphasizes the brain’s intrinsic information processing system and how…
Posted on January 24, 2016
by MJ
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I have been thinking about this idea of The Reboot, which I wrote about in my previous post. Clearly, I’m not entirely empty in my old noggin. I had an actual thought and pondered it, too! Have I ever felt like this before in…
Category: abuse in families, emotional abuse, Healing, mental health, personal development, Recovery, therapy, traits in victims, traumaTags: Complex PTSD, healing process, object permanence, PTSD, sense of foreshortened future, the traumatized brain, trauma
Posted on February 27, 2014
by MJ
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In my last post, I talked about learning to make plans for yourself in the context of possessing a sense of a foreshortened future. This can feel almost impossible if one has poor distress tolerance. Distress tolerance is very important when it comes to…
Category: abuse in families, anxiety, encouragement, mental health, Recovery, therapyTags: anxiety, coping strategies, distress tolerance, healing process, PTSD, sense of foreshortened future, trauma
Posted on February 20, 2014
by MJ
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I don’t know to whom I need to attribute this image. It’s one of those images that gets passed around Facebook and Pinterest, and everyone LIKES it. It feels inspirational. It seems like something one might hear at a political rally or in a…
Category: anxiety, Complex PTSD, encouragement, Healing, human trafficking, mental health, PTSDTags: financial problems and anxiety, healing process, human trafficking and PTSD, OCD, PTSD, sense of foreshortened future, trauma