Healing Forgotten and Repressed Trauma

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Healing Repressed and Forgotten Trauma. Emotional healing isn’t actually focusing on the past trauma events. Just confront your defense mechanisms. There are 3 elements of our experience of reality. At any and every moment we are experiencing these 3 things: Thoughts, emotions, and sensations. You’ve probably heard me talk a little about that already. So,…

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The Challenge of Authentic Self-Expression.

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The Challenge of Authentic Self-Expression. As you express yourself more fully, you’ll attract both praise and criticism for speaking your truth. Speak it anyway. Almost every single day, someone reaches out to tell me about the impact I’m having on them, immensely grateful and appreciative for the work I’m doing. Whether it’s someone from my…

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Logic Doesn’t Heal Trauma.

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Logic Doesn’t Heal Trauma Emotional pain is not subject to rationality. Trauma must be healed at a more abstract level. It’s true that your patterns and defense mechanisms are responses to trauma, and it’s true that there’s a level of logic connecting what happened in the past to the specific patterns you’re acting out now,…

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Feeling Suicidal? Please Read This.

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For Anyone Feeling Suicidal. An open letter to anyone who is in pain and feeling like they just don’t want to do this anymore. I’m really… truly sorry to hear that this is where you’re at. I have been suicidal myself. Genuinely. I was just recounting to some of my clients the night when I…

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Emotional Healing is NOT Intellectual.

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Emotional Healing Isn’t Intellectual. Healing unresolved emotions can be easy and you really don’t need to focus on the trauma that caused them. The secret to healing trauma is to recognize that your unresolved emotions are going to come up all the time, on their own. They present themselves to you as the inner tension…

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Stop Chasing and Analyzing Trauma.

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Stop Chasing and Analyzing Trauma. The unresolved emotional energy behind things like anxiety and PTSD isn’t stored in neat little packages. I was asked, on an instagram video, what questions one should ask themselves when they’re getting triggered in order to find the source of their pain, and how to purge the source of the…

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The 3 Elements of Anxiety.

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The Feedback Loop of Anxiety. The word ‘anxiety’ actually describes 3 separate symptoms and the subconscious cycle happening between them. For anyone struggling with anxiety:   If you’re looking to make huge shifts with this and start experiencing real relief in the next 5 days, I have a 5 day challenge that can help you…

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Struggling With Over-thinking and Worry?

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Struggling With Over-Thinking and Worry? If you can’t stop ruminating over problems, you’re stuck in a defense mechanism gone awry. Overthinking is a torturous cycle.     The thing with overthinking is that it’s our mind’s foolish way of trying to keep us safe, but it’s aiming at the wrong issue. The things you’re overthinking…

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The Subconscious Cycle Controlling Your Life.

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The Subconscious Cycle Controlling Your Life. There’s a looping defense mechanism between the 3 elements of oyur experience that’s keeping you stuck in fear. There is a subconscious cycle going on between your thoughts, emotions, and sensations that we need to take charge of. We resist our painful emotions and allow them to manipulate our…

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PTSD Changes in the Brain.

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PTSD Changes in the Brain. Does evidence of neurological difference mean that mental health problems are stricly physical and chemical? If you were to punch yourself over and over in the leg every day, there are (at least) 2 different things that you would notice beginning to happen:   1 – Your leg would begin…

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