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Sharing – Healing from trauma requires holding two tracks
Gretchen is right; they don’t tell you this when you start doing healing work on your trauma, but it’s a skill you’re going to need:
But for most people healing from trauma, it’s not about going away to get better, it is about learning to stay. Stay with the part of you that is healing. And stay with the part of you doing your day-to-day life. Healing from trauma is about learning to hold both: your life in the present and your trauma history–all at the same time.
Links I’m Sharing (weekly) – May 31, 2020
Google Partners with NAMI To Create an Anxiety-Disorder Self-Assessment The Dangers of Well-Meaning Mental Health Advice We asked how to prevent suicides caused by the pandemic. This is what experts told us Helping Child Abuse Victims During COVID-19 To Kill The Culture of Silence Surrounding Male Sexual Abuse We Need the Voices of Male Advocates 36…
Sharing – How Affirming Your Intrinsic Worth Can Help Your Social Anxiety
The article below is about social anxiety, but I have always believed that this lack of intrinsic worth is something that also makes kids vulnerable to being groomed and abused. Think about how well these paragraphs describe a typical survivor as a child: “In our culture, the measure of success and acceptability is often based…
Link – How to Really Support a Loved One Who’s Struggling with Their Mental Illness
There is a lot of specific things mentioned in the article, but as always it all boils down to this: “Ultimately, the kindest thing we can do is what we’d do for any loved one struggling with anything: Be there. Be there to listen. Be there to sit with their pain. Be there to encourage…
Sharing – Suicides make up majority of gun deaths, but remain overlooked in gun violence debate
Trigger warning – discussion of suicide attempts. If you are struggling, please call 988 in the US or a helpline in your country. There is a lot of media coverage about guns in America, but this part is underrepresented in all of that coverage. Suicide is the leading cause of gun-related deaths in the United…
