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Link – How do you heal from parents who hurt you?
These sound so familiar to me as a survivor, and someone who has heard the stories of many other survivors, and adult children of alcoholics. “As a therapist, I’ve heard hundreds of stories of children, now adults, who suffered terribly at the hands of the very people who were supposed to care for them. And…
Link – Past Experience Shapes What We See More Than What We Are Looking At Now
I do believe the findings also support what we see with abuse survivors, trying to see current situations through the lens of what we learned earlier. “A key question in neurology is about how the brain perceives, for instance, that a tiger is nearby based on a glimpse of orange amid the jungle leaves. If…
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Sharing – People Don’t Outgrow the Effects of Childhood Trauma Just Because They Become Adults
When your experience tells you that something is going to hurt you, your brain will figure out how to avoid and survive it. It will naturally kick in. Again, you can learn to work around that, or maybe even ignore it, but expecting your brain to magically stop reacting is asking yourself to not be human.
Maybe instead of expecting that from yourself, or anyone, give your brain some credit for going into survival mode, for keeping you alive, and be gentle with yourself.
Even if you are in a situation where acting out of fear is silly, it’s OK to feel the fear.
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