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Shared Links (weekly) March 26, 2023
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Tips For Being In A Relationship When One Partner Experiences Depression
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5 Ways Multitasking Is Bad for Your Mental Health (and 4 Things to Do Instead)– Whether at work, or at home, we have all become multi-taskers. Realistically, our focus bounces back and forth between multiple things we aren’t doing well.
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Shared Links (weekly) March 19, 2023
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Learning to hold sorrow– “What I know for sure, after the work and conversations these past three weeks, is that we need to get better at holding, hearing, and healing sorrow.”
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Teens Know Why Mental Health Is Worsening, Now It’s Time to Listen
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5 Benefits of Solitude and Why You Need It for Your Mental Health– in a world that values productivity over everything, we lose the ability to simply be alone
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Shared Links (weekly) March, 12 2023
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How One Radio Station’s Focus On Mental Health Helped Listeners Around The World Feel Less Alone
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What is trauma bonding? Signs and how to break a trauma bond
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Why Young People Are Languishing– there are many reasons, and it’s complicated. It’s also a serious problem.
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Reviews Elsewhere – What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
“Here’s a theory: Maybe I had not really been broken this whole time. Maybe I had been a human—flawed and still growing but full of light nonetheless”
I want all of us to ponder that line for a little bit and think about it. Consider the possibility that you, as a survivor, are not broken. Maybe you are just human. Maybe everything you see as broken is just a natural reaction to abuse in the same way every human carries things forward into their lives from their past. That’s not to say the harm isn’t real. Indeed it is very much real. It might not, however, have changed the possibility of our light still being inside us.
You are still human and you still have value in this world.
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Sharing – Where Does Shame Come From?
Those who have suffered childhood trauma often have shame that we cannot place. Sometimes because our memories are foggy and we can’t place them, maybe more often because shame became part of us as we grew up. Our very development occurred in the middle of shame, so much so that we aren’t even aware of it.
It just is. It has always been and always will be.
Except that’s not correct at all.
