Hello trauma warriors! My name is Jaena and I am a workaholic. If you read my last Heal-Along, you know that I am also a reformed book hoarder. Both addictions developed in 1996 when I was twenty-two years old. That’s when I started “recovering” from my depersonalization period (Trauma Glossary 2). I felt so fatally …
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Hello trauma warriors! My name is Jaena and I run this site. I am also a reformed book hoarder. I started my “collection” in 1996 and it swiftly consumed my life. It wouldn’t be until 2019 when I would take control of it, removing forty-six boxes of books from my home and donating them to …
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My case study of the trauma bond are my own experiences with those years. Hopefully, it will provide additional insights into the mind of the abused child. The past three weeks, my group has helped me write the trilogy of articles for raising awareness on abused children. They gave their testimonials for how to spot …
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This heal-along is a companion to my article on the benefits of Sadness and Grief. Ironically, it’s a bit of a sequel to my last heal-along, where I shared the story of my year of rage flashbacks and how they helped me rewire my self-abandonment (Trauma Glossary 2) programming. What happened on New Year’s Eve …
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I’ve mentioned the Father’s Day rap that I wrote and performed which helped me master my rage flashbacks. It still serves as a great example of what creativity can do for our healing. But something never occurred to me until writing Anger and the Fight Response. That painful flashback year was acting as shock therapy …
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Fight-Freeze is one difficult shell to crack, but not impossible. Just ask that infamous character from Charles Dickens’s classic, A Christmas Carol. Ebenezer Scrooge was a Fight-Freeze trauma type with an intense attachment disorder. Yet he processed his trauma and retrieved the best parts of himself in a single night. While overnight healing happens only …
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Think of the hippocampus as your brain’s hard drive. It’s your memory storage that needs daily disk-defragmenting and updates in order to experience new learning. The problem is that it still operates from primitive times, when surviving hinged on recalling bad experiences over the good. It’s for this reason we have Primitive Man as our …
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