Chances are, you’ve heard of the confrontation letter you never send or venting out your frustrations to an empty chair. What do they have in common? They are both old school methods for “telling off” the person who hurt you when confronting them in person is pointless. They are a means of gaining both closure …
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The two most effective treatments for CPTSD are EMDR and Somatic Work. What do the two have in common? Both are part of the Bottom-Up Therapies which are new and innovative methods for treating trauma. They help us contradict or master how we felt in our original trauma as we are processing what happened to …
Somatic Work for Flashback Management: It’s Better Than EMDR Read More »
A visual guide through two weeks’ worth of articles. Using both Radical Acceptance and Poised Readiness. This is how we can escape the ripple effect of soul death and break free from the vicious cycle. An overview of vocabulary words from Poised Readiness: How to Defeat Procrastination in 5 Steps. Both Learned Helplessness and Shame …
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In my Frederick Douglass comic book, we were introduced to Poised Readiness and how it can resurrect us from soul death, itself. Poised Readiness acts as a bridge between Radical Acceptance and developing resiliency. It does so by reframing our thoughts against the vicious cycle of the “3” P’s, or procrastinating habits (covered in last …
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My last soul death at age 21 remained unresolved. Therefore, as trauma’s golden rule dictates: it gets us stuck. I was stuck in the vicious cycle of Procrastination, known as the “3 P’s” for the vast majority of my adult life. In my Frederick Douglass comic book, we explored ways of resolving our trauma to …
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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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Hello Trauma Warriors! How many of you suffered from soul death at least once in your childhood? I know I have. So did Frederick Douglass and yet he still became one of the most important men in American history. His story of how he defeated soul death remains the most empowering story I have ever …
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Hello Trauma Warriors! Last week I made two promises to you. In Wednesday’s article, when I talked about the value of recording positive feedback, I promised to fully share the best affirmation I had given myself. On Friday, when I showed you how my creativity developed out of vision boards, I left you with a …
Previously, in Jaena’s World: The Prequel to My History Comics Read More »
The real magic happens once you’re closing out your bullet journal (or “bujo” as it’s often touted) with your 90 day reflections. You’re re-experiencing all of your positive confirmations simply by the process of remembering them. Fresh patterns will emerge where you had never before connected the dots. This is why your “cycle down” month …
Reflections x 3 Bullet Journal: Your Cycle Down Month and Why it’s Important Read More »
I walked you through the five basic steps for setting up your bullet journal. Now I will introduce you to some tools that you may (or not) want to include for getting even more growth out of your 90 days. These have all worked for me and I will walk you through why with guided …
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