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Boundaries on Social Media: How to Protect Your Privacy, Relationships, and Mental Health

By Irina Leave a Comment

Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused
– Eurythmics

How much time do you spend on social media each day? Minutes, hours? Do you even bother counting?


Your smartphone is within reach, even when you're in the bathroom or with your family.

Boundaries on Social Media
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Filed Under: Boundaries Tagged With: Boundaries, emotional abuse, Emotional support, Mental health, Productivity, Relationships, Safety online, Social media, Toxic relationships

How to Heal from a Toxic Relationship with Your Mother

By Irina 2 Comments

The Ultimate Guide for Daughters

“Sure, Mom… me too. See you soon.” 

Sigh…

You hang up the phone and a tsunami of anxiety sweeps over you. 

You look around, and the cosy kitchen feels suddenly distant and unreal, as if you’re looking through a dirty glass. So does your hand, still clutching the phone – is it even your hand?  

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Filed Under: Abuse, Dysfunctional mothers an their daughters, Dysfunctional mothers and daughters relationship, Emotional Trauma, Family Tagged With: Abusive mother, Adult children, Anxiety, Childhood trauma, Developmental trauma, emotional abuse, Family, Happiness, Healing childhood trauma, Healing from developmental trauma, Inspirational, Joy, Life lessons, Motivational, Personal growth, Relationships, Self-care, Self-growth, Self-help, Toxic mothers

Dementia: An Unexpected Gift Of Love

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Light isn't lost forever“Nobody’s perfect. We’re all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.” ― Jeanette Walls

Do you believe a person can change? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Forgiveness, Love Tagged With: Abusive mother, Adult children, Childhood trauma, Developmental trauma, emotional abuse, Family, Healing childhood wounds, Healing from developmental trauma, Insights, Life lessons, Love, Self-improvement, Spiritual

How to Befriend Your Brain and Learn to Live with Joy

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Nurture your brainYour brain is more unique than your fingerprints, remember?

It builds new connections between brain cells your entire life. Then it weaves them into networks, constructing and reconstructing itself.

Sometimes it overreacts, making lightning-fast decisions based on obsolete data. The past becomes suddenly the present, and once more the pain overwhelms you, as if that horrible event was happening right now. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Choose Joy, Traumatized brain Tagged With: Brain, Child abuse, Childhood trauma, Choose joy, Developmental trauma, emotional abuse, Healing childhood trauma, Healing childhood wounds, Healing from developmental trauma, Health, Insights, Joy, Motivational, Neuroscience, Self-care, Self-help

Why Should You Trust Your Gut Feeling?

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Intuition, Gut feelingDo you trust your gut?

Intuition is another name for the feeling we describe as a slight stomach ache or a swirl of energy in a belly. It can also feel like soft prickles or velvety butterflies under your solar plexus.

What is your gut feeling like? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Gut feeling, Intuition Tagged With: Adult children, Brain, Developmental trauma, emotional abuse, Gut-feeling, Happiness, Healing childhood trauma, Healing from developmental trauma, Intuition, Self-care, Self-help, Self-love, Trauma recovery

Why You Should Care About Polyvagal Theory

By Irina Leave a Comment

Polyvagal theory Dr. Stephen PorgesDo you like watching National Geographic?

Then you have seen animals playing dead in order to stay alive.

They drop down and freeze until the danger is over. Not the usual fight or flight reaction, wouldn’t you say?

I’ve seen it in a real life, and here’s the story. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Polyvagal theory Tagged With: Anxiety, Brain, Childhood trauma, Education, emotional abuse, Healing from developmental trauma, Health, Insights, Neuroscience, Polyvagal theory, recovery from childhood emotional abuse, Self-awareness, Stephen Porges, Vagus

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