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How to Remain Calm and Present When Facing a Painful Challenge (And Get Through It)

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Overcoming a challengeHave you ever had to do something so unpleasant that the thought alone would send your anxiety through the roof?

The very idea of doing it has the power to set your skin on fire, deprive you of sleep, and highjack your thoughts. Your heart jumps frantically as if it wants to break out of your body and hide somewhere safe. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Challenge Tagged With: Abusive mother, Anxiety, Being strong, Challenge, DDD, Depersonalization, Derealization, Dissociation, DPDR, Emotional support, Family, Healing from developmental trauma, Inspirational, Life lessons, Mental health, Mindset, Motivational, Personal development, Personal growth, Self-care, Self-compassion, Self-help, Self-love, Toxic mothers

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

Is There Meaning in Suffering? Angels and Demons of Forgiveness

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Meaning of sufferingMy very first guest post is published on Purpose Fairy!

Hate and love. Deepest secrets of the Universe and a human brain. Stories we make about ourselves, and stories we tell.

Nothing seems to be permanent. Everything’s changing like waters in Flensburg fjord–from light to darkness through the shades of grey, and back again. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Forgiveness Tagged With: Abusive mother, Adult children, Communication, Dementia, Healing childhood trauma, Healing from developmental trauma, Inspirational, Life lessons, Love, Personal growth, recovery from childhood emotional abuse, Self-growth, Self-improvement, Spiritual, Storytelling, Toxic mothers

Why Do You Need to Choose Mindful Breathing?

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Abdominal breathingDo you know how to breathe?

I see you rolling your eyes — “Everybody knows that.”

After all, breathing is what we do from the moment we’re born.

Right? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Mindful breathing Tagged With: Abdominal breathing, Brain, Childhood trauma, Conscious breathing, Deep breathing, Developmental trauma, Healing childhood trauma, Healing childhood wounds, Healing from developmental trauma, Mindful breathing, Recovery from emotional abuse, Self-care, Self-love

Why Should You Trust Your Gut Feeling?

By Irina Leave a Comment

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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