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6 Reasons to Slow Down and Enjoy Your Life

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Enjoy life as it is“The secret to happier life lies not in finding your inner self but in coming in terms with yourself in order to coexist peacefully with others.” – Svend Brinkmann

How many self-help books are already gathering dust on your bookshelves? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: Happiness, Insights, Inspirational, Joy, Mindset, Self-development, Slow down

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 Deal with a Challenge and Feel Great

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Happy woman

Last month, I went through the challenge of revisiting my past.

I was in my parents’ home, empty of people but full of stuff—and memories.

The journey had the potential to be a disaster. It could’ve thrown me into a downward spiral of anxiety, panic attacks, and depression. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Challenge Tagged With: Childhood trauma, Dissociation, Healing childhood trauma, Healing childhood wounds, Healing from developmental trauma, Insights, Inspirational, Mindset, Motivational, Narcissistic mothers, Self-care, Self-improvement

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 You Should Care About Polyvagal Theory

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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

Ugly Truth About Child Abuse and Developmental Trauma

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Developmental trauma If someone asked you about your childhood, what would you say?

“I don’t want to talk about it,” or “There’s not much to say,” or “Nothing was wrong with my childhood”?

Perhaps you wouldn’t remember much even if you tried… except your mother’s icy face, your dad’s angry voice, or your uncle’s drunken laughter…

And your fear of being in this unsafe and dangerous world.

Scared and sad, you had no one to talk to. No one who would listen and understand. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Child Abuse, Developmental trauma Tagged With: Abusive mother, Adult children, Anxiety, Brain, Child abuse, Childhood trauma, Developmental trauma, Healing childhood trauma, Healing childhood wounds, Healing from developmental trauma, Health, Insights, inspiration, Inspirational, Life lessons, Personal growth, recovery from childhood emotional abuse, Relationships, Self-care, Self-compassion, Self-growth, Self-love, toxic people

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