Resurrection After Rape Community Group
Discussion, question-and-answer, general social support, and journal processing for progress-oriented rape survivors. No crisis, no damaging or triggering conflicts--this is for individuals who want to contribute to collective, cooperative action toward the goal of making actual PROGRESS through rape trauma. Much of this work is based on the book "Resurrection After...
I don't know how I've gone these many years without hearing this before now, but I just came across a stunning bit of information in a book. If you have a tendency to dissociate--"leave your body"--during triggers, the scent of cedar oil can halt the process! Nobody really knows why.
It's interesting that cedar is used as a medicine in native ceremonies as a grounding/centering medicine.
It's interesting that cedar is used as a medicine in native ceremonies as a grounding/centering medicine.
I'll make a trip to whole foods the local health shop didn't have ceder oil.
At first I was thinking ... I don't leave my body. I never had the floating over looking down thing I had more of split like part of me stepping outside myself but I don't feel that way anymore. But I am wondering there is this way that I feel often when at home sometimes like when I am super alone and I just can't make sense of it and then I try and I get that feeling!?. I dislike it alot. Now I am wondering if maybe this is still some level of disassociation.