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The danger of being raised to believe you only had value if you were a servant is the same as the danger of being raised in an ultra religious atmosphere. If all your friends were in a commune, or,...

More of the same. You're hurting, so you circle the wagons around you and the kids an I'm an outsider. You never did this to Joanna. You never forced her to be on the outside.  Once we make a...

I've talked about this for a while... I don't remember my former one exactly, but it was similar. I am strong. I can draw on strength from myself.I am loving. I can feel me who has had immense...

Please read all the way through before you react.. please and consider it in the broader context, the one that you wrote me emails about after the break in Jan and after talking to Martin. It does...

The Buddha crafted an analogy in which he described the mind as being filled with untamed monkeys. Imagine them springing and bounding wildly from one side of our minds to the other. The monkeys...

There is this overwhelming need to tell you what my counselors told me I could not expect from you. I couldn't expect an end product, a way of being. I could only expect that steps to get to the end...

Technique for Overcoming ResentmentI am not suggesting that we suppress or deny these feelings. But rather, use responsible methods for dealing with these uncomfortable and unpleasant emotions so...

All challenges are there to teach us a lesson. But we are conditioned to treat challenge as a bad thing. Challenge is our friend, embrace it! We experience what we put out. When we experience and...

"My personal experience has been; that which we resist, persists. The more we suppress something, the more it will stick around, and affect our emotional wellbeing in the long run. Pretending that it...

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"A boundary is like a tea strainer. It allows the fluidity between people but catches the "stuff" of transference which can become imposing." (author unknown)4 Step model for setting boundaries1....

Re: How best to relate to someone who has CPTSD« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2015, 10:34:13 AM » QuoteI have a friend or two who have come from the same type of past I have, and they "get it", of...

So much of what you tell yourself is lies, lies about me, lies about yourself, lies about reality. Does it really feel good to wrap yourself up in them and create pain? all bad moods - not hardly....

I teach in an hour. You were up at this time yesterday. I know you have to get started with everything soon, I sent a text, I called.. what is it this time? Or is it already too late? You said this...

  I know you don't check email, so sorry for the long text.             It's not being busy, it's all the time we could have used to keep mending going, and you didn't.  Friday night. You...