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Withstand Ongoing Trauma, Updated

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:December 1, 2024
  • Post category:Hard Times, Abuse

As you move through difficult, triggering events in the present, bring along all the healing tools you have learned over time.

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Open to Medical Care

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:June 1, 2024
  • Post category:Find Support

We all deserve medical care, and it can take many small steps to find and trust the care we need.

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Reach for Rainbow Vision

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:January 1, 2024
  • Post category:Acceptance

We can kindly see that everyone has a mix of strengths and weaknesses.

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Let Life Flow Forward

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:March 1, 2022
  • Post category:Wider Narratives

Inhabit the moving present rather than the frozen past.

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Restore Your Kind Attention

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:February 1, 2022
  • Post category:Hard Times, Abuse

Denial buys time to gather resources and absorb information more gradually.

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Care for Hidden Ruptures

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:January 1, 2022
  • Post category:Boundaries, Full Self

Imagine if we collectively made it a high priority to help children and adults heal from attachment wounds.

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Associate Yourself with Nature

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:December 2, 2021
  • Post category:Healing Tools

Contact with nature can steady your nervous system and counter a sense of isolation and unreality.

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Talk About Abusers

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:November 1, 2021
  • Post category:Hard Times, Abuse

Most people are complex mixtures of good and bad intentions, benign and harmful behaviors.

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Accessible for This Starfish

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:October 2, 2021
  • Post category:Wider Narratives

When one person feels more welcome and safe, they can take more action and inspire others to action.

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Within Reach of Your Comfort Zone

  • Post author:sonia
  • Post published:September 1, 2021
  • Post category:Boundaries, Full Self

When we have access to a secure home base, we can explore and take risks more freely.

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