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If someone was to get to the point in their life where they can no longer carry on living in the same way, they could end up buying a book on self-development or they could find a therapist to work with. What this could show is that their inner world is not as they would like it to be.
As a ... Views: 569
When someone is on a healing journey and is thus working through their emotional wounds, there are going to be moments when they will be in a lot of pain. The reason for this is that they will be facing up to the fact that certain needs won’t be met.
These will be needs that go back to when ... Views: 190
Whether someone has just started to work on their wounds or has been doing so for a little while, they are going to want their life to change. As to why they are engaging in this work, it could show that they were deeply deprived during their early years.
If so, this may have been a time when ... Views: 282
After getting to the stage where they can see that they are not in a good way, someone can look for a way to change their life. There is a chance that they have been this way for quite some time.
Either way, they will have taken a big step by becoming aware of what is going as if this hasn’t ... Views: 264
When someone takes the first step on their healing journey and looks into what they can do to experience life differently, they may have suffered for many years. As a result of this, they may want their life to change more or less overnight.
If the pain that they are in is unbearable, it is ... Views: 638
If someone’s inner world is not in a good way, they could simply tolerate what is going on and not do anything about it. Then again, they could end up looking for a way to change their life.
When it comes to what is taking place inside them, they could find that their thoughts and feelings ... Views: 504
If someone wants answers and ends up reaching out for support, it will show that they want to find a way to move past the challenges in their life. This could show that they have mental and emotional challenges, along with relationships that are not going as they would like them to ... Views: 580
Breaking the Trauma-Anxiety-Anger PTSD symptom Loop
You have read all about it in the tabloids, newspapers and on-line news and entertainment sources… Celebrity relationship melt-downs, due to their inability to respond appropriately to repeated trauma-related anxiety that suddenly looms up ... Views: 1183
When it comes to living a fulfilling life, one thing that is often mentioned is having an open heart. Or, perhaps to be more accurate, this is what is often mentioned in the world of self-development and spirituality.
What this typically relates to is someone being connected to how they feel ... Views: 51
What can be normal is for someone to feel helpless and as though they are unable to do anything. However, even though this is how they can generally feel and perceive life, it doesn’t mean that they will be consciously aware of this.
As a result of this, being this way is going to prevent ... Views: 206
If someone was able to take a step back and reflect on their life, what they may find is that they often feel helpless. This could be how they have experienced life for as long as they can remember.
Consequently, it is unlikely that they have a very fulfilling existence. In fact, they could ... Views: 388
In general, someone can have the inclination to feel helpless, and this is likely to make it hard for them to live a fulfilling life. What this comes down to is that they won’t feel as though they are able to do anything to change their life.
This is likely to show that this is more than just ... Views: 300
What can be normal is for someone to be passive and lack motivation. This could be how they have been for as long as they can remember.
Due to this, they might typically only do what they have to do. Based on how they live their life, it will be as though they have given up on life and don’t ... Views: 114
Some people are naturally more intense than others.
They are often told that they are ‘too much,’, ’too sensitive,’ ‘too emotional.
People who feel more deeply and intensely than others are more aware of subtleties; their brain processes information and reflects on it more deeply. At ... Views: 1783
Yesterday, I caught the tail end of a conversation that got me thinking about pain, and how attached many of us our to our pain.
Pain is a valuable tool, as its presence alerts us to something that is in need of attention and healing, but what happens when we become so used to the pain that ... Views: 3174
Maybe you have been on the healing path for a number of years now or maybe you have only just started out. Either way, what you may find is that you have the tendency to compare your own life with others.
Let’s say that you are working through some heavy stuff at the moment and someone else ... Views: 402
In life, there will be hurdles that are both big and small that need to be overcome but that doesn’t mean that someone will believe that they have what it takes to handle these. Before they even come into contact with a hurdle, they could feel hopeless and helpless.
Therefore, before they ... Views: 227
If someone was able to step back and reflect on their life, what they may find is that they have very little motivation or desire to do anything. They might simply not see the point in doing much.
This can be how they typically experience life and they might rarely if ever feel a strong need ... Views: 192
If someone has recently gone through a breakup, they could find that they feel deeply hopeless and helpless. They are then going to be in a state of despair and it will be as though their life is over.
This may have been a relationship that lasted for a number of months or it might have been ... Views: 227
The U.S. Department of Veterans’ Affairs reports that one in five combat veterans develops Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, either during or shortly after combat. The Mayo Clinic defines PTSD as having three main categories of symptoms: “re-experiencing symptoms,” “avoidance symptoms,” ... Views: 1076
The other day I was looking through a book called, ‘How to Survive Without Psychotherapy’ by David Smail. From what I read, it was clear that this was someone who was not too keen on the type of approach that is often taken when it comes to mental and emotional problems.
He didn’t like the ... Views: 665
Psychological abuse leaves no visible marks and often remains hidden within families, romantic relationships, toxic individuals and groups, cults and organisations of various religious and non-religious orientations. However, it is at least as damaging as the more explicitly violent forms of ... Views: 1226
Subconscious Reprogramming refers to the process of renewing your unconscious mind through repeated exposure to new thoughts, ideas, habits and images. You can gain a lot when you engage consciously in the process. You can easily eliminate psychological trauma when you take time to engage in the ... Views: 3955
Operating a motorcycle involves different skills than driving a car. They’re far less stable on the highway and less visible to other drivers. The openness of the vehicle itself also makes motorcyclists far more susceptible to injury and vulnerable to conditions than other drivers. In fact, it’s ... Views: 905
“Whatever we have taken from them, the founding story of our lives, imposed on us by a mother and father who in turn inherited a faulty script from their own parents, isn’t even ours.” – Derren Brown in Happy
There is an element of your shame that is not yours. It was drip-fed down through ... Views: 818
Immediately after a traumatic event, it is common for people to feel stunned and not being able to accept what has happened, as such events could arouse a lot of disturbing feelings in a person, giving rise to mixed emotions of stress, fear, anger and agitation. But things usually settle with ... Views: 820
Too often, people with handicaps live their life just to survive. This happens to people when their focus is on what is wrong, but that is not the only focus a handicapped person can have. It is possible to find a peaceful center within you. When you focus there, it is easy to ignore the ... Views: 1393
When we lose someone we love, we go through a complex grieving process. Often, the pain of loss can feel overwhelming. You may go from shock to anger and denial, to disbelief, resentment and guilt, to profound sadness and depression, from great remorse and loneliness, and finally ... Views: 71
One of the most direct ways to transform your life is to let go of the past. Many people try to let go of painful memories or forget the past. Another option is to let go of emotional wounds from the past.
Emotions are different from thoughts. Emotions are experienced in the body. According ... Views: 1131
Moving house is always a stressful situation to find oneself in. It becomes even more stressful if the home that you are about to leave is one that you have built or lived in for many years.
To part with your family home can feel like cutting away a large chunk of your past. The act of ... Views: 1824
We cringe as we hear of the latest mass tragedy whether it's another shooting, a hurricane, tornado, fire, or flood. It's just one more horrific event that fills our daily thoughts and hearts. Yet, we never believe that something so awful could ever happen to us or to anyone close to ... Views: 1486
Due to what has been taking place in recent years, it has meant that a lot of people have been starved of human contact. However, there are those who were in this position before all this was going on.
For someone like this, spending time alone and away from others will just be what is ... Views: 272
Now, although someone can have the desire to be in an intimate relationship, it doesn’t mean that they won’t have ended up pulling away from at least one relationship. In fact, this may have been something that has taken place on more than one occasion.
Either way, when this has taken place, ... Views: 185
Even though someone will be an interdependent human being, it doesn’t mean that they will act like one. Instead, they can be happy spending time by themselves and rarely if ever be or reach out to others.
If they are around others, it could be a sign that they are at work or out shopping. ... Views: 244
Although there are those who are able to be by themselves and to be with others, there are also those who are unable to relate to this. As a result of this, they are likely to feel uncomfortable around others and they can feel uncomfortable being by themselves.
For that reason, their life is ... Views: 348
As someone is an interdependent human being, it is going to mean that it is important for them to experience human contact. This is something that will have a positive effect on their wellbeing.
Nonetheless, although this is the case, it doesn’t mean that they will experience a great deal of ... Views: 149
What can be normal is for someone to spend a lot of time by themselves, having very little interest in being around others. This could be how they have been for as long as they can remember.
Therefore, they might not wonder why they are this way or have the need to change their life. Then ... Views: 74
Even though someone is an interdependent human being and thus needs others, it doesn’t mean that they will act like one. They could spend a lot of their time by themselves and rarely if ever reach out to others.
This could mean that they will have a job or a career that doesn’t involve a lot ... Views: 233
In today’s world, if someone is practically always on the go, it is not going to be difficult for them to find people who believe that they are living in the right way. One can be seen as someone who is taking life by the horns, as opposed to waiting around for things to happen.
If one was ... Views: 357
Many societies around the world are full of people who are more or less always on the go. This is how it has been for many, many decades and it is unlikely to change any time soon.
When someone lives in this way, they are unlikely to believe that they are living in a way that is not ... Views: 266
It is part of the human experience for someone to spend time asleep and time awake. One way of looking at this would be to say that they will then spend part of their life being and part of their life doing.
At the same time, this wouldn’t be completely accurate as there will need to be ... Views: 155
What someone may find, if they were to reflect on their life is that it is normal for them to more or less always be on the go. So, from the moment that they wake up, until the moment they go to bed, they could generally be doing something.
And, even when they go on holiday, that’s if they do ... Views: 235
If someone has a strong need for human contact, it can seem as if they would be aware of it. However, even if they do, this could still be something that they are typically unaware of.
What this means, then, is that this need will generally be outside of their conscious awareness. But, while ... Views: 244
“MY CBT therapist told me those were ‘irrational thinking,’ which made it worse- now I just blame myself.”
“ I have gone through my childhood trauma many times, but when I argue with my partner, I still behave like a five-year-old!”
It is not as though we didn’t try- Many of us ... Views: 1360
One of the reasons that someone can look for answers and reach out for support is because they are unable to move forward. What this could mean is that they don’t feel worthy and deserving of having what they desire.
There is then going to be where they are and where they want to be, but ... Views: 202
If someone is finding it hard to handle life or a certain area of their life is a challenge, they can have a strong need for another person to come and make it better. They could spend a fair amount of time thinking about what their life would be like if this was to take place.
When this ... Views: 236
If someone was to observe their thoughts for a little while, they can find that they often think about bad things happening in the future. Consequently, they are likely to experience a fair amount of fear and anxiety.
And, if they were to talk to a friend about what is going on for them, they ... Views: 89
Although someone may have attained a certain level of success, it doesn’t mean that they will feel comfortable with it. Based on how they often feel, it could be as if they have stolen this success from someone else.
They could be doing well in their career and a number of other areas of ... Views: 149
In light of events fifteen miles away (Baltimore) to 10,000 miles from my doorstop (Nepal), this essay titled, "Individual and Collective Crisis/Trauma Intervention and Debriefing: Ten Steps & Strategies," clearly has immediate relevance and application. Actually, the impetus for the article ... Views: 1662
Although someone will be physically separate from others, it doesn’t mean that they will be emotionally separate from them. What this means is that they may find that their emotional state is typically defined by what is going on around them.
Therefore, if they are in a relationship and their ... Views: 466