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The Act of Growing Resilience changing behaviors growing forward healing resilience survivor understanding resilience Sep 10, 2024

"Our ability to grow resilient in the face of adversity

spreads to others and helps them grow resilient as well"

 

I am in my garden today getting ready for the new season of tending, weeding and h...

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WWJD Posters and other Myths in our Workplaces courage growing forward limiting beliefs reconciliation trauma trauma-informed workplaces Sep 10, 2024

"Trauma is prevalent in our world and its effects can ripple out, shaping our interactions and relationships at home and at work"

 

 We interrupt this peaceful slumber with an eye opening blast from...

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Neuroplasticity Unleashed: How to Use Our Emotions to Heal. changing behaviors growing forward hearing triggers resilience trauma Sep 10, 2024

OK where are all the people who, when triggered go right into anger mode? You are my people, unfortunately we share the inability to keep our lids closed when a trigger cuts deep into a trauma wound. ...

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Sankofa: Finding Gifts in our Trauma changing behaviors courage growing forward healing hearing triggers resilience trauma Sep 10, 2024

Life changes fast. Life changes in an instant.

You can sit down to dinner and life as you know it changes"

Joan Didion


This week I have been overly triggered. It started when I was working outside ...

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Mean Girls and Breaking Plans to See you Next Tuesday changing behaviors courage growing forward healing resilience self acceptance trauma Sep 10, 2024

"Who you were, who you are and who you will be are three different people"

 

Yesterday was cleaning closet day at Casa Anastasia with the goal of clearing out anything that was no longer of value in...

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The Weight of Unhealed Trauma changing behaviors courage growing forward healing hearing triggers survivor trauma Sep 10, 2024

"Trauma comes back as a Reaction not a memory"

Bessel van der Kolk

 

A childhood filled with never knowing when the temperature was going to turn to rage - 200 blocks
Raised in a home lacking Empath...

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Dancing With the One that Brought You changing behaviors courage growing forward healing hearing triggers trauma Sep 10, 2024

"Stay with me,

Let's just breathe

Practiced on my sins, never gonna let you win, uh-huh

Under everything, just another human being, uh-huh

I don't want to hurt

There's so much in this world to ma...

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Withchypoos and Wardens: Observations of a Scared Child. changing behaviors growing forward hearing triggers reconciliation survivor trauma Sep 10, 2024

"Fear is a mile wide and an inch deep"

Edgar Nye

 I grew up on the North side of Manning as the youngest of 4 girls. Our home, like many others in the 70's was dysfunctional, with lots of arguing, t...

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