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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 1d

When you woke up today, did you tell yourself:

"I love you"?

Well, now's not too late.

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 2d

Inflicting trauma wherever they go.

Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is intentionally inflicting trauma on non-white communities.

It is disgusting.

They also are NOT doing this in "red" states.

So ICE is also weaponized against "blue" states.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 5d

Our trauma brains often have us fighting battles that no longer exist.

Healing is what gives us distance from the noise and dust of those wars.

So that we can see and FEEL that we are safe now.

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 8d

Vulnerability is what makes you strong.

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 8d

Yes!

Always...

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 9d

This is what healing is like:

My life is so much better now than it was 3 years ago when I started my healing work.

However, I've noticed that some days if I'm not "productive" I can still get "antsy" or "feel off".

Yesterday was one such day, we'll see how today goes!

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 11d

Never compare yourself to anyone else’s healing journey.

That’s not reality. That’s your trauma brain talking.

Everyone starts from a different place. Has different resources available to them. Different factors of life at play.

Be you. Always.

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 12d

I'm ever thankful for Dr. Tara Brach's "Radical Acceptance".

It was there that I found a way to begin extending to myself a measure of grace and forgiveness.

Her words like a balm for a deeply wounded soul.

Where I could begin to let go of long held self-blame and harshness.

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 15d

A lot of garbage is being fed to men. I'll speak from experience:

Men stop living in an emotional straight jacket. They want you one-dimensional because then you are easier to control. Easier to use. Easier to profit from.

Because you ain't free.

Healing is your path to freedom brothers.

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 17d

Whenever fear arises, see if you can let yourself feel it.

Then ask, "What's underneath this?"

Keep feeling each layer and then asking again.

Your fears can peel back like an onion and eventually you arrive at the thing you fear most of all.

Then you realize, it won't kill you. You process it.

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 18d

I hope we can believe in ourselves enough so that we believe in our neighbors too.

Inside is outside.

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 19d

I'd like to hear from other folks healing from trauma:

My experience is that allowing pain to surface is painful, but the relief is so vastly worth it.

Has that been true for others?

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 20d

Odd how we are simultaneously a once-in-forever creation.

Each of us a true "one-of-a-kind".

Yet we are also just a bagged up collection of dust and light that's been lying around for billions of years.

Maybe it's the rolling together of the special and the mundane that makes us whole?

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 20d

The external world matters more the less you are connected to your inner world.

Connection inside is the path to greater peace.

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 20d

thanks for sharing. Yeah, you don't really miss them.

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 21d

You will 100% lose "friends" as you heal.

But, I think it's more accurate to say that those who do not welcome the new you--the one that is healing, growing their self-love & acceptance, learning to set healthy boundaries--are welcome to leave your life.

It's a realignment, not a loss.

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 21d

YES! Congrats! Same here!

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 22d

Healing from my complex trauma has changed my life more than anything I've ever done and it's not even close.

The wildest part?

I'm not even done yet.

There's more change to come.

And I can't wait!

#HealingWorksWonders

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 23d

thanks!

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 24d

I have a big deadline coming up in my work life.

I'm no longer trying to convince myself that I'll "get it done" and "do well".

Nope. I'm now working on accepting things if I were to "fail".

The former keeps me on the old Hamster Wheel of Achievement.

The latter: Acceptance!

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you!

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 24d

100%! I also hate April Fool's!

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 24d

Good points!

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Trauma Healing Guy @traumahealingguy.bsky.social · 25d

I've never liked practical jokes, especially the cruel ones.

Now I know why.

Growing up in a cPTSD home, I've had enough of chaos, confusion, and cruelty.

That kind of humor strikes too close to home for me.

"It's just a joke" to you, may not be to someone else.

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