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What My Trauma “Demons” Taught Me
I used to dread and loath when trauma demons from my past and present came for a visit. They’d come in the form of debilitating flashbacks, triggers, night terrors and nightmares, panic attacks, intrusive memories, and so much more. But then, I had an experience with one of these “demons” that changed everything. My daughter kept asking to go to the beautiful university gardens nearby. I avoided it and made excuses because I feared returning there. I knew it would trigger a suffocating amount of trauma demons. Even though I had graduated over a year prior, a paperwork issue arose that I needed to resolve. I did my best to…
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Trauma Healing Tools: Trauma Life Essential Oil Blend
Click here for full Disclaimer and Disclosure. If you have experienced any trauma or distress in your life (and let’s be honest, we can’t get through this life without experiencing something even a little scarring), this powerhouse essential oil blend is a must. Trauma Life Essential Oil Blend by Young Living. As a survivor of severe trauma, it has been very important to me to have effective and nurturing tools to safely release trapped emotions, reprocess surfacing trauma, and sooth triggers, flashbacks, sleep disturbances and other trauma symptoms. While reprocessing traumatic experiences in therapy, Trauma Life has always played a major role in keeping me firmly grounded in the present…
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Self-Care Series: My Journey of Redefining Self-Care
If you feel that trauma has changed you and your needs, and you’re struggling to find what truly soothes you, feeds your soul and breaths life, stability and purpose back into you throughout fresh trauma and post-trauma, then keep reading. Maybe it will be of some help to you. I know what it’s like to be left reeling with and having to manage a trigger storm. I know what it’s like to find myself feeling mentally and emotionally foggy and drained. I know what it feels like to be drowning in the waves of emotional flooding and flashbacks. I know what it feels like to wake up from an uninterrupted…
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Fruits of Healing Trauma
Trauma. It has touched, affected, and permeated every corner, crack, and crevice of my life. Even General Conference. But today I tasted healing fruits. For the last few years I’ve had a really difficult time watching General Conference. Not because of mom problems (like little bedlamites running rampant and noisily throughout the house). It was because of trauma and how it impacted my sensory input. My threshold for auditory sensory input quickly dropped to maybe 20 minutes – regardless of how pleasant the sound was. Because of that, I haven’t been able to sit through and actually get something out of Conference for about 3 years. It has just been…
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Surviving, Striving, Thriving
Have you ever felt like you’re standing at a crossroads in your life knowing and feeling with every cell in your body that you and God want to take the fork to the left? But you can’t see clearly? I’ve been feeling for a long time that I needed to become more active online, to share me, my story, my strength, and the hope and healing that I have – that God has give me. I’ve been terrified, filled with many fears and many reasons that had me stuck in inaction. After a lot of prayer, quiet, humble listening while reading the word of God, and gentle self-care, peace, clarity,…
