Tag: healing from trauma

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Mantra: The Guide of Your Healing Journey

If you’ve been following this blog for a while now, you know all about PTSD and trauma. But in case you’re new, trauma can be a super stressful condition that affects every part of your life, leaving you easily triggered and stuck in patterns of depression, anxiety and rumination. There is life after tauma if …

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Body Dysmorphia: An Introduction

There’s a chance that you haven’t heard the term ‘body dysmorphia’ before, but I can guarantee you’ve at least heard of some of the effects it can have. For example: self-harm, depression, low self-esteem, a lack of confidence, anorexia, bulimia, binging, or excessive working out. (To be clear, these are examples of some things that …

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Healing isn’t linear.

Healing is a really complicated thing. Some days you feel like you’re making a lot of progress and it makes you feel really powerful. Other days, not so much but at least you’re further ahead than you were a year ago, so that’s still something. Then there are the bad days. The fucked up, panic-attack-filled, …

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