There are a variety of reasons you may have difficulty identifying or expressing emotions, we call this alexithymia. One reason might be growing up in a home where emotions were not allowed or encouraged. In that type of environment, the child does not have an opportunity to learn about their … [Read more...]
JFK Quote
I find that when someone fears change or the discomfort that may come from it, then tend to over-focus on this pain and fail to attend to the pain of their current state. This is understandable, whatever pain or discomfort you are currently in is at least familiar, it’s known. The possible pain … [Read more...]
Quote by Albus Dumbledore from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Truer words were never spoken. Many of us are born into circumstances that we would not choose. Each of us has the choices to stay and be defined by where we are born, who we are born to and the bodies we were born into. And each of us can choose to move on, to change our way of looking at … [Read more...]
Quote from Patricia DeYoung’s Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame
Chronic shame is a hallmark of attachment trauma, of emotional misattunement or lack of validation by caretakers. Shame is the belief not just that one has DONE something bad, but one IS bad. We hold shame away from the light because the idea that someone else might see and know our shame is so … [Read more...]
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