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This is a quote from Gabor Maté’s When the Body Says No. He goes on to say that repression “disorganizes and confuses our physiological defences so that in some people these defences go awry, becoming the destroyers of health rather than its protectors.” We all…

In our modern, Western world a lot of emphasis is placed on productivity. Children are rewarded in school for perfect attendance. We are taught from a young age that our worth is dependent upon our productivity. You can see that in debates about public assistance.…

Did you know tat in order for a caterpillar to become a butterfly it must first digest itself? When it is in its chrysalis it digests itself, becoming a soup with what are called imaginal discs. These discs are groups of cells that survive this…

This is a beautiful sentiment if the people you’ve loved and the things you have learned are healthy. But if you grew up in an abusive, toxic, neglectful or chaotic home environment these changes are not for the better. When a child grows up in…

So often people feel the need to put up this front so that others will not know they feel like they’re dying on the floor. And sometimes there is even a front that they put up for themselves. If they don’t cry then they won’t…

Let’s really take a minute to take that in and think about it. Often, we come to think that the stress and symptoms we are experiencing are due to a mental illness, but that is not always that case. Sometimes these are adaptations to a…