Psychological trauma recovery requires help. It requires input from others. It requires support, to be heard, to be witnessed, and sadly, because it is rare, it requires being understood. Empathy can go only so far and not ever be enough. A victim of psychological abuse probably has and gives more empathy than anyone they know…
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become…
… No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.”– James Clear, Atomic Habits
” I cannot stress too deeply the importance of one’s constructive mental attitude toward life…
One gets out of life only what one puts into it; everything must be seeded in different degrees. Always express happy thoughts and keep an uncomplaining mind. A complaining mind is a destructive one-destructive to health and happiness. How easily we may be made unhappy depends upon the weakness and ignorance of our own minds.…
“Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence, not in an exemption from suffering.” – Francis Fenelon
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
Tubular,
My dearest, pipe dream What is known cannot be spoken. What is heard may ever bleed. What is felt remains undefined in a cubic culture of a spherical nature. Switch Switch flow be transmuted accidentally Alchemically into form as rules dissipate in becoming the law in which thinking won’t suffice. – May
The Invitation – Oriah Mountain Dreamer
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for…
“There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.” – Rumi
Feeling crazy (again)… gaslighting detox support ;)
I love a good song, musical skill, a unique impression and a bit of cynical humour to aid in a recovery process. Here’s to every abuser and codependent in recovery… Sometimes it all just feels like the joke is on us. But it isn’t. Is it? 😉 no, it isn’t.. but it does feel that…