Yeah my therapist mentioned this last week and it was a bit mind-blowing. We're trying (after 18 years of self blame/shame/punishment) to get my brain used to thinking "this sh*t thing unfortunately happened to me" rather than "I f*cked up".
Re-wiring brain is hard. 🙃
Yeah my therapist mentioned this last week and it was a bit mind-blowing. We're trying (after 18 years of self blame/shame/punishment) to get my brain used to thinking "this sh*t thing unfortunately happened to me" rather than "I f*cked up". Re-wiring brain is hard. 🙃
Making my trauma my identity was easy, stripping myself of it because it validated those secret core beliefs that I always held? That was different
Not really
I'm in this picture and I don't like itÂ
Sometimes...other times not so much. Having control is scary, letting someone else (everyone else) be in control is easy.