Category: wellbeing
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Survivors guilt. I survived and thrived, they barely stay alive.
Sometimes I feel guilty for the life I have. I feel awful for all the children who suffered in their childhood and never really made it out. Even the ones who survived often face a life of struggles, crafted by their beginning. So many of them get lost in a system designed to teach them…
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Three thoughts for Father’s Day for the ones without fathers or always wanting to be a dad.
Father’s Day is definitely a happy time for many recognising the love and showing gratitude for the wonderful dads who helped shape our journey. For some though it can be hard. Either a bitter reminder of the father they never had, the father they have lost or the heart breaking reality of the child they…
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Trauma Therapy Session 15: Post day 8.Five steps to processing emotions.
As part of my ongoing therapy we have been trying to explore and expose me to more negative emotions. Previously negative emotions were a set of feelings I forced aside, avoided, halted, or ignored. This process has been extremely uncomfortable though I recognise needed. I am still not great at it and last week I…
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Trauma Therapy Session 15: Post day 6. Five ways to support your partner while you get treatment.
Sharing a journey through treatment to demystify the process for anyone nervous about starting therapy. Reflecting on the conversations to find the lessons to move forward. I took some time to speak with Stephen this week I wanted to understand his perspective on this journey. I often wonder how it impacts him. I know I…
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Poetry to Ignite: Hold on
Hold on, for just one more day.I promise there is a tomorrow which holds your dreams and it is closer than you will ever know. Hold on, for just one more hour.Those feelings which drown you will always fade away, this too shall pass. Hold on, for just one more minute.Those thoughts can’t last forever,…
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Poetry to ignite the soul: Definition.
How do you define you? By your actions?By your thoughts?By your feelings? If you act against your wants or needs, you refuse to feel what you don’t want to feel.If you deny your thoughts and cast them aside. What is it that makes you then? Are you defined by your past, but what if you…
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Spontaneous recovery. Did talking therapy heal my finger?
Stay with me guys. I know this is a bit of break from the usual broadcasting, but related so I can get away with it. For those of you who have been following along of this bumpy ride for a while you will have heard about me managing to burn myself making soup! It took…
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Trauma Therapy Session 15: Post day 1. Therapy a journey down the rabbit hole and a path to happy ever after. I hope!
Sharing a journey through treatment to demystify the process for anyone nervous about starting therapy. Reflecting on the conversations to find the lessons to move forward. I value every minute of these conversations. Brilliant session this one. We reflected on the last conversation two weeks ago and it really helped to start cementing in this…
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Trauma Therapy Session 14: Post day 11. What do I do now?
As part of the therapy sessions we have been focusing a lot on my belief I was some how responsible for the horrific events in my past. I always acknowledged others played a role. But if I am honest I focused on the parts I felt were mine. They were the parts I could control…
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Trauma Therapy Session 14: Post day 5. Happy highs and crash and burn
Sharing a journey through treatment to demystify the process for anyone nervous about starting therapy and also to help me reflect and find the lessons to move forward. I am committed to sharing a honest view of this therapy journey. The good, the bad, the in between. This week is defiantly one of the stranger…
Rowan Aderyn 