Tag: emotions
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Five ways to disconnect and three ways to reconnect with your emotions
So I have been thinking about my strength to dissociate from emotions. I call it a strength but I caution you, taken too far this ability can literally disconnect you from life. There are so many ways I can deploy this superpower. Some of them I have always been aware of, others I have only…
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Trauma Therapy Session 19: Post day 1. Phobia of compliments.
Last night I was a complete mess prior to this session. Once again struggling with navigating some of these conversations. An increasing part of me just wanted to back away from therapy but I recognise the drivers for that are fear based and not productive. Chris offered a brilliant quote today one from Obama… ‘You…
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Trauma Therapy Session 7: Post Session day 2. Not the conversation I was expecting.
Sooner or later I am going to realise there is no value in getting myself wound up about expectations of a conversation because sometimes we end up on a totally different tangent. Today was one of those days. We sign posted last week that we would use the time today to discuss a little about…
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Five ways to bring calm to emotions in the moment.
I hesitated writing this post, because I am currently in therapy to undo a lot of the below. Due to prior trauma in my life I had practiced the art of setting aside or numbing my emotions and I have reached the point now where I am a little numb to it all, which is…
Rowan Aderyn 