Tag: fear
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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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Six reasons you don’t want help. Challenge yourself to do something different today.
I could list so many people I know right now who are unhappy. For some of them it’s a subtle feeling…I don’t remember the last time I felt truly happy. For others they have confided in me they have struggled so much they have considered taking their own lives. What do many of these people…
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Scared to talk, but desperate not to be afraid.
Fear is a strange thing. Sometimes it is based in fact, things we fear and we know we have to do, like public speaking. Sometimes it is based on experience, something bad has happened before and we worry it will happen again like a failed exam. Sometimes there is no logic or reason for it.…
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Freedom from the past. Living free of fear but then what?
Freedom from the past. Living free of fear but then what? I have recently realised I am a total fraud. For years I have proclaimed I lived free of my past, but it has been there all along, just hiding in plain sight and now I don’t know how to let it go.
Rowan Aderyn 