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Sometimes Trauma Feels Like Failure – Your brain has no way of knowing if the danger is still present, so it relies on you, the way you feel and react now. Sometimes trauma feels like failure, like there must have been something we could have done at the time to have prevented those damaging memories from being created in the first…
You’re Not Helping, Brain! – Trauma work is hard. At its root is the stark realization that the bad things will never go away. They happened. To ignore the new hand of cards you’ve been dealt is to accept desolation and contempt. Last night, I was running. Graceful. Powerful. Arms and lungs pumping in perfect synchronicity. My perfect legs carried…
Let’s Get Right To The Point – You have to listen unflinchingly — not the performative kind of listening that glitters like cotton candy in social posts, but the kind where every word that hits your ears leaves a mark. To be trauma-informed isn’t about checking a box or parroting back sanitized language. It’s about staring directly into the raw, bloody truth…
Take the Time to Master Emotional Intelligence and You Take Back Your Power – “Getting emotionally regulated doesn’t just mean gaining mastery over your brain when it comes to choosing your emotional responses to stress, it also means becoming impervious to the emotional manipulation tactics of other, weaker men looking to take you down.” – Thor Uram When you decide to master emotional intelligence, something unexpected happens: the people…