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Listen to how people talk. Their choice of words. What they’re saying to you. If you listen to people long enough, they will tell you what’s going on in their head without even realizing it

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Too many people are unknowingly regressing to the age of their unhealed traumas. I feel like a school teacher telling adults to be kind, fact check their resources, stop spreading rumors, and get to the point in an argument.

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Any significant level of fear throws rational thinking right out the window. The things we'll say and do when scared...will be things we look back on later and think, "What the f*ck was I thinking/doing?!?!" Do everything possible to reduce your level of fear.

submitted 19 days ago • 85 comments

It takes curiosity to learn. It takes courage to unlearn. Learning requires the humility to admit what you don't know today. Unlearning requires the integrity to admit that you were wrong yesterday. Learning is how you evolve. Unlearning is how you keep up as the world evolves.

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

The single most important thing we can do right now is heal from our own traumas. When we do, we provide permission for the people around us to heal. We show them that it’s possible, that it’s safe. We become the shepherds for our family, friends, community, and country.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Toxic positivity is pressuring people to look on the bright side. They have to suppress anxiety, anger, sadness, and grief. Healthy support is shielding people from the dark side. You invite them to express their pain, and show them they're not alone and won't feel it forever.

submitted 23 days ago • 28 comments

Half of American Christians are worshiping a false God and calling him daddy instead of loving God with all their heart and taking care of their neighbor. Unhealed systemic traumas create distorted priorities.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

You cannot take away the constricting emotions of shame, guilt, grief, and anger, without also taking away their equal but opposite counterparts of peace, love, joy, and gratitude. We were meant to experience all of them. Like a good recipe, wisdom is knowing how and when to bend and balance.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

As a teen, I read dystopian books to escape my reality. As an adult, I find myself reading reality books to escape from dystopia.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

It is the Good Samaritan, not the Christian nationalist, that truly understands the teachings of Jesus. You can be agnostic and take care of your neighbor. You can be atheist and take care of your neighbor. You can claim to be a Christian and cause great pain to your neighbor.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Just learned one of the soldiers I served with is no longer. My method can/have helped people in non-ER crisis slay PTSD demons and reconcile heavy parts of the psyche, without having to relive the event. In an emergency, 📞988 (US/CA). It’s the fastest path to a mental health professional.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

A message for my TikTok followers: I hold so much gratitude for the growth, memories, and joy over the past 3+ yrs. I am so freaking proud of all of you for choosing courage over comfort and curiosity over fear. The journey is not over. We keep moving forward. Find me on Clapper @AnnieEmprima

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

How old are you when you are stressed or scared? Or a different way to ask: which version of you takes over? When people are presented with high stress or fear, often times they regress to a younger age - toddler, child, teen, etc. That version of the self has taken on the role of ‘protector’.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Part of this country’s problem is that we don’t have any nationally accepted sages or wise elders. Most of the people at the top are immature adults trying to dominate other immature adults. All that gets us is more immature adults.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Many people are experiencing deep grief because some people they love are no longer grounded in reality (facts don’t matter anymore). It can feel like talking to someone that’s slipping away from dementia, except it’s not. They’re here but they’re not here. They’re gone but they’re not gone.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

What happens when a person lives in denial their entire life? They become more susceptible to dementia and dis-ease. “that never happened” When it did. “it doesn’t bother me” When it does. The truth is uncomfortable. It’s also the starting point for healing.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Consider how much of the world is constructed to make you feel like shit about yourself, whole social structures and entire economies dedicated to making you feel like shit about yourself. Not letting things make you feel like shit about yourself automatically aligns you against all that stuff.

submitted 63 days ago • 10 comments

Good little girls don’t get angry. Instead, they grow up to be adults on antidepressants.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Who was your role model for expressing anger in a healthy way? Chances are, you weren’t taught how to express it in a healthy way, or how to hold space for people. Instead, most people over drink, overeat, internalize, demonize, or deny/dismiss it which leads to mental and physical dis-ease.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

1) “The truth is a kind of rare and costly information. The problem of the truth is that the truth tends to be complicated because reality is complicated. And people don’t like complicated stories. Fiction can be made as simple as you would like it to be. (Con’t)

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

The criterion for Time’s Person of the Year = “the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year.” Adolf Hitler was named 'Man of the Year' in 1938, right before Germany invaded Poland. Then Stalin in 1939 and 1942.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Name someone w/ Parkinson’s that doesn’t have complex trauma. A client started convo by saying, “I don’t have trauma.” Then 15 min in he tells me how his squad lost 5 guys on the battlefield. “I wasn’t there, I didn’t see it happen.” No, dude, you were 5km away and now 5 guys short. Still trauma.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

There are sheep, and there are shepherds. The sheep are always seeking someone to tell them what to do and how to think.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

After coming back from deployment in 2016, I paid attention to the wellbeing of soldiers that had a supportive social/family network, and those that didn’t. Those without were at a much higher risk of developing somatic disorders, joint pain, and PTSD. Feeling emotionally safe matters…a lot.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

How are you feeling today?

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Trauma whispers in our words. Ex: people who accuse me of being “woke.” Def: “aware of, and actively attentive to important facts and issues, especially issues of racial and social injustice.” The people accusing me of being “woke” are really signaling that they are choosing to ignore reality.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

I used to think I knew what a shit show was. Like, yeah, sure, it’s a disaster, right? But it turns out, there’s ‘knowing’ and then there’s knowing.

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