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Your Life Purpose Finds You authentic self and purpose cptsd and life purpose magic of presence in healing neuroscience of trauma and spiritual growth trauma healing and life purpose Aug 05, 2024

Today’s Fairy Dusted Lesson:


I’m about to take the pressure off what your life’s purpose is. 

An interesting thing is happening to me the more I learn about the neuroscience of trauma:  I feel the need to level up my spirituality (by joining a cult, just...

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Fawns are Red Shirts childhood indoctrination cptsd emotional blackmail emotional manipulation family dynamics healing identity and life purpose impact of favoritism on personality people pleasers Jul 29, 2024

The Irreverent Imposter Syndrome Guide deconstructs Imposter Syndrome so you can be yourself and not an imposter anymore.  One side effect of less imposter syndrome is MORE JOYYYYYYYY!!!!!  


Omg “not accepting praise is being cold and not allowing myself to connect to...

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What the soul wants codependency cptsd fawn response Jul 16, 2024

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“The human soul doesn’t want to be advised, fixed or saved.  It simply wants to be witnessed – to be seen, heard and companioned exactly as is.”
– Parker Palmer

 

I hate daily email, but there is one I subscribe...

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Winning the Comparison Game cptsd healing imposter syndrome the age of magical overthinking by amanda montell tools for trauma healing Jul 08, 2024

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I have some really interesting news for you.  If you take it in, you’ll be a lot freer than most of people on the planet.

Whoever you’re comparing yourself to right now is dealing with some dark shit that you don’t want any...

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Forty-Six Years and We Still Haven't Conquered Imposter Syndrome Jun 24, 2024

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If you’re like me, you are working on feeling safer in your own skin.  One hack we created along the way to survive and to participate in our lives and some of our dreams is that we settled for having imposter syndrome.  Because society...

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Getting Misdiagnosed as a CPTSD Kid cptsd May 28, 2024

Magical Lesson:

In this video, I answer a question about Attachment and getting misdiagnosed when you have CPTSD.  If we follow the thread of our issues, we can see that most if not all have their roots in some kind of childhood pain. 

Magical Action Step*:

A few questions you can ask...

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I Should Do Something Because My Wife Hinted She Wanted It cptsd ladder of trust May 21, 2024

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Magical Lesson:

Last week I sent you an excerpt from The Irreverent Trust Guide, so this week I made a video to show you how I would use the tool on a particular question.  I applied The Ladder of Trust on a question to an advice columnist on what...

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Which Difficult Path Will You Choose cptsd recovery and trust building the body keeps the score book club the irreverent trust guide tools for trauma healing May 14, 2024

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Please join us for the next Trauma Book Book Club class and I will be teaching from The Body Keeps the Score on the CPTSD brain’s tug-of-war and teach 2 tools about how we attract each other at our level of mental health. You don’t have to...

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Understanding Psychological Fields & Van Der Kolk's 'The Watchtower' cptsd psychological field study and trauma the watchtower in trauma recovery van der kolk's the body keeps the score insights May 06, 2024

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This is a clip from the last class I taught. I was asked a question about a Field Study and I used a soccer field as a metaphor for the psychological field. Below is the explanation I taught and what Van Der Kolk means when he talks about "The Watchtower" in...

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Closure is Not a Thing advanced personal growth techniques for cptsd overcoming the need for closure in trauma healing understanding closure in cptsd and ptsd recovery Apr 30, 2024

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Magical Lesson:

My next few lessons will be on the ever elusive “closure” we’re looking for.

The first thing to know about closure is seeking it outside of yourself is not a thing. Here are some things that people use the word closure...

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Don't Follow Your Dreams cptsd repetition compulsion Apr 23, 2024


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Join us this Saturday for the Trauma Book Book Club where we'll be talking about how part of the brain that's the alarm system for our brain and a few tools that can help us remind ourselves that we're safe.


Recently, a friend made a big leap in following...

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Being the Bigger Person is Toxic Behavior Apr 02, 2024

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Magical Lesson:

It’s time to finally be free from having to be “the Bigger Person.” How Advanced Bitches do that is to really get the magnifying glass out and fully deconstruct what it means to be “the bigger person.”

Being...

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