Category: Emotional Survival Skills
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It resonates remarkably well with my experience. I may write more about it later, but for now, I’ll just leave it here for reference. https://open.substack.com/pub/suzybliss997/p/soul-murder-the-clinical-name-for
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Inspiration from Marigolds I’ve been watching a lot of videos from Joe Hudson and Art of Accomplishment recently. They have all been really compelling. In this video, one of the things he talks about is sharing songs with his daughters. There is one moment when he name drops a song called Marigolds, and how he…
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Dad, Your arrest upended my life. I nearly didn’t make it past that part of my life because of how tightly I was attached to you, and how much difficulty I had adjusting to the new reality of your arrest, your crimes, and your mental health diagnosis. When I had to let go of my…
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Growing up, I learned that I needed to be superhuman. I needed to be omniscient, needed to be ahead of my dad, predicting what was going to happen so I could be ahead of him. I also learned that he needed his computers to work all the time. Though he built them and upgraded the…
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Wow! This is an amazing video that defines each emotion (fear, anger, etc.) and explains what it is telling you. I’ve been working on feeling my emotions, so I’m some ways, this is a step past where I am focused right now, but it seems like a really useful map once I’ve identified what I’m…
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I’m listening to “All There Is” by Anderson Cooper and there is an episode with Whoopi Goldberg. She is talking about when her mom died and how she started to feel like she was withdrawing to an unhealthy level and she said that she knew she was in trouble because: Nobody wants this for you.…
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It’s an interesting thought/feeling to have… In order to be safe, I need my dad to be safe, and in order for him to be safe, I need to be unsafe. It sounds non-sensical, doesn’t it? How can this be logically true? Well, in pure logic terms, it doesn’t work. Ah, it’s funny because dad…
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I’ve been working through the process of living with the legacy of trauma. The overwhelming, unbearable, and unbelievable thoughts and feelings. For a long time, I tried to push them away so they wouldn’t hurt me. And it worked for a good long while. Then one day, I found that pushing those feelings away was…
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…and continues to save it. It was a place to put my grief when it wasn’t shared in my family of origin. In it, I could see a whole show about people who were living difficult lives, and I could see myself in their emotional lives. In many ways, my life was so much easier…
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I’m having a love/hate relationship with these substack articles. They keep hitting the nail on the head. It’s hard to believe that someone who doesn’t even know me can describe my experience so much more vividly then those who I grew up with. https://open.substack.com/pub/mytherapist/p/why-getting-healthier-can-make-you?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=19bxf3