healing
How to heal fully and properly.
Living as a Rare Disease Patient and Advocate During COVID-19 and The Protests
So here I am sitting in my basement looking back at the year 2020 and saying WOW! Who would of expected what has happened in the past six months. I sure wasn’t ready physically and mentally.
By Frank Rivera5 years ago in Motivation
Healing Trauma to Break Cycles
Healing Trauma to Break Cycles Trauma is a deeply distressing or disturbing experience that can manifest into toxic behaviors and or experiences that can be carried with someone for years, and can also be passed down through generations if the behaviors were initiated and learned within the family construct. Trauma can manifest in many ways. The most common way we see Trauma is through irrational reactions to external stimuli such as someone expressing something that someone else may not agree with. However, Trauma can been seen in all aspects of our lives. For example, perhaps you grew up with a mother who was made fun of for being poor as a child. So as an adult, raising her children, she may have required you to be dressed to a T at all times, including being too dressed up, at the wrong times. We may not see this as Trauma at the time, until we become adults and are dressed in our Sundays best even at the grocery store. Trauma can also cause PTSD which is a Mental Illness characterized by flashbacks or constant, uncontrollable thoughts of traumatizing experiences, causing debilitating anxiety and fear of the unknown. Ultimately, Trauma is the leading cause of the pain we feel, the pain we suppress, and the pain we project on to others. Hurt people, do in fact hurt people. This means, it is every ones responsibility to heal our personal trauma to break the cycle of pain for our generations to come. How do we heal Trauma? Here are three ways to begin to heal Trauma and break cycles.
By Alaia Bradshaw5 years ago in Motivation
If You Strip Yourself Of Everything What You Thought You Were!
If You Strip Yourself Of What You Thought You Were, what exactly are you afraid that you'll find out? If You Strip Yourself Of What You Thought You Were, which someone told you, you'd never make it, what do you think is the actual truth?
By Krystyna Milano5 years ago in Motivation
keep hanging on
you wake up exhausted. everyday you slug out of bed, just waiting for the minute you can crawl back into your warm, comfortable cave. you have all these things to do by this certain time but instead you’d rather just sleep or watch netflix. it’s been 4 days since you last took a shower and washed your hair but you don’t feel like getting up and doing that. so day 5 comes along. you slug out of bed again but today feels different. at first you don’t really like the change, it’s weird that smiling came easier today than yesterday. you decide it’s best to not think too hard about it and just keep going through your day. today you take a shower. you feel good after it, you think to yourself “maybe this change isn’t so bad after all.” you wake up the next day and it’s easier to get out of bed, it’s easier to take care of yourself. you have a big day today, you didn’t know it but work had it coming for you. at first you feel dread but then after 5 hours you realize you’ve blow through your work.
By Nikki5 years ago in Motivation
I am now Learning to live Comfortably after Trauma
I spent all my life from an early age enduring trauma after trauma, from rape, violence, break-ins, life on the streets to losing everything. After going through this for many long years, I am now changing it. I feel safe where I live and secure in my home, however I have a tough time adjusting, and I constantly have to reassure myself that I won't go through all that trauma again.
By Carol Ann Townend5 years ago in Motivation
Forever Thirteen
I came across this contest whilst scrolling through tattoo inspiration and with 45 minutes left on the clock. As a person who doesn’t believe in coincidence I knew I needed to put my story out there for others. I am someone whom is covered in tattoos so as some of you can probably imagine if you’ve succumbed to the needles, not all of them have meaning. I have a few that serve as nothing other than mobil canvas and additional scar coverage but these two in particular have great meaning and were amongst my first.
By Jeskuh5 years ago in Motivation
The Other Side of Fear
Hi everybody! My name is Krystal, I am turning 40 this year and up until 2017 my life was, for the most part, everything I had ever wanted and worked for. I had my kids, two young men who are now 20 and 17; my own place, an apartment, but it was perfect for the three of us; my fur babies, two miniature schnauzers and two kitties; my career, a certified veterinary technician for 16 years; my car, nothing fancy, but it was freedom.
By Krystal 5 years ago in Motivation
Loud As Thunder
Here we go again, it's the game we love. My eyes are pretty heavy from he weight on my heart, yet I have no tears left as I let out a silent cry earlier. Listening to one of my favorite artist's, Jhene Aiko "Speak" and it was like a dagger shot through my chest straight into my very soul that's been aching. Some would call it an "inner cry", which I like that description quite frankly. It's as if the well has ran dry and the blood coursing through my veins came to an halt. Sounds depressing right? It's suppose to when you suddenly come to realize how mummified heart is still fragile.
By Thunder Snow5 years ago in Motivation
Never Alone
When I was in grade 6 my friend, Hannah, and I had “special” pens that we would use to “tattoo” ourselves and other kids. These pens were probably just regular pens. I think they were gel pens. I think we had four of them. The plastic was transparent and the same colour as the ink. We thought they were the cats' meow, the bees' knees, and somebody's pajamas.
By Sheri Sebbelov5 years ago in Motivation
Elephants
The story of my tattoo... well it started when I was 18, in my graduating year of high school, when I got sick. I got so sick that my doctor had me hospitalized. It was about 3 months living in the hospital until the doctors were able to figure out what was wrong. At that point I was diagnosed with a very rare blood disorder that is a form of cancer.
By Marissa Derkatch5 years ago in Motivation
