It’s Not All In Your Head

This is a blog that’s solely devoted to the book in progress that my partner and I are writing. Follow this blog for book updates, snippets and overall information.

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Please feel free to send me asks requesting specific validation/positivity content!

I am more likely to respond to asks to my personal @aprilthegayqueen just because I try to keep this blog more content based.

I also am a mod on a group blog that answers trauma advice asks @traumasurvivorshelpingsurvivors

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[itsnotallinyourhead]

Just an update this is still happening.

Been dealing with a lot of financial struggles and focusing on helping my partner find a job.

Expect more updates soon.

[itsnotallinyourhead]

Just an update this is still happening.

Been dealing with a lot of financial struggles and focusing on helping my partner find a job.

Expect more updates soon.

[itsnotallinyourhead]

How I best learn information as a trauma survivor: humor. I realize it could be really hard to communicate a healthy nuance when adding humor to something as serious as trauma, but have found that things like self-grandiose humor (ex: because you're a badass, because you're so powerful that nature had to nerf you, etc.) has a better chance of not being misinterpreted as too insensitive while also lending a hand to practicing positive self talk. It starts out humorous at first, but you could still steadily nurture yourself into believing it. Personifying the hard science parts of things, such as giving parts of the brain personalities and explaining concepts as a narrative, helps me better sympathize with myself, too. It's like me and all parts of my brain are trying our best to get along, though we function differently and trick each other sometimes, if that makes sense.

These are some great ideas!

I had actually considered trying to put humour into the book, at least some light-heartedness, but was trying to figure out how to navigate that in a way that works. I love the tips!

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I’m reaching out to all of you to get feedback on how you best learn information. 

I’m thinking about including colorful diagrams to help give visuals aids. 

I’m also thinking that instead of just giving the information, I will talk about how it can be applied in real life using examples. 

I’m aiming for a more conversational tone that is speaking directly to survivors of trauma instead of how most academic articles are written for other academics to “study” trauma. I want this book to speak directly to survivors and offer validation and understanding of what may be happening physically and mentally as a result of trauma.

Any feedback or suggestions you have are welcomed. 

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It’s Not All In Your Head: The Impact of Trauma on the Body and Mind

The Brain

One of our sections will be about the parts of the brain that can be impacted when you go through trauma. This will include the Amygdala, Prefrontal Cortex and the Hippocampus. After exploring these, we will then discuss how they can affect someone including the impacts upon emotional regulation, how your alarm system can be triggered as well as how your memories may be impacted. 

The information from this chapter will also be used to validate survivors and let them know that their reactions are normal and not a sign of weakness and are not their fault. 

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It’s Not All In Your Head: The Impact of Trauma on the Body and Mind

Flashbacks

One of our chapters we plan to write is going to be focused on flashbacks. 

Some information we’ve discovered in our sources so far talks about how certain parts of the brain are involved within an event that forms flashbacks. 

Having flashbacks as a symptom is not a sign of weakness or anything like that, and information in this chapter will hopefully provide evidence about why this is true. 

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I think you doing this is awesome and I’m excited to see where it goes

Thank you, anon!

The support means so much to both of us. It’s already been so much work but it’ll be worth it!

[itsnotallinyourhead]

I had a couple asks on @traumasurvivors about the book.

I’ve now opened asks here (anon is on) if you have any questions.

[itsnotallinyourhead]

This blog is to focus on the writing of a book my partner and I are writing together.

Currently, the title we are planning to use is: “It’s Not All In Your Head: The Impact of Trauma on the Body and Mind”.

This book will be focusing on reading academic articles, books and journals to put the information into more accessible terms. A lot of these articles are hard to understand and may be overwhelming.

Our goal is to simplify things and make them more straight forward while offering a gentle and guiding narrative that focuses on speaking to survivors directly and not on people working with survivors like a lot of them are. This is intended to help validate survivors and give a better understanding of what may be going on physically with trauma.