#trauma healing

[stargazers-satellite]

my partner said something that kinda rocked my world

[toyboxcore]

Reminders from Skeletor by hopehealingarts

[yuna-is-tired-sm]

[baby0moth]

Age regression or inner child healing doesn't need aesthetic or aesthetically pleasing

Inner child healing is hard and messy

It's okay if your healing journey doesn't look like what is shown online

[puddingcup-heart]

made this for myself bc i had such a bad day yesterday :( but hopefully it can help others with ideas to cope & survive a rough day too ☁️🧸💗 (sorry i think there’s typos even though i tried to check multiple times, i am dyslexic •_•)

[makingsenseofwhathappened]

“Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.”

-Bessel van der Kolk

I think the world mostly sees trauma as the bad thing that happens to you in the moment – the headlining event of pain.

But to me, life is more a tumbling sequence of smaller moments, the real damage being what follows when no one sticks around to see what the main event did to you.

Or turned you into.

In light of that, I'd like to recommend The Body Keeps the Score where van der Kolk vividly dissects how pain lives in and pummels the body until someone finally bears witness to what happened.

His work has reconfigured my understanding of healing, which really does start, I think, with being believed. By others if you’re lucky, or by yourself at the very least if you’re not.

TL;DR: It's incredible how much you lose waiting to be believed.

😱🥰

[nadielle]

love should feel boring, ordinary, not 'special', not 'spicy', waits patiently, grows softly, calm, respectful, caring, shy at times, leaves you feeling cared for and sated, doesn't leave you thinking each tone and detail, doesn't leave you anxious, doesn't ask for a fee for every time you want to be seen.

[aaru-aaruji]

empathatic cuz i know what it's like thinking the only way out was death