On the Path to Healing Childhood Trauma: What if you were done with deep?

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On the Path to Healing Childhood Trauma: What if you were done with deep?

To my fellow, deep-diving sufferers.  Friends, men and women of a certain age.  There is no doubt that there has been trauma.  There is no doubt that I have put in the time to be aware of and feel my pain.  Even today, I am just in a bad feeling mood and I feel it.

I have looked for connections, sought the blind spots, and tracked the family of origin story back generations.  I looked my abuser in the eye, made my peace, took responsibility where it was mine and released myself for the responsibility of others’ behavior.  I connected with like-minded men and women; I have completed the 4th step in 3 programs. 

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Love Yourself — Inside Out

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Love Yourself — Inside Out

Amy Poehler has an upcoming new movie, Inside Out.  Anything Amy Poehler does is cause for celebration in my mind.  In this animated film she voices Joy, one of the emotions living inside the head of Riley, a young girl who moves to San Francisco with her family.  The story personifies Riley’s emotions and chaos and comedy ensue.  We are assured that all will be well and Riley and her family will learn something by the end of the film; this is a Disney movie, after all.

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