Something may or may not be "worth" getting upset over-- but that evaluation happens in the front of your brain. You're getting fired (or f*cked) up from the middle of your brain. It takes breathing & evocative mental imagery & physiological soothing to dial down, not a lecture.

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Beware therapists who talk about therapy like a religion-- mysterious, only accessible via a "priesthood" of those who know the ancient "magic," &/or an abstract solution to anything you might be struggling with.

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It's real important we not make changing our habits-- including our eating & exercise habits, if that's what we need to do for our health & self-esteem-- into punishment. NO change is worth tanking our relationship w/ ourselves. We NEED that relationship to be safe & stable.

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LOVE💌 #art #illustration

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Survivors working their trauma recovery have had to think about more philosophy, more psychology, & more physiology than most normies will in a lifetime-- & that can create a conversational disconnect that can feel awkward & surreal. Caterpillars don't speak butterfly.

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