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How Our Childhood Emotional Maps Influence our Relationships

12/23/2017

Great article summarizing how our relationships are influenced by unconscious childhood conditioning. I think getting past these issues is more complicated than the author makes it out to be, but otherwise it's a great article!

www.businessinsider.com/the-reason-dating-is-so-miserable-isnt-them-its-you-2017-12

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Our Obsession with Release is Hurting Us

12/20/2017

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Appreciating those who are re-thinking our cultural obsession with relaxation and release. It's just so much more complicated than that!

"Zero tension equals collapse and, in the case of the autonomic nervous system’s response to threat, feigning death. The feign death/submit/collapse responses all involve a lack of tension in the body, going limp or hypotoncity...

...getting out of a chronically collapsed state is very difficult because we actually feel lifeless, there’s no energy or tension to harness to mobilize ourselves. For this very reason, the habitual cue to release, soften, and let go in yoga classes is not useful for many trauma survivors. For a trauma survivor who escaped more psychological or physical harm by feigning death, constantly releasing tension can exacerbate this sense of collapse, immobility, and helplessness...

We can only truly release when we have a sound physical and psychological container to release into."

www.elephantjournal.com/2017/12/our-obsession-with-releasing-letting-go-is-hurting-us/

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December 19th, 2017

12/19/2017

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"I’ve come to the conclusion that throwing tantrum is actually a good thing because every tantrum is an opportunity for learning emotional regulation and for brain sculpting."

www.parentingforbrain.com/deal-toddler-temper-tantrums/

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How to Cope with the Current Media Cycle as a Sexual Abuse Survivor

12/19/2017

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Excellent resource. Sending love to all those who have experienced sexual trauma or harassment of any kind.

<3

lifehacker.com/how-to-cope-with-the-current-news-cycle-as-a-sexual-abu-1820823444

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Not-Self vs. Self-Love

12/2/2017

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I love this beautiful representation of the ultimate and the relative when it comes to self - not-self and self-love. Created by the talented and wise Jen Eckard!

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