How to ensure your trauma healing is a virtuous circle of post traumatic growth rather than a vicious cycle of PTSD
Jan Normanton • December 26, 2024
Part of healing from trauma is to move from viewing life through a trauma lens and to develop the capacity for all the good stuff - joy, love, laughter, creativity... which conversely supports our resilience building...
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We look after ourselves, we nurture ourselves, we nourish ourselves, get the basics right – nutrition, hydration, motion, relaxation.
And we avoid stress as much as possible, we avoid gossip, we avoid bad news.
We cultivate an environment of joy, we lean into what brings us joy, we move towards people who bring us joy.
And we get enough rest and relaxation and nourish and nurture ourselves as if we were a little child.
This enhances our resilience and keeps stress at bay.
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