Love Notes to You: How-To Archives - Heal Write Now for Trauma Survivors & Adults Abused as Children https://healwritenow.com Writing & Inspiration to Heal Trauma Sat, 13 Jun 2015 11:45:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.5 Mindful Trauma is Hard with a Mind Full of Trauma https://healwritenow.com/mindful-trauma-is-hard-with-a-mind-full-of-trauma/ https://healwritenow.com/mindful-trauma-is-hard-with-a-mind-full-of-trauma/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:58:17 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=3122 My favorite color thinking is black and white. And mindfulness is all rainbow complex. I’m a resistant recruit to this be here now stuff. It feels so impossible at times when the past is a race car  endlessly looping in my nervous system. Learning to get out of survival mode is like driving through life in reverse. The […]

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