Self-Care as a Second Language Archives - Heal Write Now for Trauma Survivors & Adults Abused as Children https://healwritenow.com Writing & Inspiration to Heal Trauma Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:51:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.5 Waking Up https://healwritenow.com/waking-up/ https://healwritenow.com/waking-up/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:51:42 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=4906 Another free-write. Each morning I wake up and make my coffee. Then, I go sit for a moment. I can’t really meditate so I don’t ask that of myself anymore. I just sit. Still. For a bit. Sometimes I put moisturizer on my hands, massage them and smell the vanilla. Sometimes I clang a bell […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/waking-up/feed/ 3 Joy Juice: Drips & Sips https://healwritenow.com/joy-juice-drips-sips/ https://healwritenow.com/joy-juice-drips-sips/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:00:58 +0000 https://healwritenow.com/?p=4884 I suck at joy. It’s that simple. It’s a practice I’ve not practiced that much. I’m not good at it, and it’s not comfortable. I don’t prioritize it or even always get what people mean when they talk about joy. It’s how I used to feel about self-care, to be honest. Kind of clueless and […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/joy-juice-drips-sips/feed/ 2 Healing Proof: The Words & Work of Rick Hanson https://healwritenow.com/healing-proof-the-words-work-of-rick-hanson/ https://healwritenow.com/healing-proof-the-words-work-of-rick-hanson/#comments Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:34:51 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=4834 I’ve been thinking and talking a good deal about Rick Hanson since my recent break-up. It’s the work I’ve done, that I’ve learned from him, that has made such a deep and profound change in my own healing. Healing is such a soft sounding word and what I feel is a new sense of being, […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/healing-proof-the-words-work-of-rick-hanson/feed/ 1 Survivors OWN ACEs: Day 3 (30 Days After Oprah) https://healwritenow.com/survivors-aces-day-3-30-days-oprah/ https://healwritenow.com/survivors-aces-day-3-30-days-oprah/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:13:22 +0000 http://healwritenow.com/?p=4684 Day 3 Aha: ACE Scores Matter & How Not to Die Early (Day 2, Day 1/Intro) On 60 Minutes, Oprah reported the following: “For anyone, a high score on the ACE test is a powerful predictor of physical and mental problems down the road. According to the Centers for Disease Control, it makes you five […]

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]]> https://healwritenow.com/survivors-aces-day-3-30-days-oprah/feed/ 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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