replacing empty thoughts and compulsive reassuring myself that "everyone loves me" with "i'm doing this for myself"
It is crucial for deeper level recovery that we learn that feelings of fear, shame and guilt are sometimes signs that we have said or done the right thing. They are emotional flashbacks to how we were traumatized for trying to claim normal human privileges.
As our recovery progresses, we need to learn to endure these feelings. Reinterpreting the deeper meaning of these feelings is key to accomplishing this. Typically this involves epiphanies like the following. “I feel afraid now, but I am not in danger like I was as a child.” “I feel guilty not because I am guilty, but because I was intimidated into feeling guilty for expressing my opinions, my needs and my preferences.” “I feel shame because my parents rained disgust on me for being me. I say no to these toxic parental curses, and I am proud and right to see how they tried to murder my soul. I give them their shame back as disgust- the disgust any healthy adult feels when he sees a parent bullying a child with contempt, or when he sees a parent heartlessly ignoring a suffering child.”
-Pete Walker- Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map For Recovering From Childhood Trauma (2013)
RANDOM BUTTONS FOUND ON THE REMNANTS OF THE EARLY WEB DURING A SURFING SESH FROM EARLIER TODAY.... ENJOY?
(ko-fi)
Gus, 2007
size: 99x56 | stamps made by me
(they aren't animated cause I can't be bothered animating 8 stamps at once sorry)
💼Today's Miku figure is:💼
Taito Fashion Preppy prize figure ver. (2025)
Teto in some goth lolita pleases 🥺
ok!
i need a degree of attention that literally just doesn’t even exist
ITS U,M RABBIT HOLE ANON I CANT REMEMBER IF YOU MADE RABBIT HOLE STAMPS OR IF IM CRAZY
i have, i've made theses for the template:
but i've made these before too:
Ok sooooo. and DON'T be mad. We're going to boil you.