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What Are Pseudoseizures? Understanding Psychogenic Seizures in Trauma Survivors
Remember, trauma lives in the body…….. Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), are seizure-like episodes that look and feel like epileptic seizures—but they’re not caused by abnormal electrical activity in the brain. …
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What to Do Instead of Faking It All the Time Some days, pretending to be okay feels safer than telling the truth. You already know what happens when you cry …
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You Don’t Have to Keep Fighting. You’re Allowed to Heal.
There comes a time when the world will keep handing you more work to do.More injustice to confront.More family pain to resolve.More people to carry. And often, they hand it …
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When Love Is a Lie: Understanding Grooming Beyond Childhood
Because grooming doesn’t stop at 18. It just gets harder to prove. We are taught to see grooming as something that happens to children.But many Survivors know the truth: Adults …
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Weight Gain After Trauma Isn’t Just Emotional—It’s Biological
Let’s stop lying to Survivors. Let’s stop telling people who have lived through violation, abandonment, abuse, and neglect to just “push the plate away” like food is the problem—when safety …
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You Were Never Meant to Carry What He Refused to Unpack
For the woman who’s been told her standards are too high—stand taller. Sister,Let’s tell the truth today. They say: “That’s just how men are.”“If you want love, you’re going to …
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When Thinness Was a Virtue: 1980s Body Ideals and the Cost to Women’s Health
We woke upto pastel lycra and a bounce in the beat—We started with aerobics at dawn,counted every calorie by noon,and aimed for a “beach body” by dusk. Jump, twist, squeeze, …
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It’s Not Just in Your Head: Trauma, Migraines, and the Truth About Pain
You’ve been told your migraines are emotional.“Just relax,” they say.But your head doesn’t pound from willful choice.It pounds because your body remembers. 💥 Central Healing Truth Migraines can be …
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Saying Yes When You Mean No Is a Silent Form of Self-Betrayal
They will keep coming backto your spirit, your softness, your giving hands—as long as you let them. But you were never meant to be the onewho saves everyonewhile drowning quietly …