Tag: healing
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Overcoming Trauma Avoidance: Steps Towards Healing and Growth
Given the threat system’s proneness to react with full-blown fight or flight response in response to trauma related cues, avoidance of places and activities that remind one of traumatic memories can be both an automatic response to triggers and an active attempt to cope with the impact of trauma. The questions is, how can we…
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2026 Monthly and Weekly Planner With Mindful Compassion Record
I am happy to announce that the 2026 version of Monthly Planner with Sleep Quality/ Mood tracker and Weekly Planner with Mindful Compassion Practice Record is now ready. It is available for free download but any support is appreciated if you find the resources helpful. Monthly Planner with Sleep Quality and Mood TrackerFrom Oct 2025…
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Reassuring Your Mind After Trauma: Mindful Compassion Techniques
In the aftermath of trauma, the threat system in our mind can frequently say to us words like “It’s just like the time when (trauma) happened” in response to minor triggers in the surrounding. Worse still, the threat system can turn to blame us, the victim, because it is easier, feels safer and more in…
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Coping with Flashbacks: Techniques for Trauma Recovery
Flashback refers to re-experiencing traumatic events as if they are happening right now. It can come in various vividity, from intrusive recollection of what happened in the mind to dissociative experiences where one feels like reliving the traumatic event in real time. Flashback is one of the major suffering trauma survivors struggle with because every…
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Traumatic Life Events and Compassion Focused Healing Approaches
Traumatic life event refers to significant event that bring actual or threatened physical and/or psychological harm to us or someone close to us. For example, natural disaster or accident that leads to injury or death, physical violence, sexual violence etc. Traumatic event can lead to intrusive re-experiencing, hypervigilance, avoidance behaviours and emotional distress. The symptoms…
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Coping with Lost Friendships: Emotional Healing
Who doesn’t want to be remembered and loved? It hurts when you drift apart with a friend and later realize that this friend had found a new social circle and together they seem to be having fun and doing all the things you used to do together. You try to recall why you drifted apart…
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The Power of Forgiveness: Healing Beyond Hurt
As a child, we were advised to forgive the sibling who accidentally broke our toy or the classmate who said mean words to us, because that is the right thing to do. When there is conflict, adults usually ask us to say sorry and explain that we should forgive others’ transgression. Growing up, even the…
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