Recovery

Fight is often covering emotions that feel risky to experience, such as: • shame (“I’m wrong, I look stupid”) • hurt (“that stung”) • fear (“I’m not safe, I’ll be rejected”) • powerlessness (“I don’t have a say”) • exposure (“they can see me”) • grief (“I’m alone in this again”) In trauma healing work, we often say: anger is frequently a protector emotion. It’s not fake. It’s protective. It helps the nervous system avoid the deeper emotional pain that feels more dangerous. When you...

The Angry Therapist

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Those triggers happening to you, don’t feel like old memories. They feel like right now. That’s why triggers can be so disorienting. A reminder doesn’t have to be logical. It just has to match a fragment. A tone of voice, a sudden movement, a certain time of night, your body recognizes the pattern before your thinking brain can explain it. Van der Kolk describes how reminders can bring the past back with immediate sensory and emotional intensity, as if the event is happening again. When...

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