Wednesday check in with 🔥 02/10/21

Hiya peeps welcome to the Wednesday check in with you friend 🔥.

Hope you all are doing pawsome today, but if not that's ok too.

Icebreaker: if you could live in a video game world, which game would you choose?

Today's topic is on dealing with trauma through courage!.

What is the true meaning of courage?

Mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty.

Courage, It’s the stuff of heroes, right? Frodo with the Ring in Mordor, William Wallace and the uprising, Henry V once more into the breach, ‘Sully Sullenberger’ parking his broken plane on the Hudson.

‘Courage’ isn’t necessarily a word we think of as all that relevant to recovering from trauma. But I think it’s literally at the heart of everything we do. It takes courage to recover and heal from trauma. It takes courage to make the changes in your life that can lead you to a safer and more secure place. And it takes courage to come in touch with painful feelings and unbearable memories and discuss them. Courage gives you strength to face your pain or grief. Courage enables you to overcome fear. Courage is being open, honest, and truthful with yourself and how you express your feelings.

It’s true: the past is the past, what is done is done, and the best way to live life is to keep moving forward.

But when you’re a trauma victim, the past is never out of reach. It’s haunting the edges of everyday life, threatening to destroy any happiness or sense of safety you might erect Trauma is one of the most difficult things to talk about. We are afraid to speak about our own trauma and we are afraid to hear about others’.It’s messy, scary and uncomfortable.

There is no easy answer and no quick fix to the brokenness that results from traum.

Courage emanates from both the head and the heart. All transformation in life takes courage, and overcoming trauma is no different. After trauma, we can sometimes feel disconnected. In moments like this, take time out to be quiet and find the courage from that spot within you, and notice what it feels like. It is this energy within that helps you take one step further to moving beyond trauma.

The idea of living a big, brave life going forward may seem far fetched, but with a little patience and a bit of courage we can live a brave life. Constructing a post-trauma identity is all about choosing who you are,The objective is for the past to become a very tiny part of your very large, confident, capable, and free self.

Questions of the day:

What have you done that took courage?

What's something courageous you can do today?

A few quotes.

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela

Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun."

~don Miguel Ruiz

“You are not a side effect of your life, you are an active participant in your own well-being.”

P.T., a 40 year old woman, reflecting on what it means to face herself in psychotherapy.

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” Aristotle.

A few links.

https://www.carolynspring.com/blog/courage/

Very good article about courage and trauma, a must read imo.

https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/ss/slideshow-emotional-trauma-self-care

https://safespaceradio.com/profiles-in-mental-health-and-courage/

https://www.ted.com/talks/susan_david_the_gift_and_power_of_emotional_courage/transcript

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