Therapy brings many benefits including self-awareness, better coping skills and the ability to gain happiness in your future.

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“Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life." 
- Akshay Dubey

“After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.” 
― Judith Lewis Herman

“We now know that trauma compromises the brain area that communicates the physical, embodied feeling of being alive. These changes explain why traumatized individuals become hypervigilant to threat at the expense of spontaneously engaging in their day-to-day lives. They also help us understand why traumatized people so often keep repeating the same problems and have such trouble learning from experience. We now know that their behaviors are not the result of moral failings or signs of lack of willpower or bad character–they are caused by actual changes in the brain”
- Bessel A. Van Der Kolk, "The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma"

"I am not good enough"
"I don't deserve to be loved"
"I am not strong enough"
"I am out of control"
"I don't deserve anything good in life"
"I can do better, be better"

Anxiety:

• a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.

• a nervous disorder characterized by a state of excessive uneasiness and apprehension, typically with compulsive behavior or panic attacks.

​Do you ever wish that your feelings would just go away? You just don’t have the time to deal with the emotions that are present and maybe they remind you of your past.

You get to be the author of your story. Your past does not have to be your definition, your identity. Can you imagine!?

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

“What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful."
​- Brene Brown

"Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others."
- Brene Brown

When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated.
- Brene Brown

Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn’t make me mean, selfish, or uncaring (just) because I don’t do things your way. I care about me, too.
- Christine Morgan

Whatever you are willing to put up with, is exactly what you will have.  ―Anonymous

Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn