by Elisabeth | Apr 10, 2024 | Defenders, Dissociation, Memory Repression, Recovery
My system is at war right now. Is this more of a war than normal? It’s hard to know. Most of the time, we believe we are feeling the worst we’ve ever felt because we just can’t remember how bad we felt before. That’s also a defender trick to convince us that we...
by Elisabeth | Mar 19, 2024 | Dissociation, Memory Repression, Recovery
As a survivor of trauma, there is nothing more unnerving and disorienting than the process of recovering memories of traumatic events. I despise the unknown. It is difficult to acknowledge there are aspects of my own life of which I have no awareness. It’s scary. It...
by Elisabeth | Jun 9, 2021 | Freedom Fighters, Recovery, Trauma In Society
As people grow cautiously optimistic about returning to some semblance of social interaction, many of us may be more concerned than we are divulging. We may be feeling a bit more comfortable with our aloneness. We may have grown accustomed to a slower pace. We may...
by Elisabeth | Feb 17, 2021 | Defenders, Parenting, Recovery
I don’t watch much television. But I have a habit of watching “This Is Us”. I watch it every Tuesday night when there’s a new episode. My controller tries to shut down any potential emotion, but for some reason, I always seem to manage to move my schedule around...
by Elisabeth | Jan 27, 2021 | Defenders, Dissociation, Recovery
Complex trauma teaches us how to survive in the most difficult circumstances. It teaches us how to stay alive when the odds are against us for extended periods of time. We learn to make survival our most important priority. We learn that nothing else in life really...
