Keith Young, LCPC, CCTP, CH

Trauma and Resilience: Your Questions Answered Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Aimed primarily at teens and young adults, the information, guidance, and resources in this book will also make it valuable for anyone directly or indirectl...

Very happy to report that my first book, "Trauma and Resilience: Your Questions Answered" is now an audiobook on Audible, Amazon and ITunes! Lots of info about trauma recovery and modern treatments. Click to hear a preview!

www.audible.com/pd/B0F2JBNKJ...

Miles Johnston, "The Wound", 2018 Graphite on paper

Posttraumatic growth doesn't mean we give painful life events credit for our development, just as we don't give credit to abusers for a survivor's recovery. Our sense of safety, self-worth and self-efficacy are found not because we've been traumatized, but because we survived.

The kids we once were are still watching and learning. It's true that we can't change the past but recovery ripples backwards as much as it carries us forward.

Spot on buddy heck ya

Trauma often pushes our deepest beliefs in three directions: that we're not safe in this world, that we're not good enough, or that we're unlovable. Rediscover your feelings of safety. Find the truth of your worth. We CAN break free from the falsehoods that burden us.

So Mom wanna see a pic of that writer I talk about who inspires how I write

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Any time

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Your posts are all pretty great don't get me wrong but damn this one's brilliant and now I want to see it happen

The only thing people living with depression tend to fake or exaggerate is the impression of being okay. It gets us through the day, and it works, but at the cost of reinforced isolation. The real survival strategy is letting those walls down and allowing others in when we can.

Go ahead and make eye contact and smile at everybody.  They're a hot mess too.

My newest kitten is Gary and if you think that's the worst possible name for a cat you'd be right but if you met him you'd understand

I haven't heard of the Mankind Project. I don't know much about it but I'm looking at the website now and what I'm seeing looks pretty great. Thanks for telling me about it! To answer your question, I'm a fan of any support group that helps with safe fellowship and growth, big or small.

Some of the greatest feats of strength and courage I've ever seen have been accomplished by people who didn't feel very strong when it was happening.

Congratulations!!!

It's very reasonable for safe relationships to feel dangerous to trauma survivors. When we're both lonely and trying to stay safe, our walls won't come down and our inner alarms never shut off. It's much harder to spot a wolf in sheep's clothing when every sheep looks like a wolf.

Find your people. A trusted friend, family member, professional. Take all the time you need. When painful words are spoken and shared, burdens can lighten. Their power is lost, and ours is reclaimed.

Finding our voices and learning to use them is the antidote for a lifetime of feeling small.

The word "stigma," by definition, acknowledges something deserving of shame. If we keep talking about the imposed stigma of mental illness, let's practice calling it discrimination instead. It's more accurate and puts the shame where it belongs.

#Stigma #mentalhealth

This sounds great!

Oh man this sounds very cool

I think you'd be surprised, especially if you get the word out about it.

Sounds very cool!

Very cool idea for a podcast!

Very cool! I'm happy I found this!

The ACE studies continue to teach us that we're much more prone to chronic inflammation and autoimmune diseases when we've had trauma or neglect prior to the age of 18. It's helpful for our doctors to know, so trauma recovery can be identified and planned as part of the solution