Healing Our Younger Selves
We all experience trauma during our lives and it is important that we don’t compare our trauma with someone else’s experience.
It is not a competition.
Anything that causes you fear, pain, discomfort, a sense of loss, feeling unsupported, powerless or humiliated can trigger a traumatic event. Sometimes we can work through it and move on.
However, as children, if our childhood trauma is not acknowledged by adults who care for us and we are not given the correct counselling, we bury it deep within us.
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- Written by: Pat Pughe-Parry
- Category: Mental Health
One Year to Seventy
Dave and I have lived in a home for Senior Citizens for the past 5 years where there are approximately 90 residents between the ages of 55 and 93.
I have just turned 69 and I am finding it difficult to comprehend why it is freaking me out. I don’t feel old. Okay, I could be healthier, fitter and thinner. I like the wrong foods and being summer, it is too hot to exercise. Yes, I have a busy brain and a lazy body.
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- Written by: Pat Pughe-Parry
- Category: The Elderly
