Why don't trauma surivors show up for themselves? | CPTSD Podcast
Why don't trauma survivors show up for themselves?
Not showing up for yourself as a childhood trauma survivor is an unconscious choice that all too often is buried in the understanding that we in childhood found ourselves unallowed to be who we were. The problem with understanding the idea of not being able to be us is that that tool is a survival mechanism.
We had to hide from the truth of ourselves due to the ramifications of simply existing, and through healing we reframe. In that reframing we have to recognize that we face the ultimate dilemma of learning to be our authentic selves for the first time. And it’s terrifying, but so worth the effort.
How do you know who you are when you have never been allowed to be yourself? You don’t, until you do. I look at healing as being the moments in which we show up as who we are without judgement, fear, justification, or validation by anyone. Healing is looking at yourself in the mirror and allowing whatever is on the other side to exist.
Showing for yourself is giving yourself the space to be.
Until next time my friend…
Be Unbroken,
-Michael
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Michael@ThinkUnbroken.com