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Orbitofrontal Cortex: Your Brain’s Socio-Visual Compass

Orbitofrontal Cortex – Your Brain’s Socio-Emotional Compass The orbitofrontal cortex controls how we respond to social stimuli, cognitive decisions are made here

January 23, 2020January 24, 2020 Cheryl

Is it a look of love or hatred? Can I trust this person or not? Will he/she be the right partner for me? How do we make these calculated choices? Your sensory system takes in [Read More;]

11 Tips To Help You Really Heal From Childhood Trauma Being aware of your internal and external world will help you on your healing journey

December 31, 2019 Cheryl

As another year comes to an end, I feel optimistic that the New Year will be much better. I am in a better place mentally and physically. It’s been nearly 3 years since I have [Read More;]

Healing Scoliosis: Oral De-Armoring To Release The Primal Scream Reliving our repressed primal pain helps release our oral armor thus healing scoliosis

December 27, 2019 Cheryl

I have written two posts on armoring, first as protective body armor against sexual molestation. The second post, ocular armor – our first line of defense. We psychically shut our eyes to the unbearable reality [Read More;]

Self-Differentiation – Un-Enmeshed From Other People’s Sh*t Becoming self-differentiated is critical to living meaningful and authentic lives

December 16, 2019 Cheryl

We survivors of childhood trauma have been programmed to take on the shit of the family. To survive we have to totally annihilate our needs, feelings, and dreams. Our life is not our own but [Read More;]

Narcissistic Altruism: Scheming Do-Gooders Who Prey On The Needy Narcsissists are more interested in helping themselves than helping others

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 Cheryl

It is hard to believe that there are people out there who use the cloak altruism for their own benefit. For many of us naive desperate souls, it can be devastating to realize that benevolence [Read More;]

Oxytocin Bind: Survivors Need To Relearn The Language of Love Survivors of childhood trauma have a skewed understanding of love

November 11, 2019November 18, 2019 Cheryl

In general survivors of childhood trauma have trouble negotiating adult relationships. Either we push people away by erecting defensive walls or we become a magnet for cunning predators We are confused whether a person really [Read More;]

Healing My Life from Incest to Joy: A Survivor’s Guidebook Donna shares her pain and struggle dealing with incest while offering hope and healing to other survivors

November 3, 2019November 4, 2019 Donna Jenson

Healing My Life from Incest to Joy is a memoir of the choices I made and experiences that helped me heal from childhood trauma. The book offers hope to survivors of child sexual abuse Breaking [Read More;]

Prince Harry Is Not A Good Advocate For Mental Health Prince Harry needs to be aware how his behavior influences sufferers of mental illness

October 27, 2019 Cheryl

Prince Harry has become an uninspiring advocate for mental health. With his resources and family support, he could have been a great role model for those grappling with depression and mental illness. I was really [Read More;]

Healing Scoliosis – The Horse Stance For Core Strength The horse stance effectively stabilizes your core and aligns your spine

October 10, 2019October 17, 2019 Cheryl

Since my earlier post on growing a strong backbone, and standing up for ourselves I have realized that it is not enough to mentally think tough. I had made some progress but was unable. to [Read More;]

Scoliosis & Codependency – Growing A Strong Backbone Scoliosis is a manifestation of taking on responsibilities that our not really ours

August 30, 2019 Cheryl

In my earlier posts, I have mentioned how suppressing my needs and feelings were the reasons for developing scoliosis. After my mother died, I had to become responsible. The woman of the house. At age [Read More;]

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