Dr. Ashley Southard

🦋 Expert on the Overfunctioning Woman in Love ❤️‍🩹 Relationship & Trauma Therapist for 20+ Years 🔥 You’re not crazy, let’s un-gaslight your brain

[Dr. Ashley Southard @DrAshleyS]

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🖤 Celebrating Juneteenth 🖤
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#juneteenth #blacklivesmatter #eraseracism #racialtraumaisreal https://t.co/I17qv617Vd

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Confronting your own internalized racism.
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Admitting to your partner you've had an affair.
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Checking into rehab after driving drunk with your child in the car.
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These are the gut-wrenching awakenings that… https://t.co/PXlDLEHbEg

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We've all heard of Dr. Gary Chapman's bestselling book and model for relationship connection, The 5 Love Languages®. In this book, Dr. Chapman narrows down the primary ways partners give and receive love into five… https://t.co/rni4GIxAy8

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Do you ever have a bad body image day (or week, month, or year)?
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In this week's Recovery Hacks, a weekly video series I do for my global virtual community, TheHealthyWeighOut Circle of HOPE, I offer our members… https://t.co/YO4oANPCWJ

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An emotionally mature and healthy intimate relationship is between two adult Partners, each of whom carry their fair share of the emotional "work" to keep the relationship thriving and connected. This means both… https://t.co/uXFdAijhaS

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The human psyche's ability to HEAL is unparalleled. No matter the trauma...no matter the time that has lapsed...you CAN absolutely be freed from the lasting effects of some of life's most painful and scarring… https://t.co/ppZp1Y5e6C

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When steeped in an eating disorder and/or negative body image, spending time in the mirror is like putting yourself in front of a firing squad and asking them to take their best shots. It's an incredibly painful… https://t.co/o6wA29lo42

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Emotional and binge eating is not an eating problem.
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It's an emotional solution created by a younger version of yourself at a time when you didn't know a better way to handle your emotions, likely because you… https://t.co/OEtRVl1HTv

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The Highly Sensitive Child
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The sand at the beach agitates her.
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Nursery rhymes make him feel so sad.
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A surprise trip to Disneyland is more overwhelming than exciting.
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A new playground evokes a "shy"… https://t.co/GceUGG2aW2

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Have your ever had the experience of ignoring that gut feeling, only to regret this decision later on when the thing you sensed would happen actually did? This is the worst!
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Why do we so readily ignore our… https://t.co/VkPiTskANA

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"But I'm just trying to help!"
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Have you ever found yourself working hard to help someone with their problem or project, only to feel like you're caring more about it than they are and your help is not being… https://t.co/LbF4s7HvmI

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"Inner child"
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"Real Self"
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"Trauma work"
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You've probably heard these terms before, but aren't really sure what they mean and, more importantly, how to do them in your own life.
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Well today's self-help… https://t.co/dxOoTYAM8t

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If Mother's Day brings up complicated feelings for you, that's ok. And you're certainly not alone.

This post recognizes all of you beautiful men and women out there who are struggling today because...
- Having a mom… https://t.co/vm52PAu38b

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For some trauma survivors, wearing a face mask and/or seeing others wear a face mask can be incredibly triggering. The sensorial experience of your mouth being covered, your breathing being affected, and/or only… https://t.co/5pNBdC2VnP

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Severe, chronic trauma leaves in its path devastation, darkness, and chaos. It leaves you grasping to figure out what’s real and what’s not, with endless doubt surrounding every thought, decision, response, and… https://t.co/5yIyicMgQ4

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As government officials start to discuss when and how to re-open our cities, I know a lot of people are grappling with the discrepancy between when they CAN return to work/school/community events versus when they… https://t.co/d2Gepw25Jv

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Anger is to feelings what carbs are to eating...so very important, incredibly misunderstood, and too quickly cut out.
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And just like carbs, there are healthier forms of anger and less healthy forms of anger (such… https://t.co/XOBdGKDd5C

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How does your intimate relationship feel to you? If your answer is anywhere in the ballpark of unfulfilling, frustrating, painful, or disconnected, then there's a good chance you and and your relationship could use a… https://t.co/tIKgCxI6Mx