Feats of Strength 💙 Trauma Recovery

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Recovering from trauma is hero's work. We can heal.

[Feats of Strength 💙 Trauma Recovery @Feats_Strength]

This article helped change my life. I started lifting weights to help combat extreme anxiety, but found it also helped build a sense of self-worth I never possessed from childhood. 🧵/1 #traumarecovery #featsofstrength

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It's never gonna be fair that trauma recovery requires fixing what other people broke.

But unfair isn't the same as impossible. We can acknowledge the injustice & we can heal.

Every small recovery step forward is a refusal to let others' actions continue programming our lives.

[Joe Hudson @FU_joehudson]

At the highest levels of performance, devotion beats discipline. Always.

Discipline is built off shame.
Devotion is built off love.

How to move from dirty to clean fuel:

[Feats of Strength 💙 Trauma Recovery @Feats_Strength]

It's never gonna be fair that trauma recovery requires fixing what other people broke.

But unfair isn't the same as impossible. We can acknowledge the injustice & we can heal.

Every small recovery step forward is a refusal to let others' actions continue programming our lives.

[Feats of Strength 💙 Trauma Recovery @Feats_Strength]

Many recoveries need to learn to harness the f*ck ’ems.

We can use anger to set boundaries and protect our recovery values. Its a fuel we can use to consistently turn to healing, so f*ck ’em, we ain't abandoning ourselves.

A spite recovery can still be a good recovery.

[Feats of Strength 💙 Trauma Recovery @Feats_Strength]

@SusanDavid_PhD Imagine evolution creating this intricate mind-body system, only for us to think that emotions are a nuisance that should be ignored.
Emotions are important messages, they are worth are attention and reflection.

[Feats of Strength 💙 Trauma Recovery @Feats_Strength]

@newstart_2024 Now imagine actually doing any of these, not just reading off a list. There's a chasm between borrowed insight and habits of mind that's getting missed here. Cognitive bypassing is a thing.

[Feats of Strength 💙 Trauma Recovery @Feats_Strength]

My piece was picked up by Know Thyself, Heal Thyself!

From Tony Robbins to Mel Robbins, the mindset grift is everywhere. Despite this, adopting a "new mindset" offers little strategic guidance for trauma recovery; too often, it’s used to bully survivors.
https://t.co/E2F0MWC13W

[Feats of Strength 💙 Trauma Recovery @Feats_Strength]

@pigeonxphoenix "I am me," sounds like a wonderful place to be. I read that as no longer being consistently controlled or influenced by our past, we have real agency.

[Feats of Strength 💙 Trauma Recovery @Feats_Strength]

My piece was picked up by Know Thyself, Heal Thyself!

From Tony Robbins to Mel Robbins, the mindset grift is everywhere. Despite this, adopting a "new mindset" offers little strategic guidance for trauma recovery; too often, it’s used to bully survivors.
https://t.co/E2F0MWC13W

[Joe Hudson @FU_joehudson]

Overthinking is almost always underfeeling. We think we're scared of what might happen. We're scared of what we might have to feel.

[Feats of Strength 💙 Trauma Recovery @Feats_Strength]

Excellent article, worth a read.
"One of the cruelest surprises of trauma recovery is that healing often makes you less functional before you feel better"
"Forgiveness is not a milestone, and it is not required. Healing comes through mourning."
Much more!
https://t.co/dTug3HE1HQ

[Feats of Strength 💙 Trauma Recovery @Feats_Strength]

Excellent article, worth a read.
"One of the cruelest surprises of trauma recovery is that healing often makes you less functional before you feel better"
"Forgiveness is not a milestone, and it is not required. Healing comes through mourning."
Much more!
https://t.co/dTug3HE1HQ

[Feats of Strength 💙 Trauma Recovery @Feats_Strength]

@brianmaierhofer Discipline is, in many ways, an emotion.

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@TraumaHealing23 Yeah, that's why to me "unconditional" points to deep & sincere conviction for, but not blind allegiance/devotion.

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@DrDoyleSays 💯 At its core, complex trauma is a self-dysmorphia.

[Feats of Strength 💙 Trauma Recovery @Feats_Strength]

@thought_harbor When you take action aligned with your values, discipline is easy - in fact, its not even discipline, it's a meaningful life well-lived.

[Feats of Strength 💙 Trauma Recovery @Feats_Strength]

@brianmaierhofer So much of life is about meaning-making. Communal ritual supported and gave life to our meaning-making work!

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@RyanMalphrus "the power of yet" - wasn't that part of Dweck's growth mindset?

[Feats of Strength 💙 Trauma Recovery @Feats_Strength]

@adam_almost @AdamLaneSmith I think the point went so far over your head, we're gonna need to name a new planet.
JK, just having some fun.🙏