Bree Cunningham

CrossFit Athlete & CrossFit MKT Coach🏋️‍♀️
Follower of Jesus Christ✝️
Mizzou Alum 2022💛

[Bree Cunningham @b_cunningham6]

Lame NYE for the third year in a row and honestly plan to continue the trend😂 Why stay up until midnight when you're going to see the next year in the morning anyway? #mythoughts

[Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @DrDoyleSays]

Recovery ISN'T about abandoning our comfort zone. It's about USING our comfort zone INTELLIGENTLY-- to rest, regroup, get grounded-- instead of as a place to hide or live.

Comfort zones & safe spaces AREN'T jokes or cliches'-- they serve a purpose & give us an edge.

[Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @DrDoyleSays]

Trauma gets us in our head-- second guessing ourselves, hiding who we are, hiding FROM who we are.

Recovery starts to get us back into our LIFE-- but after years of struggling w/ trauma, that life can feel pretty unfamiliar. Even scary.

Easy does it. You just take baby steps.

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

Healing. We can’t schedule it or hurry it up.

But when we start to see it as unfolding layers of unexpected strength & richly revealed insights, it doesn’t feel so inconvenient or unfair.

It starts to feel like the sweetest secret God ever whispered into the depth of our soul.

[Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @DrDoyleSays]

When we've experienced trauma, it might not just be our memory of the trauma that's scrambled-- our ability to retain & recall LOTS of stuff may take a hit.

Where there's complex trauma, there's almost always brain fog-- not to mention chronic mental & physical fatigue-- too.

[Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @DrDoyleSays]

There are lots of people reading this who FEEL super fragile-- but who have had the resilience (yeah, yeah, I know) to survive their past & continue to tough it out every day.

Our resilience (ugh, I know) DOESN'T mean we don't hurt-- or that our trauma "wasn't that bad."

[Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @DrDoyleSays]

It tends to be REAL important to complex trauma survivors to be reliable, dependable, to have integrity-- because their lives have often been shaped by people who haven't been authentic or truthful w/ them.

Once you know betrayal, you never wanna make anyone else feel it.

[Bree Cunningham @b_cunningham6]

🍁🍃🍂

[Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @DrDoyleSays]

Life after trauma is being fine one minute-- then a specific little noise, a subtle smell, some way the light happens to filter through a window in the late afternoon, can send you spiraling into a flashback.

It gets better. But it can be a scary, frustrating journey. You know.

[Bree Cunningham @b_cunningham6]

Me: let's maybe rethink that...😬
Athlete: I'm going for it!
Me: okayyyy...🤦‍♀️

[The CrossFit Games @CrossFitGames]

what's your plan for the week?

[Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @DrDoyleSays]

Complex trauma survivors will often bend over BACKWARDS to avoid conflict. We've had enough conflict to last a lifetime. It triggers all sorts of abandonment fears & threat cues in us.

Thing is-- it's really hard to set & enforce boundaries when you're really conflict averse.

[Nate Postlethwait @nate_postlethwt]

After experiencing trauma we feel apologetic for how we show up in the world because of a hijacked nervous system & internal shame. The irony is no one asked our permission before harming us, therefore we do not need permission to show up as we are & heal as we see fit.

[Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @DrDoyleSays]

You bring more skills, tools, & useful experience to recovery than you might think.

You survived so far. It may not have been pretty & it might be time to switch things up-- but you ARE skilled. Right here & now.

YOU have a strong base. YOU have the will to do this. Yes, you.

[Mizzou Football @MizzouFootball]

A 10-yard pass from Cook to Stephens gives the Tigers a 10-0 edge!

2Q - 12:43

#MIZ 🐯🏈

[TWLOHA @TWLOHA]

You made it through another week. Take a moment to give yourself some credit. It’s not easy.

[Bree Cunningham @b_cunningham6]

Rainy day mood🌧

[Bree Cunningham @b_cunningham6]

You can take the girl out of workouts but you can't take workouts out of the girl👀 When your body craves movement while on vacation, you end up going on a long walk at Baylor's campus👌

[Bree Cunningham @b_cunningham6]

blueberry scones+church=best sunday morning🫐🙌

[The CrossFit Games @CrossFitGames]

The Fittest to ever do it.
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[The CrossFit Games @CrossFitGames]

Let me show you @CrossFit