Healing Journeys: Taking Baby Steps Towards Brighter Days

Healing Journeys!

• Prolonged stress can reinforce initial trauma, making it more resilient.

• Emotional trauma gets recorded in the subconscious, affecting future behaviors.

• This can lead to unexplained anxiety or an unconscious avoidance of situations resembling past negative experiences.

• Some people may begin to avoid surprises due to past negative experiences tied to unexpected events.

• As an emotional person (directed towards me), you might be intuitively conserving energy by avoiding both negative and positive emotions.

• Positive emotions, however, can serve as a source of strength and energy, rather than just draining it.

I haven't copied this from any article, nor have I extracted it from anyone's speech... These and many other points have been shared by @bambuka through comments as a result of our ongoing discussions. If you wish, you'll find many of my posts where we've had extensive discussions about trauma, stress, and many similar topics.

When I reached out to him about this activity I'm planning to create a safe space and mentioned how he has so much to offer, he said...

I could take part in the work of such a segment ("psychological support and rehabilitation rooms")

If you or someone you trust organizes such a space, I am ready to share my experience. But my experience concerns issues of psychological rehabilitation rather than psychological counseling.
It's easier for me to rid a person of a phobia than to give him the right advice on how to live on.

So, I'm going with this idea. Think of it as a pilot project. I want to create a space where you can share something—anything that is weighing you down, your views on this, an experience, or anything you think could help you, your friend, or anyone else. I can't promise a psychological evaluation or even a solution, but we can talk about it. You can reach out anonymously through my Discord, and I will share this with our readers through my blog.

The purpose of this activity is reflected in the title of this post: Healing Journeys. Healing is a process and I want this space to be a part of this process.

This is just a small step in which I want to play my role. I don’t want you to engage with my post just for the sake of engagement. However, if you have something helpful to offer—whether it’s your input, your feelings, or anything that might help even a single person make sense of something—you are welcome to share. If not, you can simply be a silent reader or share this with someone who might need it.

Baby steps:

The first topic open for discussion, or rather for exploration, is:

Why don't you like surprises anymore? What are you afraid of?

I thought it was my age, the responsibilities of my children, and maybe my nature, but @bambuka says:

Maybe you are afraid of unpleasant surprises and for this reason you shut yourself off from any surprises?

He further comments:

It happens that some cases that have become your personal life experience have a negative connotation. Perhaps such cases have led to emotional trauma. This is recorded at the subconscious level and affects your life in subsequent events. A person tries to avoid cases that somehow resemble that negative from life experience. This happens on an unconscious level. A person simply has a "gratuitous" anxiety and a desire to avoid this experience.

And let me tell you, he knows what he is talking about!

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So let's talk

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Edit: To join the conversation on why you might be afraid of surprises and unexpected events, feel free to reply to this parent post and tag @bambuka, or respond to his comment under this post. If you'd like to create a separate post on the topic, please use the #healing-journeys tag as your first tag, publish it in Dream steem, and don't forget to tag @soulfuldreamer and @bambuka. This will the first post/project in this space.

_{beneficiary: bambuka}