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It has Lions mane and abt 10 other mushrooms blended in there! I'm no scientist but I like to think the more the merrier in these blends.

This is the exact place I got it from: Mushroom Extract Powder -... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DCGDCKM?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Absolutely. Feeling that fear is a strong sign that your body is feeling safer these days. Safe enough to not tune it out. Resourcing is the next skill you should be working on. Basically finding ways to feel safe in your body. This is why somatic therapy tends to always start with grounding practices. Once you have a good grasp on that you would practice pendulation. This is switching between being present with that fear for small tolerable chunks of time, then back to whatever grounding practice works for you. Here’s a quick overlook on resourcing, pendulation, and titration. And here’s a super informative somatic therapy workbook. It’s a simple and straight to the point way to learn how to work through these things with great explanations of why and how each thing works.

>The initial conflict is that creative things are dangerous

YES. I have so much trouble with this question! What I have found helps is doing lessons out of a book. I know it seems silly, but if I can do a lesson out of something like Learn to Paint in Acrylics with 50 Small Paintings, I can think of the thing I am doing as "a lesson" and not "aa creative thing". But once the lesson is over, I can tell myself "well, here I have been messing around with paint and nothing bad happened, so I can keep playing with it and nothing bad will happen" -- and that seems to help calm me enough to slide into being creative.

The trick is, it needs to be a lesson in the material I want to use. So a watercolor lesson if I want to work mostly with watercolors, etc. But that helps a lot.

I read this passage last night and it resonated with me deeply. It's from Sarah Polley's book Run Toward the Danger (which has a lot of really poignant descriptions of childhood trauma):

"So much of coming to terms with hard things from the past seems to be about believing our own accounts, having our memories confirmed by those who were there and honored by those who weren't. Why is it so hard for us to believe our own stories or begin to process them without corroborating witnesses appearing from the shadows of the past, or people stepping forward with open arms when echoes of those stories present themselves again in the present?"

If you have any siblings, have you talked with them about what you experienced in childhood? I recently had a vulnerable conversation with my brother about our childhood, and it was very validating.

I think we've talked about this before but have you read Janina Fischer, healing the fragmented selves of trauma survivors?

My IFS therapist explained yesterday that dissociation is just a part of me that protects me. I'm really struggling to know what I feel in therapy so she suggested that I read this "No Bad Parts" book and do the exercises in it to get some experience working with parts. My local library has an app so it didn't cost anything.

https://www.amazon.com/No-Bad-Parts-Restoring-Wholeness/dp/1683646681

I'm also listening to this book and it's been really helpful to hear someone else's story.

https://www.amazon.com/What-My-Bones-Know-Healing/dp/0593238109

Maybe this could help you?

Suzette Boon, Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart: Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists

Suzette Boon, Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart: Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists

-Suzette Boon, Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart: Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists

-Non-Attachment vs. Lack of Self-Efficacy

It's a little silly but the app Finch is helping me. It's sorta like a tomagotchi for your phone. But it is very focused on self healing and promoting you to answer questions about how you are feeling, what is stressing you out, your goals for today, breathing exercises and suggestions to do self care.

Plua it's adorable. Everyone come be my friend please. ♥

I think depression is the one I don't get. There is probably a whole conversation to be had where depression and dissociation overlap. Maybe the way to simplify it is to think in terms of mood equaling emotions. If the mood is driven by underlying emotions, like sadness, then it is depression. o me now -- the survival response has kicked in and so the planning brain sort of takes a back seat.

Is there a book you can recommend? I've been thinking about getting this one, but it is so expensive. It is mentioned in Pete Walker's book as a helpful resource.

Have you read what Pete Walker says about dissociation? He talks about right brain vs. left brain. I loved that because I used to be a workaholic. I was quite disconnected from myself when I was in work mode. I can add some of his words here if you want me to.

Any thought on fawn? My therapist says it is an active response, not an inactive one. I think I'm seeing freeze/fawn used interchangeably in some places. Maybe the key point is that freeze has no action. Fawn has action but the person is not fighting or flighting. They've locked themselves down and are acting to provide what the abuser wants.

I think depression is the one I don't get. There is probably a whole conversation to be had where depression and dissociation overlap. Maybe the way to simply it is to think in terms of mood equaling emotions. If the mood is driven by underlying emotions, like sadness, then it is depression.

I could easily read your post 10 more times and probably will.

Look up Janina Fisher's books. She does IFS and a book I just finished talks a lot about how to lead people through to making contact with their parts and forming a relationship with them. She goes into detail about how to heal inner conflicts. Great stuff let me find thy a link.... https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Fragmented-Selves-Trauma-Survivors-ebook/dp/B06X9YWZMM

I've heard good things about Coping with Trauma Related Dissociation but haven't read it. Have you? If not, has anyone else reading this comment read the book? How was it?

I dont think there is much to help us. Most therapists probably see us as a lost cause. Definitely no books I know of that are dedicated to CPTSD Freeze types. Maybe books on dissociation would be helpful?

Pete Walker recommends this book for freeze types. I read it awhile back, but I dont remember anything from it. SO it must not have been very useful for me. Ive read so many books on physiology they all blend together at this point though, so that could be it also.

https://www.amazon.com/Coping-Trauma-Related-Dissociation-Interpersonal-Neurobiology/dp/039370646X