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This illustration helps explain the underlying dynamics and process of how childhood pain (roots) leads to a faulty sense of self, which in turn can lead to some form of dependency to cope with that pain, leading to problems to adulthood (fruit).

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Danica Harris, Ph.D., SEP on Instagram: "Creating internal safety is key for healing, which is why befriending yourself, softening to your experience, and honoring your capacity are all a necessary part of healing and recovery work. We can’t hate ourselves whole, and following trauma, we need to be intentional about lovingly putting all of our fragmented parts back together. To those of you seeking safety with yourself, I see you." Seeking Safety, Be Intentional, Back Together, We Need, See You, Growing Up, Healing, Key, Canning

Danica Harris, Ph.D., SEP on Instagram: "Creating internal safety is key for healing, which is why befriending yourself, softening to your experience, and honoring your capacity are all a necessary part of healing and recovery work. We can’t hate ourselves whole, and following trauma, we need to be intentional about lovingly putting all of our fragmented parts back together. To those of you seeking safety with yourself, I see you."

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Lucinda Gordon Lennox MSc, MBACP (Accred) on Instagram: "Imagine if all of our behaviours are driven by a need to feel safe. For example when we are experiencing addiction to substances or people, over working, people pleasing, over scheduling, seeking relationships, obsession with making money. ⁠When we put an emphasis or importance on, or a "need" for, any of these external vices, a part of us is seeking the feeling of safety. ⁠ ⁠ So often with these behaviours, we are making up for the lack of emotional safety we experienced as children. ⁠ ⁠ When our needs are not met as a child, we will unconsciously seek to have those unmet needs fulfilled in our adult lives. And there are plenty of options for finding this sense of safety outside of ourselves as a grown up - hell, sometimes society e Emotionally Safe, Emotional Safety, Safe Quotes, Unmet Needs, Safety Quotes, Feeling Safe, People Pleasing, Imagine If, Working People

Lucinda Gordon Lennox MSc, MBACP (Accred) on Instagram: "Imagine if all of our behaviours are driven by a need to feel safe. For example when we are experiencing addiction to substances or people, over working, people pleasing, over scheduling, seeking relationships, obsession with making money. ⁠When we put an emphasis or importance on, or a "need" for, any of these external vices, a part of us is seeking the feeling of safety. ⁠ ⁠ So often with these behaviours, we are making up for the…

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Ally| Trauma Integration Coach on Instagram: "What's the greatest life skill for navigating Freeze? ​ For a system to protect through freeze, all other survival attempts to seek safety have failed. What are other attempts? ​ - seeking safety through connection/relation (ventral) - seeking safety through fight (defending, bracing) - seeking safety through flee (running/moving away) - seeking safety fawn (suppressing one's own needs, limits and truth) - seeking safety through shutdown (contracting, disconnecting) ​ This is what leads the system into freeze and makes it complex and confusing: many suppressed forces are activated and stirred up through the system at the same time. ​  ​ These suppressed survival forces have "opposing" needs and survival drives/momentum: ​ - to defend, brace, co Seeking Safety, Great Life, Psych, Life Skills, Fails, Running, Instagram

Ally| Trauma Integration Coach on Instagram: "What's the greatest life skill for navigating Freeze? ​ For a system to protect through freeze, all other survival attempts to seek safety have failed. What are other attempts? ​ - seeking safety through connection/relation (ventral) - seeking safety through fight (defending, bracing) - seeking safety through flee (running/moving away) - seeking safety fawn (suppressing one's own needs, limits and truth) - seeking safety through shutdown…

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