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Welcome to the forum. Sounds like things are particularly tough right now - hope you can be gentle with yourself as you get through these challenges. Mod note: All taken care of. If you have any issues with the forum come up, shoot us a message at Contact and we can take care of it👍

This is something that you could throw some CBT at. There’s cognitive distortions in here that don’t need to be dictating how you choose to act. And that’s definitely something that can improve, or even resolve, with targeted therapy:)

I’m so sorry for your loss @Chris-duck . Not much I can offer except sit with you here in this space. Hope you can find some ways to be gentle with yourself. Mod Note: The side conversation about @captain jigglypuff ‘s post ends now. If you want to work through that, take it to your Trauma...

There are genetic consequences for trauma, which mean that significant trauma can be seen to have genetic influences on future generations of children within a family. With due acknowledgement to that, language is important to me. “Curse” sends this into magical thinking territory, and puts it...

Mod note: Imn - I’ve removed your trigger warning. No need for them on a site where trauma is discussed in every other thread. You can read more about that in the Community Constitution.

There’s no ‘normal’, I don’t think. Instead, there’s what’s helpful, and what’s not, for you. Thinking, all by itself, doesn’t need to be a problem at all, unless it’s causing you distress, or causing you to behave in dysfunctional ways. If it’s causing you distress, then there’s different...

Welcome to the forum - glad you found us for your recovery journey☺️

Welcome to the community ☺️

Mod note: @redlabeldanger - I’ve removed your trigger warning. No need for them here. See the Community Constitution for more info👍

Welcome to the forum:) You’re in an especially difficult part of your healing right now. Self compassion, and creating habits that can be worked into the daily routine, together with looking for spontaneous opportunities to be kind to yourself, are potentially going to be both very difficult...

Trust and respect, to me, are key to successful relationships. Sometimes, that means not doing things that I might think are kind or good. If someone I am trying to foster a trusting and respectful relationship asks me not to do something - I do my best to respect that. Trust is earned when we...

Welcome to the forum - glad you found us! How do you find Tai Chi? It’s not something I’ve tried yet, but looks like it’s something I could do that might be a bit friendlier on some of my joints than yoga…?