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Yea a lot of these practices have helped me to connect with stuff that I found positive, useful and run with it. In that sense it's helped to anchor me a bitI would become so absorbed in it and it helped push out negative stuff
I think this can happen even in relationship with ourselves. Welcome home eh:)I feel I lost a lot of myself in the relationship
Thanks for adding dimensionsI am thinking about the ways the esoteric shapes my life more than that discussed so far :).
takes a way a little of the sensory benefit. A cross section of both seems better to me.Nutrition - food being medicine - seems like a scientific ‘encompassing’ of kitchen Witchery that -
I can connect with some level of this statementI also have found will for a lot of this is part of the ‘divorce from self’ I have undergone in suffering PTSD.
I laughed (not at the state you described) and nodded so hard when I read this. At times I have felt like a portion of this stuff was absolute bullshit when I could hardly get out of bed. Yet there have been times when I could not manage to brush my teeth, feed myself properly but was able to do simple practices outside with a tree that really did helped me to come back into a relationship of care with myself. I sense it was something to do with co-regulation and internalising the good that I can experience engaging with naturePutting cedarwood on my broom , annoiting my mattress with rosemary or burning bayleaves in my study feels - Redundant when I can barely bring myself to brush my teeth daily.
Yes can beIt’s the same stuff with a reframe often. But if the reframe works for ME I’ll take it.
This made me flinch. There is something of this that I get, unfortunatelyhe doesn’t have blood on his hands, but he has glitter on his hands
I hope this is a season and that joy will return to you or be found in/through some other formThe quiet joy the ritual of making a simple hot drink well could bring me was something beautiful and precious. Right now I cannot get back to it
I think that's great :)helped me to connect with stuff that I found positive
Yes that's true. I was always a person who needed a lot of alone time. When I couldn't have that so much I found it hard.I think this can happen even in relationship with ourselves. Welcome home eh:)
I think that's great :)
I hardly ever draw these days. I used to love it too, was very therapeuti
Yea I feel that way about painting. There was an art therapy studio I'd go to every Friday 2-5.30pm and just paint. Many years back. It really helped my writing too. Can relate to feeling a block around some thingsc --
Ah, for me the other way I am relating a lot less to the Leo. Can see it in creative practices, and needing to put my own signature/spin on things. Which, to be honest is annoying! I actually quite like to be behind the scenes. I don't know if that is part of the CPTSD reaction of hiding/evaporating, Scorpio influence, or it just suits me to do things where I am not the centre of attention but the thing I've created isI feel like the Leo and Sagittarius parts are more *there* now
Yes I'm enjoying reading people different angles and views. It's nice to connect with more people on the forum too:)It's nice to be able to talk about it
Shamanic journeying is esoteric.....now that I think about it. I guess I'm an energy believer....and the foundations of journey work (core shamanism) has really helped me connect with myself internally and make how I feel about myself much more positive. Understanding the medical aspect of CPTSD, structural dissociation, reading research, was just one part of the healing process...But my personal journey using Shamanic journey practices has been so very helpful w parts work, help w internal communication, consensus building, that sort of thing. In shamanism, they believe in retrieving lost soul parts. I like this idea....because that is what I feel has been stolen from me....parts of my soul. Finding, accepting and healing these parts....has been super helpful with symptom control and I'm much happier now, after journeying for a couple of years.