You Know You Are Healing When...

[Ronin]

When you begin to analyze, instead of take bullshit at a face value & true.

& When you remember you have support network, caring people, & that the reasonable thing to do with gutting you things still /is/ ask, because how the winning is done for today? With either more intel or 'we're getting to it tomorrow'.

& When you hit 'post' as an act of courage instead of deleting it again.

 

[8888]

When you are a clergy abuse survivor and you're beginning to learn to separate religion and abuse and not have religion be as much of a trigger.

 

[Deadman]

When you can read posts on myPTSD and think to yourself, "Ah, I remember when I used to think like that."

 

[Heather]

When a ton of crap is dumped on you and you continue to keep going...persistence and an, "I can do" attitude gets you through.

 

[DharmaGirl]

When what used to be an effort to do self care has become a habit.
When you are triggered, you respond by thinking, what can I do to ground myself?

 

[Ronin]

When you go by what you used to take for granted - if in shit, gain time wherever you can, and give yourself one more day, any given day.

& When at least some once-automatic thoughts back start to make sense.

 

[Lionheart]

When you are finally in touch with your rage and anger at having been a victim of child abuse and you use it to spur you on your way along your healing journey.

When you get in touch with the spark in your soul and the twinkle in your eye.

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

When things that used to piss you off and painfully perplex you now just bring about an understanding chuckle that prompts a fading memory or two, rather than wrecking your emotional balance for the rest of the day.

 

[420kitty]

When the rage and daydreams of killing people have subsided.

 

[DharmaGirl]

When you feel well enough to run your own Happiness Challenge.

 

[The Albatross]

When you have longer string of neutral or good days and the days of negative shorten to "just another passing phase/cycle" instead of a crisis of epic proportions.

 

[ms spock]

When you can do three very challenging things in the one day.