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Post by trc1962 on Feb 15, 2021 1:42:05 GMT
I am a person that is dealing with learning to love myself more to move on from anxious to more secure. I was married for 20 years in a very happy and secure marriage that ended due to a rare medical emergency 17 years ago. I spent a lot of time raising my two sons and focusing on them and kind of in a survival mode. I then underwent some trauma due to my professional life that was very hard. I moved to a nearby city and resumed my career in a new spot and have done well, but the trauma has really hurt my self esteem. I recently was in a deep friendship with a dismissive avoidant that wasn't a good thing. I am seeing a good therapist and she has me reading Brene Brown and The Body keeps the Score and wonder what anybody on here suggests to become more secure as far as reading? Any thing else anyone would recommend? Thanks.
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Post by tnr9 on Feb 15, 2021 3:25:30 GMT
I am a person that is dealing with learning to love myself more to move on from anxious to more secure. I was married for 20 years in a very happy and secure marriage that ended due to a rare medical emergency 17 years ago. I spent a lot of time raising my two sons and focusing on them and kind of in a survival mode. I then underwent some trauma due to my professional life that was very hard. I moved to a nearby city and resumed my career in a new spot and have done well, but the trauma has really hurt my self esteem. I recently was in a deep friendship with a dismissive avoidant that wasn't a good thing. I am seeing a good therapist and she has me reading Brene Brown and The Body keeps the Score and wonder what anybody on here suggests to become more secure as far as reading? Any thing else anyone would recommend? Thanks. Does your therapist practice Somatic Experiencing? I have found that my SE therapist has been able to unlock so much of my childhood trauma just by focusing on what is happening within my body. Berne brown has some great TED talks.
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Post by BecomingMe on Feb 15, 2021 9:09:06 GMT
To add to tnr9's suggestion about SE, do check out Peter Levine's books and talks. The way he understands and addresses trauma as a body experience was a game changer for me. There is also a podcast which I really like called "Therapists Uncensored". They talk about a number of things - interpersonal skills, mentalizing, attachment theory, how to go back to the sympathetic state when triggered. Really interesting and easy to understand talks. And of course, Thais Gibson's videos on emotional mastery(this is more from a cognitive perspective). Hope this helps!
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Post by anne12 on Feb 15, 2021 12:50:42 GMT
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Post by annes on Feb 15, 2021 14:25:35 GMT
I am going through something similar, I have posted about this recently. I have been going through a period of dramatically low self-esteem due to massive changes in my love and professional life, to the point that I don't recognize myself anymore (I used to be full of joy and energy...) and it feels like I have to rebuild myself from scratch. It's a huge job but you're not alone, and to be honest I'm realizing that I've been progressing even without fully being aware of it over time. I have tried to read "The Body Keeps the Score", it's brilliant and very interesting but honestly not very helpful in my everyday life. What is actually helping is the book "How to Be Single and Happy" by Jennifer Taitz. It's written by a psychotherapist and provides PRACTICAL TECHNIQUES using a mix of therapies (CBT among others) and meditation. This book is really helping me to learn how to love myself, which seemed such an abstract and obscure idea so far. While reading this book I've started practicing meditation on a daily basis (which I used to be pretty skeptical of) as well as the cognitive techniques she suggests to re-direct negative self-talk towards values instead of outcomes and to get out of the rumination trap. I've been feeling stuck for months and now I feel like I'm starting to regain some control on my life. Hope this helps.
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Post by trc1962 on Feb 15, 2021 16:23:29 GMT
Thanks for all the good suggestions and I will look at all of them! It is a weird thing to think about self love for sure! I never really was lonely (I didn't think) and yet I now feel it sometimes. I am looking at ways to self soothe when I am wanting to reach out to the last person in my life or feel just feel a rumbling inside. The book "the body keeps the score" has been hard to read and I haven't gotten much out of it. I am looking for tips to understand what is going on inside and how to address that myself to maybe calm the hunger for reaching out. Thanks for all the suggestions!
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Post by tnr9 on Feb 15, 2021 19:48:07 GMT
Thanks for all the good suggestions and I will look at all of them! It is a weird thing to think about self love for sure! I never really was lonely (I didn't think) and yet I now feel it sometimes. I am looking at ways to self soothe when I am wanting to reach out to the last person in my life or feel just feel a rumbling inside. The book "the body keeps the score" has been hard to read and I haven't gotten much out of it. I am looking for tips to understand what is going on inside and how to address that myself to maybe calm the hunger for reaching out. Thanks for all the suggestions! I found that SE therapy has really helped me to become aware of those cravings and develop more choices to address them.
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