Fairy Dusted Blog
I’m missing my therapist after having one odd experience and one meh experience with two different therapists. So, I sought the comfort of a book of my Dumbledore’s wisdom and I thought I would share a few lessons from the Head Witch herself.
*You’re working on keeping a...
Advanced Bitches Tenet #4 is “Advanced Bitches learn to wield their trauma responses like lightsabers.” This means that Advanced Personal Growth Work requires me to, on some level, understand and befriend my trauma responses. Then, instead of having them control me, I use...
Advanced Bitchifesto tenet number 3 is Advanced Bitches master the art of recognizing and declining the engagement of their Internalized Trauma Voice. I use the term Internalized Trauma Voice interchangeably with “inner saboteur” and Freud’s concept of the super ego. ...
Number two on the Advanced Bitchifesto is Advanced Bitches do whatever it takes to heal their childhood trauma. Now that we have set aside or are working on setting aside our substances, codependency and dysfunctional patterns (Advanced Bitchifesto No. 1), we find that it’s not so...
(Trigger Warning – ED)
Advanced Bitchifesto No. 1: Advanced Bitches go to any lengths to recover from addiction, codependency and dysfunctional patterns.
The reason the first thing we must do to become our true selves is we have to put down our substance. This is absolutely...
Last lesson I told you about how when a fawn saves the day, she calls the dementors meaning that when you rescue or enable someone, it comes with the price of you getting in trouble from the person you’re helping and/or it will end up being a complete disaster. The story was a friend...
I remember the therapy session in which I was flummoxed at how could me going above and beyond to help a close friend recover from surgery go so terribly, terribly wrong. I cleared my schedule (my joke was “I’ll check with my boss to see if I can take a week off” -...
