Most who have been abused at home or trafficked attempt to find a savior at school or on the streets. The new relationship holds the illusion of safety, belonging, and being understood. Usually we are not aware that the new relationship serves as a bandage over strong emotions of loneliness and low self-worth. The new relationship is a distraction from ourselves, aids in blocking out reality and hinders further healing.
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Usually appearing in my last dream before waking. These dreams used to be filled with overwhelming emotion, fear and the torturous influence of the shadow. So much so that I could not process the actual memory, only cope with the symptoms. A fight or flight PTSD response.
Since my recovery programs, counseling, and journey within with my God, resulting in spiritual freedom, these dreams are gentler. Still conveying a similiar message but now something more bite sized, less traumatic. I can look at, give to my God, my loving Creator and then set aside. Allowing my day to open up to joy and anticipation.
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Attacks from our spiritual enemy threatened Lady Jayne’s and my physical, emotional, and spiritual safety and nearly destroyed a family.
Continue reading “Distorted Reality due to the Tormenting inner-voice”
Why do our knee jerk reactions and harmful thoughts persist after we have found a Higher Power and are recovering from addiction or abuse? Repeated thoughts, whether of our own making or of the enemy, have created ruts in our brain synapse and nervous system, and belly-brain.
Continue reading “It is Helpful to Know”
When organizing homes where clients are hoarding or have messy chaos due to indecision, I first carve out a place for the client, that will serve as their haven, or a refuge from their inner trauma, or away from viewing the consequences of hoarding.
They might need a place to escape the chaos from a partner or child who is troubled with alcoholism, codependency, or other unhealthy tendencies.
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As survivors there is the task of rejoining the fragments of our psyche, healing our nervous system and emotions. The difficulty lies in our inability to trust our thinking, trusting God, and trusting those who are sincerely trying to help.
Continue reading “Let the Journey to Spiritual Freedom Begin”
A Time for Everything
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, … Eccl. 3
Continue reading “Does it seem as though God is too busy?”
Psalm 13:3-Look on me and answer, Lord my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death, (The Message Translation – Take a good look at me, God, my God; I want to look life in the eye)
The only way to know if someone is or is not looking at you, is if you are looking at them. Once you are looking to God and you know He is looking back on you, you can look take on life, looking it straight in the eye, and not looking away with intimidation.
Michelle Meredith contributed..
We do not like to retreat. If we are pushed, we push back. If we hit a wall, we bang our head for a while thinking that our stubbornness and unwillingness to retreat will remove the obstacle and open the desired door.
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Lady Jayne's Reckonings 