I Can’t Tell If I Am Hungry

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I Can’t Tell If I Am Hungry

Am I starving or full? What am I actually craving to eat? When should I stop? And why does it feel like love and food are intertwined?

Recovering from trauma is a long and complex. My current, and longest, battle is around re-establishing the mind-body connection. I want to be know what I am feeling and what those feelings actually mean.

To do this I will be counting-calories. Not to lose weight, but to teach myself what the feelings that arise actually mean - without the added fear, anxiety and ignorance. Please help me to stay on track with this!

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Do You Love Me, Or Just The Idea Of Me?

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Do You Love Me, Or Just The Idea Of Me?

In this episode I discuss the impact of over-analysing emotions of others and how excessively reading into tone/facial expressions/word choice can lead to the exact opposite outcomes from what was intended.

I also discuss my positive experiences with the initial stages of EMDR…

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136: Why it Hurts So Much To Heal

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136: Why it Hurts So Much To Heal

The only way to truly heal is to embrace your past. To acknowledge it, work through it, and accept to it. Ignoring it won’t help, and hoping it will go away is just wishful thinking.

This is a hard process, and one that must be repeated often. But the result are worth it.

In this episode I share how writing therapy has helped me to relieve some of the inner pressure. I cover some of the problems and pitfalls of using writing therapy to address trauma. I also share two pieces of writing therapy, the poem ‘Flash Back’, as well as a short essay ‘What is a dream?’.

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132: Reframing The Coronavirus As Collective Trauma

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132: Reframing The Coronavirus As Collective Trauma

Looking at Coronavirus through the lens of collective trauma will help us to manage the crisis - both internally and communally.

We are all going through something new, unique and scary. We don’t have complete information, and we are seeing people lose their freedoms, livelihoods and lives.

This is traumatic, and is causing us to act and respond in a compromised way.

In this episode I discuss the importance of mentally re-framing as a way to maintain our mental states and relationships.

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29: 'Who Let The Bum In' - (Chapter 1 of Under The Influence)

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29: 'Who Let The Bum In' - (Chapter 1 of Under The Influence)

Zachary reads a chapter of his first book: Under the Influence - Reclaiming my Childhood.

Chapter title: "Who Let The Bum In"

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8: Why You Shouldn't Let Your Trauma Define You

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8: Why You Shouldn't Let Your Trauma Define You

"There is a risk of falling into the trap of defining ourselves based on our trauma. We might relive it over and over again -in our minds, contemplating what happened, wishing it was different.

Or perhaps we are the complete opposite - running and hiding from it, doing everything we can to not accept the event as part of our past. Perhaps we do both..."

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