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#Recovery #Striving #Surviving #thriving #Hope

So this is for you out there we don’t know what your going through. Today we wanted to say hey IT is what IT is isn’t IT and NO IT is not ok and that is ok. You are allowed to show your feelings you are allowed to express yourself and share your feelings. This is all hard for all of us and we are all extremely tired and exhausted from everything that happened and is happening.

The one message we would like to convey is you are not alone you matter you are important and yes you are worthy!

This is a message of Hope don’t opt-out don’t punch out don’t give up you are so much more then what you are going through.

You never know who your going to help or who will help you we are helping because people have helped us.

ACT DBT CBT EMDR Mindfulness +++++++

Sometimes IT takes so much just to find out what how why when where that you never new or was aware that people care.

You know what get up get out of that toxic fish tank and get into a fight or flight for you as you are the only one that can save you. Sorry tough love we had to say IT.

When you are surrounded by therapy and supports be IT a virtual therapist, peer group or even a volunteer commitment you change the equation of you.

So if you can change the equation you can escape the loop. If you escape the loop you can do so many different things that are good for you.

Look we know this is for someone out there…

Maybe your drinking maybe your smoking maybe your coping just to get to tomorrow using or even being abused. We send our hugs cause you can survive and you can get out. We won’t lie IT is very hard. Sometimes you need a 6 month break that’s an option. Yes you are putting life on hold and yes things may fall apart but is not everything already falling apart if your in this situation? Personally this road has been travelled. The point is don’t give up don’t surrender don’t give in cause you never know who is out there.

Someone needs to hear this message you perhaps or maybe a connection that is going through IT.

We would like to send hugs big hugs cause you can do IT! Yes you can! God Said so with help. So that means you don’t have to do IT alone.

We ask you to consider if you choose your present who can you help? If you choose to continue who will need you to be there for them in there time of need. A total stranger in a store a parking lot walking on a street or even in a support group. Someone somewhere needs you.

We hope this helps someone know you are appreciated you are valued and yes you are missed.

We send #Love #Support #Hugs }{ #ChronicDepression #suside #Anxiety #Addiction #ChrinicPain #Divergent #Diversity #ADHD #ASD #Autism #Fibromyalgia #BackPain #ChronicIllness #MentalHealth #illness

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During this journey of becoming diagnosed i have done a lot of research on common house hold items/things you can find in your backyard that can be anti-inflammatory properties. Obviously you want to speak to your doctor about taking these thing but i wanted to share what has helped me get off 50mg of prednisone daily.

I started to have all the long term use side effects of taking high dose steroids daily. Everything from weight gain to chronic infections. That's when i know i had to do my own research to get myself off these medications (with the help of my physician). That's when i came across tumeric, ginger and sunflower roots.

Tumeric's main active Component Per the mayo clinic Is Curcumin. Thus giving it its yellow color. But it also has anti-inflammatory properties making it a potential treatment for a number of health conditions i#ncluding reducing pain. One study compared tumeric extract three times daily to taking 1,200mg dose of ibuprofen daily.

According to NCBI resources Ginger has the potential for treating degenerative disorders, digestive health and Cardiovascular disorders. They found ginger to have anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative properties

Cleveland clinic has stated that dandelion roots are full of vitamins A, C, K folate, calcium and potassium. Dandelion roots can help reduce chronic inflammation, provide antioxidants, lower cholesterol. Unfortunately science doesn't focus a lot of attention on wild herbs and that needs to change!

With the help of these three things that can be found in your house/in your backyard I became myself again. There is so much potential for holistic health and western medicine combined. I encourage you to do some research and find out what works for you!

newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-q-and-a-tu...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3665023

health.clevelandclinic.org/dandelion-health-benefits

#chronic #thriving #passion

Ah what a crack-up this afternoon!
Laughter is the best medicine!
I definitely needed that pick-me-up this week!! I don't recall having that laugh-cry moment at all this year with someone else or within a group setting.
It happened today via video chat!😆😂🤪

I'm hopeful I will pass tomorrow's SIMS (simulation) assessment with my partner.
I'm super relieved we got a last minute practice in earlier today. 👌🏼

This is another one of those super appreciative posts
A shout out to my classmates: 🥰
Greatly appreciate the ongoing support and positive feedback they have given me and my partner in the past two weeks.

Note to self:💜
You don't realise how much support you have when you keep it to yourself,
be more accepting and open to others.
It goes a long way to just let go of your mistakes.
Don't be a stranger,
show up!

Let positive vibes manifest in your life!!!!

#Bekindtoyourself #MentalHealth #selfcarelounge #Selflove #thriving #positive #womenempoweringwomen

When I was around 4 years old my father left. One of his friends, who was already a dad had stepped in on helping raise me; little did we know who he really was. My mom ended up dating him on and off for a little while, but even when they weren’t together I was calling him Daddy. This “Daddy” thing lasted until I was 10 because if I didn’t call him that, if I just called him “Dad”, he would get very angry. As said previously we didn’t truly know who he was. This man was and is a pedophile. He had sexually abused me for 5 years. It had started at age 5. He gave his son up for adoption when he was just a baby because he didn’t trust himself around his newborn son! These people are everywhere, and so many people have been abused, but are afraid to tell their story. I am here to say that your story is important, and it could save lives. I was molested, raped among many other things and I didn’t even know what was happening, or that it was wrong; it was just how I grew up. Around 5 years ago, he had told someone who told my mom, and it was at that moment he was out of my life. Months later I had talked to the police several times in attempt to get him arrested. It took what felt like forever to get him arrested, and then more time to get him into a prison. I have now decided that I want to make my story public, make it readable for people, make is so that people who are going through it or had gone through it to know that you can get past it, you CAN move forward. I have been in a psychiatric hospital twice, I’ve been in therapy for as long as I can remember, I have multiple kinds of hallucinations and have a tendency to push people away that care and fall for the tricks and manipulation of those who do not. I have let this man control me for too long, and in making my story public, I feel as if he’s not in charge anymore; I am. I have taken my life back! #Surviving #thriving #PTSD #Depression #Anxiety #dealingwithit

"Im a failure" I used to think those words about myself daily.. I used to wear it like an identity.
Every new task I undertook those words would flare and shout from the back of my mind, undermining each action I took..

I had heard these words as a child and they still echoed through my very character and sense of self.
I'd always tell people "be positive and you can achieve anything!" Yet somehow I could never apply those words to myself.

As I grew, so did my understanding.
I realized that I am Not my trauma, that I am more than a sum of my parts!
That inner critic I had let rule my life, was a echo of abuse and Not my inner guild as I had always thought.

Finally I was Free, in the knowledge that my inner guild only Ever wants my highest good!
So every time the little echo whispered "you are a failure.." I could see it for what it was, an abusive comment that my young mind had taken on as a self belief.

I know now I wasn't failing.
I was surviving.
Until I was able to learn to Thrive!

#PTSD #BipolarDepression #CPTSD #FailureToThrive #thriving #copingskills #Selflove #growth #Hope #Lovingyourself #BDD

I love this and thought I’d share. My illnesses don’t define me, I do. #HIVAIDS #Surviving #thriving