@HelenInspires

Action = Passion, Purpose, Dreams

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And I believed that my reason for not taking all that great knowledge and putting it into action was because I lacked motivation. So for the why, there's a truth. I was numbing internally. Literally could feel a freeze happening within me that doesn't allow me to carry out an action. Then I would fall into a state of sadness, depression, the numbing and the freezing have been a lifelong struggle. And I was unaware until I started getting the help that I needed

Let’s have a conversation! Sharing my struggles with taking action to pursue my dreams but why did I struggle? #mentalhealth #purpose #dreams #passion

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Andrea Potvin
@GoodEnough · 2:36
Um, this post speaks to my heart. It so close to what I'm experiencing, working through some stuff. I, too have complex PTSD, had dissociated my whole life. I still do. It does feel stuck. I kind of had some hard blows in the past couple of years. Not even related to COVID, just some huge losses and grieving many things. But that sparked me to see that I had major problems that never were dealt with
@HelenInspires

@GoodEnough thank you for being brave!

Obviously, it goes with those ups and downs often, but it isn't linear, doesn't happen in a straight line. And that's why I call it a journey. And the need to fix is something that I know, that I can understand is I needed to get on this path of fixing me. I've been determined to get better, for sure. But the need to fix and get to that end goal of being healed is part of the trauma
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@Swell · 0:15

Welcome to Swell!

@GoodEnough
Andrea Potvin
@GoodEnough · 1:39

@HelenInspires

I did do an inner child work meditation. When that was first told to me, I had absolutely no concept of inner child what? But I did this meditation. It brought me to tears. So that was very helpful. Another book I'm not sure if you read is The Myth of Normal by Dr. Gobor. Mate, that book is awesome. I think that was one of the first books that really helen me to see that my health tanked due to my stress and different things going on
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@GoodEnough

And yeah, I obviously had to do a lot of the inner child work and took care of different versions of myself and took them to their safe place, their happy place. And I still do that. That's the homework I continue doing. Thank you for also being interested in my book. There is a poem I wrote in there that I had to work on in therapy
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