When the Bottom Drops Out: Staying Grounded Through the Trauma Healing Process 

Thank you Peggy. Hard to believe today. But much needed.🙏❤️

Great video. I found myself agreeing with what you said 😊. I've had a few times in my life when I wanted to walk away from my healing journey. Times when it felt deeply painful and exhausting. Times when I worried that things were getting worse and not better. Times when I feared that I'd never get through and heal all that I needed to heal. I'm so glad that I did not give up on me. I am grateful to the therapists who, while I was in that space, believed in my ability to heal. I did have to regroup and rest at times while returning and carrying on with my healing journey. I'm grateful for my determination and the resilience I built up on this journey that, together with support of another and others in some group work that had me not feel so alone that helped me to continue on. I do know that it gets so much better when you don't give up on you!❤ I returned to add this piece. I hadn't really thought of this before. I believe that working with a therapist/mentor who understands the difficult terrain of healing from childhood abuse, someone who had done their own healing is essential on those days when one wants to give up. I know that without that person's determination to support, to mentor, to encourage and to hold a safe space for me that I would probably have given up on me. Seeing another who held that belief for me and who was/is kind, caring and compassionate helped me not give up on me!❤

Hey Peggy. I was diagnosed OCPD recently on top of other previously diagnosed BPD and Bipolar 2 and for some reason, the OCPD diagnosis bothers me intensly and was somewhat offensive and annoying to receive and I dont know why i had such a strong reaction and feeling about it. I didnt battle with the other 2 that I received years ago. I have had to leave therapy because its financially just too much right now and I've kinda gone back to my old avoidant ways which is so much easier than feeling so it's ended up making me hesitant to go through our public system to see a therapist free of charge. I then feel guilty if i dont use this avenue because so many countries don't have the kind of free mental health help available to them like South Africa does. Anyway, this video touched deep in my soul and somewhat made me feel super raw.

Yes, I’m currently going through a period where it just feels like a mountain of doubt sitting on top of every action I take. It was the strongest last week when I had days where I was doubting the possibility of me ever being able to heal (Which doesn’t happen often for me). “ I don’t think it can happen for me”. I’m still moving through this, and even as I’m typing this, I’m struggling. But I’m glad I’ve been allowing myself to receive these feelings I’ve been hiding away. Being on the other side of last week’s doubt, I proved to myself that this too shall pass. Loving myself through it all. Even when I lose sight of the love- Thank you for this reminder. I didn’t realize, but I was beginning to numb myself from the feelings. I’m going to rest and take a step back in

Thank you for this video…. I have a feeling I may be experiencing a lot of what you talked about… just recently I’ve lost my insurance along with my therapist… trying to do this on my own has been a battle .. watching this video has helped me to understand what may be happening with me… in all honesty I think it may have saved my life … thank you Peggy.

I'm not sure if I understood you well when you said that our defence mechanisms may prevent memories from coming up to the surface. Do you mean that feeling these feelings and contemplating these thoughts, can help restore some of the memories that we cannot recall?