These five powerful and practical tips can help store your life after emotional abuse.
The following practices can potentially stash your life on the journey to recovery:
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Meditation places survivors back in the drivers seat of their own psyche.
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It allows trauma survivors to rebuild a sense of safety in their bodies that trauma often robs them of.
It can help to curb disassociation by reconnecting us with our bodily sensations.
They may not feel whats happening in their bodies.
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They may not register what goes on with them.
Survivors of emotional abuse are likely to have been gaslighted to believe that the abuse they endured wasnt real.
Anchoring creates a habit of reconnecting with the reality the abuser sought to erode.
It validates the survivor and reduces cognitive dissonance about who the abuser truly is.
This removes temptation and information about them altogether from your healing journey.
Reducing this cognitive dissonance is fundamental to your commitment to recovery.
Self-soothing and inner child work.
Your unmet needs in childhood were likely compounded by this experience, so self-compassion is needed during this time.
Survivors struggle with toxic shame and self-blame when theyve been abused.
It can speak to a larger pattern of never feeling quite good enough.
Being gentle with yourself is essential after abuse.
Sometimes, the most powerful form of compassion is self-compassion.
This self-compassion will extend to maintaining No Contact as well.
A daily exercise regimen can secure your life after abuse.
If youre lacking motivation, start small.
For example, commit to thirty minutes of walking each day rather than an hour.
Exercise allows you to embody your increasing resilience and strength after leaving your abuser.
It battles the biochemical addiction your body developed to the chaos of the abuse.
There is a victorious and empowering life ahead of you after emotional abuse.
Youcansurvive and thrive but you must be committed to your self-care in the process.
