Tickling – a GASLIGHTING tool
Tickled until you can’t take it anymore. When my cousin wouldn’t stop, I went into a different head space. Stopped laughing and just lay there, limb, hoping she would lose…
Why CREATIVE WRITING is good for your mental health
Picking up creative writing as a hobby is what ultimately brought me on my healing journey. Over and over again I had to ask myself why my fictional characters do…
PSYCHOPATHS – don’t care if you’re in DISTRESS
Most social animals have mechanisms to control aggressive behavior. A dog for example will stop fighting when its opposite shows signs of defeat. Human do it too. When we are…
The law of parsimony – it SIMPLY makes SENSE
As a victim of abuse, I spend my life in a very strange state of confusion. It had always been there so confusion wasn’t strange, just life. But somehow disconnected.…
A PAT on the BACK – WON’T comfort me
Nurturing touches in early life are important for a healthy neuronal development. It protects against social isolation and mental health struggles in adult life. But not all of us get…
BRUSH off – feelings of OSTRACISM
Humans have a need for belonging and social attachment. Social support buffers feelings of depression as well as physical pain. Some people however, had parents that never cuddles them, and…
BREAK bad habits – calm your IMMUNE SYSTEM
Do you know that feeling when you are on a roll? Good things just seem to keep coming your way. And sadly - When it rains it pours. Sometimes for…
The TRAPEZIUS muscle – ALWAYS tense
Muscle tightness after mental or cognitive stress is something all of us have experienced. I was five years old when I was first treated for dislocated ribs. It was several…
Food & Clothes are NOT ENOUGH for healthy child development
„Now, don’t speak ill of you parents, you always had enough food and clothes to wear.“ I still get that enabling talk today. Back in the 1950s that was indeed…
DISGUSTING behavior makes me FAINT
Getting my vaccinations as a child was a nightmare for everyone involved. It was violent and terrifying since I suffer from Blood-Injection-Injury (BII) phobia. The practitionerTM and his staff grabbed…