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Do you value others approval over self approval?
Childhood abuse, C-PTSD, made me extremely vulnerable, craving approval from others.
That craving took all the time needed for healthy self approval.
Constant criticism and beatings created a void, a damaged “Ego”, needing kindness at all costs.
My “Ego” felt unworthy, not equal to others, I judged myself defective.
The battle to heal or wellbeing is an internal one I found out.
Internal healing, accepting, then surrendering to my fears paved the way to a different existence.
Please learn from my mistakes and journey out of hell.
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PTSD - A Way Out 
Posted by LovingSummer on January 22, 2020 at 2:26 pm
“…….Constant criticism and beatings created a void, a damaged “Ego”, needing kindness at all costs.
My “Ego” felt unworthy, not equal to others, I judged myself defective…….”
This made me feel a great physical wave of extreme pleasantness, I don’t really know the word for it! Needing kindness AT ALL COSTS is way more than your average kindness. Even just a little bit of kindness would have done, but AT ALL COSTS? That’s massive. Thanks for writing this.
Posted by Marty on January 22, 2020 at 2:27 pm
That you for sharing
We are in this journey together not in competition
The old Israeli proverb
If you save one he may grow to save the world
Posted by Marty on January 22, 2020 at 2:39 pm
This made me feel a great physical wave of extreme pleasantness
Funny how words can connect in our deep hidden caverns sometimes
Now we see we share similar issues in childhood
Do we have a different language, subconscious in a sort
Posted by LovingSummer on January 22, 2020 at 2:46 pm
Yes that is exactly it!
Posted by Tazzie on January 26, 2020 at 3:50 am
I have journeyed out of the hell of needing others approval. Now I sing to my own song,
It perhaps has something to do with being unconditionally loved for 11 years by a wonderful person, (died 10 years ago) empowered me to know I am not everybody’s taste, and nor do I have to be or need to be. I am me Still working through stuff but I know what is important to me, and where my values are. I wont lie, I wont gush and I am more and more comfortable with letting go, of people, possessions, constricts and agenda’s that I do not need in my life. I am not perfect and I am not healthy in CPTSD health in so many areas, Yet I am moving foreword no matter how small it is. I feel for me getting older is the empowering me, I really do not care what most people think of me. I am getting to be someone I like!
Posted by Marty on January 26, 2020 at 1:01 pm
Wow
I have this blog to connect with people like you, doing the daily work, facing our fears
That has happened is the journey
Healing and happiness are different spaces that most people have not experienced or lived
You are living your life doing your best
We can not do any better than that
Way to go
Giving myself gallons of kindness and appreciating all the gratitude for having the courage and ability to fight back
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