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Victim
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Survivor
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Thriver
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Doesn’t
deserve nice things or trying for the "good life."
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Struggling
for reasons & chance to heal
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Gratitude
for everything in life.
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Low self
esteem/shame/unworthy
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Sees self
as wounded & healing
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Sees self
as an overflowing miracle
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Hyper
vigilant
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Using
tools to learn to relax
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Gratitude
for new life
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Alone
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Seeking
help
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Oneness
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Feels
Selfish
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Deserves
to seek help
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Proud of
Healthy Self caring
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Damaged
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Naming
what happened
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Was
wounded & now healing
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Confusion
& numbness
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Learning
to grieve, grieving past aggrieved trauma
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Grieving
at current losses
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Overwhelmed
by past
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Naming
& grieving what happened
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Living in
the present
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Hopeless
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Hopeful
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Faith in
self & life
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Uses
outer world to hide from self
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Stays
with emotional pain
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Understands
that emotional pain will pass & brings new insights
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Hides
their story
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Not
afraid to tell their story to safe people.
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Beyond
telling their story, but always aware they have created their own healing with
HP
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Believes
everyone else is better, stronger, less damaged
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Comes out
of hiding to hear others & have compassion for them & eventually self
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Lives
with an open heart for self & others
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Often
wounded by unsafe others
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Learning
how to protect self by share, check, share
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Protects
self from unsafe others
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Places
own needs last
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Learning
healthy needs (See Healing the Child Within & Gift to Myself)
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Places
self first realizing that is the only way to function & eventually help
others
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Creates
one drama after another
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See
patterns
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Creates
peace
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Believes
suffering is the human condition
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Feeling
some relief, knows they need to continue in recovery
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Finds joy
in peace
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Serious
all the time
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Beginning
to laugh
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Seeing
the humour in life
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Uses
inappropriate humour, including teasing
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Feels
associated painful feelings instead
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Uses
healthy humour
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Uncomfortable,
numb or angry around toxic people
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Increasing
awareness of pain & dynamics
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Healthy
boundaries around toxic people, incl. relatives
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Lives in
the past
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Aware of
patterns
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Lives in
the Now
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Angry at
religion
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Understanding
the difference between religion & personal spirituality
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Enjoys
personal relationship with the God of their understanding
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Suspicious
of therapists-- projects
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Sees
therapist as guide during projections
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Sees
reality as their projection & owns it.
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Needs
people & chemicals to believe they are all right
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Glimpses
of self-acceptance & fun without others
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Feels
authentic & connected, Whole
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"Depression"
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Movement
of feelings
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Aliveness
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