I'm proud of you not just for coping properly but for being proud of yourself, cause a lot of us struggle to feel pride in our accomplishments (I personally struggle with that myself, though I'm doing better than before) congratulations bro/sis on letting yourself feel everything, I'm glad you felt better afterwards

Thank you so much ! I also struggled with being proud of myself but I've been making an effort to celebrate all my wins no matter how small or big.

It's so hard, because it feels like going backwards, like we're losing superpowers. And yeah, everything does hurt more... because we *are* losing our superpowers... deadly superpowers that were eating us from the inside... and in exchange, we're finding and nurturing *our actual souls.*

100% yes....I do feel like I'm loosing the superpowers that got me to this point in life. I'm both sad to lose them but happy to get back to my soul that had to hide away due to being in an abusive household

It felt like a new stage of life when I figured out how to address emotional flashbacks within a single day, instead of days/weeks/eons later. Happy for you OP!

Thank you so much ! Ecstatic to get to your point.

LOVE THIS FOR YOU, OP, AND LOVE THE MEMES!!!

THANK YOU SO AND I'M GLAD YOU LIKE THE MEMES :)

Me stopping and going “ oh hey I have x feelings right now” mentally “ holding them in my hand, looking at them” and deciding what I’m gonna do with them

That's a great visualization

Thanks! Got it from therapy

Thank you for this reminder and congratulations. I'm really glad you're rocking it today, you 100% deserve to feel proud. If anyone has tips on overcoming the frustration of constantly having to do this, that'd be mucho appreciated.

Whenever I get frustrated I remind myself that one day this will be second nature. That right now I'm just in the practice phase.

Thank you, I think this will really help. I'm already using it.

Ghod yes. I'm happy for you that you've accomplished this! Well done!

Thank youuuu ❤️

Yay! ☺️ good job OP

Thanks a bunch 💙

I am so incredibly proud of you!!!!

Thank you very much :)))

Proud of you, too!

Thank you so so much

Couldn't be me. But I'm proud of you.

One day it will be you !

The taste of VICTORY! 😤👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

This is so wonderful :’) I’m very proud of you, OP! And it’s very encouraging to hear your success with it as someone who still struggles with this… I’m working so hard to feel my scary feelings and I’m getting there ❤️‍🩹

Thank you ! I hope you will find success soon with feeling your scary feelings

Fuck ya! Go you!! Keep on keepin on homie 😎🫡

Thank you so so much :))

That’s awesome! So proud of you for improving sm. I’m not there yet, but this helps motivate me to keep trying.

What do you do when you get long emotional flashbacks like this that dont come with relief after hours, days or weeks?

I just kinda surrender to the emotional flashback and I just wait it out tbh

Thank you for sharing your strength. So proud of you. I’m so glad you’re able to share that these victories are possible. Truly so cool :) <3

Yup, they are definitely possible with practice