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How Trauma Sticks—The Mechanism of PTSD An excerpt from my book Walking Your Blues Away: How to Heal the Mind and Create Emotional Well-Being

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Q: “We Need an After-School Routine to Ease the Transition to Homework.” “Kids with ADHD need an after-school routine with built-in decompression time. An alarm for 40 minutes allows enough time for watching screens, playing video games, and transitioning to homework.”

A quick temper comes from fear. Many people think a quick temper comes from confidence, but it’s actually insecurity and feelings of being out of control.

Of course, it never ok to intimate, scream at, or unleash your temper on another because you feel afraid. But it does help understand the behavior.

The more confident and secure a person is, the more they’re in their rational mind and able to seek solutions. The more afraid and in threat mode, the more in the lizard (or survival brain.)

Confidence is quiet, cooperative, and able to stay grounded

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Once you grow up, you realise you don't want to be crazy in love.
You want to be calm in love, stable in love, patient in love, understood in love, safe in love.
Your partner should give you piece of mind and reassurance, not constant little heart attacks and high anxiety. -

“How I Would Rewrite My Childhood Report Cards If I Could” “I wish my teachers knew about my ADHD and dyscalculia. I’m going to imagine what life would have been like if they did, and what they might have written in my report cards had they known the truth.”

We need to work with our nature, instead of against it. We need to stop feeling bad when we get to the end of the day and focus solely on everything that didn’t get done. Here's one idea.
👉https://www.additudemag.com/to-do-list-shame/

Celebrities ranging from Tom Holland and Jennifer Aniston to Keanu Reeves and Chris Rock attribute their creative successes, in part, to the resilience and perseverance they developed to overcome challenges in the classroom and in life.
👉 https://www.additudemag.com/slideshows/famous-people-with-dyslexia-learning-differences/

I write about all these in my book - available on my website.
Including how I learned to manage them and heal from decades of complex trauma.
~ Lilly Hope Lucario

Book available here 👇
https://www.healingfromcomplextraumaandptsd.com/

When you choose to hold yourself in warm regard even when faced with your own imperfections, you can extend the same courtesy to your loved ones.

Many of us make job stress worse with negative thoughts and behavior. If you can turn these self-defeating habits around, you’ll find employer-imposed stress easier to handle.

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Note to self…

3 Reasons Parents Let Adult Children Disrespect Them 1. Fear of losing the relationship.

Executive dysfunction may look like forgetting to hand in completed homework, losing track of time, or struggling to transition away from preferred tasks. additu.de/mcweb4h