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u/WhiteTigerZimri · 5 pointsr/energy_work

I would highly recommend Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, as it's really helped me with getting in touch with my body and releasing emotion. The book 'Reclaiming Your Body' by Suzanne Scurlock-Durana is also very good, and comes with a password that gives you access to some great guided meditations that could really help you. It's very inexpensive on Kindle.

The Language of Emotions by Karla McLaren may be helpful too though the exercises listed in the book seem to be best suited to people who are very good at visualisation.

Another option that has really helped me is using EFT tapping to process emotions and traumatic events. Other therapies that could really help include somatic practice, somatic experiencing, and sensorimotor psychotherapy. I hope you find something that works for you!

Journalling about my emotions and listening to sad music can also help a lot in this area. All the best with it!

u/Sunflowerfield1 · 3 pointsr/Psychic

I'd recommend the following resources:

https://drjudithorloff.com/empath-support/

https://www.amazon.com/Language-Emotions-What-Feelings-Trying/dp/1591797691

EFT tapping is also a great way to deal with overwhelming emotions and release them.

u/d-dos · 2 pointsr/Psychonaut

Not related to tripping, but a resource for more information on C-PTSD: http://outofthefog.website/toolbox-1/2015/11/17/complex-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-c-ptsd

Understand that your symptoms came up to protect you. Through understanding you might even be able to thank them.
I'd heavly recommend reading up on emotions & trauma (contains some visualization exercises to work through each emotion & explains their role in the psyche): https://www.amazon.com/Language-Emotions-What-Feelings-Trying/dp/1591797691

I wish MDMA was legal with a therapist to work through repressed issues.
If you have any specific questions (i.e. ptsd symptoms, shrooms), I might be able help you a little. It's such a big topic I don't know where to start and where to go.


Remember shrooms are not a magic cure, not a "take once and be healed"-drug. Depending on your state (set & setting) they can be healing (like ~positive PTSD :D) or traumatize you further.
I don't advocate self-medicating and prefer to recommend 'sober' methods, but I believe they helped me little by little.


u/Spirited_Copy · 2 pointsr/BPDlovedones

Wow! That's amazing. You know, there is a healthy way to be angry. Anger lights up our boundaries. It's a defense. If we use it in defense, it serves its rightful purpose. It's when we use it to attack that it fucks us up.

I had forgotten this. Thank you for reminding me. It's from a good book loaned to me by a friend. The Language of Emotions, by Karla Mclaren. It's time to go back to that book again.

u/bitterloa · 1 pointr/BPDlovedones

i think this boils down to you becoming more comfortable in high conflict situations. while i do agree that most often it's best not to react in these situations, at some point it's less damaging for you to just speak your truth and not give a damn about the consequences for the person being abusive. i feel it's very common for many forward thinking individuals to romanticize with a zen-like "do-nothing" type philosophy when sometimes it's better and more natural to allow your anger to properly express itself. it also could be related to struggling with codependency issues, where you are more comfortable taking a verbal beating than standing up to it...perhaps.

if that dude came at me again, i'd tell him to kiss my ass. and if he told me i was this/that and a whole lot more i would tell him he hasn't even seen the worst of it and to quit crying about it because it's making me bored already. for real.

one thing i've learned about myself is that when something makes me angry to the point that i want to lash out, i'm usually justified in doing so. i don't have a short fuse and i treat people fairly so if i have to cut them down and put them in their place--they deserved it. i'm not perfect but i have a pretty even keel. and you know what i've found red_pockets? the few times where i've done this it's not uncommon for the person to be so shocked that they actually apologize to me after tell them off. i doubt this guy would, but it wouldn't matter.

i highly, highly recommend reading The Language of Emotions by Karla McLaren, you can browse through some of the book here:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1591797691/?tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=33857917435&hvpos=1t2&hvexid=&hvnetw=s&hvrand=1154839568181794320&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_7gu45c69fm_b

I think you would gain a lot from reading the chapter about Anger, how it is not a "bad" emotion, it's purpose and message it is trying to tell us. Take care!

p.s. also i did/do some visualization stuff sometimes that really helps me with anger (or perhaps more acutely in rare moments of rage) and if you are interested i can explain more.