Category: Emotional Alchemy
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How to Break the Trauma Cycle and Detach from the Pain of the Past
Emotions are energy in motion, and wherever attention goes, energy flows. This is true at the conscious level, but what about at the subconscious level; especially, in situations where the trauma of our past keeps sabotaging the present moment? In this post, we’re going to lay out the transformative process that will allow us to…
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QOTD #25: Emotions Don’t Die, They’re Buried
For today’s Quote of the Day, we will contemplate a quote from Austrian neurologist and psycho-analyst, Sigmund Freud about the nature of dormant emotions. “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” ~ Sigmund Freud In a previous post, I talked about how emotions cannot be…
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Emotional Alchemy: Trauma Cannot Be Created or Destroyed, Only Transformed
In my previous post on emotional alchemy, I shared 3 techniques to convert toxic emotions, pain, and trauma into therapeutic offerings that benefit others. I also shared how, at the heart of emotional alchemy is this concept of energy transference. Where we take an emotion, painful memory, or traumatic event and we repurpose it. With…
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QOTD #19: The Wisdom of Trauma
“Trauma is not what happens to you. Trauma is what happens inside you, as a result of what happens to you.” — Dr. Gabor Maté Emotions are energy in motion. Trauma is emotion stored in our nervous system at the heart-brain level. It’s important in our healing process to remember that attempting to suppress our…
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Emotional Alchemy: 3 Simple Techniques to Convert Toxic Emotions, Pain, and Trauma into Creative Offerings
In 2 previous posts (HERE and HERE), I shared quotes that testify to what has been true for me, personally. Our mess can be our message, and the pain we can’t get rid of can become our creative offerings to others. In this post, I want to talk about 3 techniques that have helped me…
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QOTD #5: What to Do With The Pain That Lingers
For today’s quote of the day, we draw inspiration from Susan Cain. The best selling author of the book, “Bitter-sweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make us Whole.” I recommend this book to anyone who has a hard time (like me) with some residual pain that lingers; showing up in the way we live and interact…
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QOTD #1: When Things Get Messy… Try This!
When I sit down at the blank page, some times it’s intimidating. Then, there are other times, it’s nothing short of triage because I need a safe place to bleed, and these blank pages become my “paper” towels and wound dressings. On those days, and there have been MANY of them, my mess truly is…
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Inversion Thinking (Part 1): When Positive Thinking Isn’t Enough… Do This Instead!
Here in America, it’s easy to get caught up in the malaise of pop-culture psychology that inundates us with catchy cliche’s and “postitive vibe” mysticism in place of the deep therapy many of us need. In our culture, it’s common to over-simplify complex issues. Especially, the ones related to our mental health, and it makes…
Daniel Fortune 