“For those of us who are dealing with feelings of shame and loss on Mother’s Day, remember that you are not alone.” Thoughts for Trauma Survivors on Mothers Day | via Psychology Today buff.ly/tZJUKmx

Narcissism & Codependency — Shame as the Missing Puzzle Piece | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social https://buff.ly/w4EBwvj As the family rules and mottos get passed from generation to generation, we are groomed to fulfill our role, and because shame rises up to protect us. #MondayBlogs #Trauma

Everyone Is Talking about Trauma, But What Is It, Truly? | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social vist.ly/4fsik Is trauma just an event, like a car accident or a hurricane? Or is it consistent and frequent events, like childhood abuse or emotional neglect? #MondayBlogs #Trauma #MentalHealth

Untangling Emotions: Toxic Positivity, Self-Care, & Shame | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social vist.ly/45zd5 Toxic positivity is a deeply embedded part of our culture, and it can infiltrate into our mindset and affect our emotional and relational self-care. #MondayBlogs #Trauma #SelfCare

Narcissism & Codependency — Shame as the Missing Puzzle Piece | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social https://buff.ly/w4EBwvj As the family rules and mottos get passed from generation to generation, we are groomed to fulfill our role, and because shame rises up to protect us. #MondayBlogs #Trauma

Untangling Emotions: Toxic Positivity, Self-Care, & Shame | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social https://buff.ly/ct7uizC Toxic positivity is a deeply embedded part of our culture, and it can infiltrate into our mindset and affect our emotional and relational self-care. #MondayBlogs #MentalHealth #Trauma

Malignant Self-Objectification | by @JenniferKindera.bsky.social https://buff.ly/3DeR6rx “Society only confirmed what I knew to be truth, from the lies abuse had taught me, that I would never be enough.” #MondayBlogs #MentalHealth #Trauma

Untangling Emotions: Toxic Positivity, Self-Care, & Shame | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social vist.ly/45zd5 Toxic positivity is a deeply embedded part of our culture, and it can infiltrate into our mindset and affect our emotional and relational self-care. #MondayBlogs #Trauma #MentalHealth

Everyone Is Talking about Trauma, But What Is It, Truly? | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social vist.ly/4fsik Is trauma just an event, like a car accident or a hurricane? Or is it consistent and frequent events, like childhood abuse or emotional neglect? #MondayBlogs #Trauma #MentalHealth

Listen to @JenniferKindera.bsky.social and host Rachel Thompson @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social on #SexAbuseChat X Spaces (formerly Twitter) TOPIC: Shame as the Great Protector Click here 👇 to listen: vist.ly/3n3k45y #MentalHealth #Trauma #MondayBlogs

The best dressed addiction | Annie Wright LMFT https://buff.ly/vEUCnFF "On workaholism, the nervous system, and the armor that looks like ambition. Or, alternatively, nobody stages an intervention for the woman who’s killing it at work." #MentalHealth

Everyone Is Talking about Trauma, But What Is It, Truly? | @JenniferKindera.bksy.social vist.ly/4fsik Is trauma just an event, like a car accident or a hurricane? Or is it consistent and frequent events, like childhood abuse or emotional neglect? #MondayBlogs #Trauma #MentalHealth

Untangling Emotions: Toxic Positivity, Self-Care, & Shame | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social vist.ly/45zd5 Toxic positivity is a deeply embedded part of our culture, and it can infiltrate into our mindset and affect our emotional and relational self-care. #MondayBlogs #Trauma

Listen to @JenniferKindera.bsky.social and host Rachel Thompson @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social on #SexAbuseChat X Spaces (formerly Twitter) TOPIC: Shame as the Great Protector Click here 👇 to listen: vist.ly/3n3k45y #MentalHealth #Trauma #MondayBlogs

7 Boundaries Narcissists Hate (And Why You Should Keep Every Single One) | Sandra Iliya via @Medium vist.ly/4nkjm #Narcissists

Everyone Is Talking about Trauma, But What Is It, Truly? | @JenniferKindera.bksy.social vist.ly/4fsik Is trauma just an event, like a car accident or a hurricane? Or is it consistent and frequent events, like childhood abuse or emotional neglect? #MondayBlogs

Untangling Emotions: Toxic Positivity, Self-Care, & Shame | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social vist.ly/45zd5 Toxic positivity is a deeply embedded part of our culture, and it can infiltrate into our mindset and affect our emotional and relational self-care. #MondayBlogs #Trauma

Listen to @JenniferKindera.bsky.social and host Rachel Thompson @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social on #SexAbuseChat X Spaces (formerly Twitter) TOPIC: Shame as the Great Protector Click here 👇 to listen: vist.ly/3n3k45y #MentalHealth #Trauma #MondayBlogs

“Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won't accept.” – Anna Taylor #MentalHealth

“Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won't accept.” – Anna Taylor #MentalHealth via @JenniferKindera.bsky.social

“It's not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It's necessary.” – Mandy Hale #MentalHealth #SelfCare

Scientists identify five ages of the human brain over a lifetime | University of Cambridge vist.ly/4ku49 #Trauma #MentalHealth

Everyone Is Talking about Trauma, But What Is It, Truly? | @JenniferKindera.bksy.social vist.ly/4fsik Is trauma just an event, like a car accident or a hurricane? Or is it consistent and frequent events, like childhood abuse or emotional neglect? #MondayBlogs

Untangling Emotions: Toxic Positivity, Self-Care, & Shame | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social vist.ly/45zd5 Toxic positivity is a deeply embedded part of our culture, and it can infiltrate into our mindset and affect our emotional and relational self-care. #MondayBlogs #Trauma

Listen to @JenniferKindera.bsky.social and host Rachel Thompson @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social on #SexAbuseChat X Spaces (formerly Twitter) TOPIC: Shame as the Great Protector Click here 👇 to listen: vist.ly/3n3k45y #MentalHealth #Trauma #MondayBlogs

“One of the greatest gifts you can give yourself is the gift of knowing your own worth.” – Oprah Winfrey #MentalHealth

Happy New Year

Guilt and Shame Shape Behavior Through Separate Brain Pathways | Neuroscience News vist.ly/4k78h #Trauma #MentalHealth

Everyone Is Talking about Trauma, But What Is It, Truly? | @JenniferKindera.bksy.social vist.ly/4fsik Is trauma just an event, like a car accident or a hurricane? Or is it consistent and frequent events, like childhood abuse or emotional neglect? #MondayBlogs

Untangling Emotions: Toxic Positivity, Self-Care, & Shame | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social vist.ly/45zd5 Toxic positivity is a deeply embedded part of our culture, and it can infiltrate into our mindset and affect our emotional and relational self-care. #MondayBlogs #Trauma

Listen to @JenniferKindera.bsky.social and host Rachel Thompson @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social on #SexAbuseChat X Spaces (formerly Twitter) TOPIC: Shame as the Great Protector Click here 👇 to listen: vist.ly/3n3k45y #MentalHealth #Trauma #MondayBlogs

Happy Holidays

Self-care is good for your mental health

Have a quiet Friday...

"The #healing started to glimmer through the fissures in my heart, in fits & starts. I began to #heal through other people who cared, who held space with me, really saw me & didn’t walk away when I couldn’t ‘just let go.'": buff.ly/9JzCDwQ by @Jenniferkindera.bsky.social #compassion #empathy #grief

It can be both. The undertow of consistent long term neglect and abuse, sprinkled with extremely traumatic moments of abuse.

Happy Thanksgiving! #Thanksgiving2025

Everyone Is Talking about Trauma, But What Is It, Truly? | @JenniferKindera.bksy.social vist.ly/4fsik Is trauma just an event, like a car accident or a hurricane? Or is it consistent and frequent events, like childhood abuse or emotional neglect? #MondayBlogs

Trauma and Shame: The Struggle Is Real | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social https://buff.ly/oc08tif When healthy shame turns toxic, its purpose is to keep us small and silent so as to try to mitigate risk for repeated chronic, consistent trauma and abuse. #MondayBlogs #Trauma #Shame

Sex Abuse Chat with Rachel Thompson (@RachelintheOC on X) and guest @JenniferKindera.bsky.social Covert Narcissism & Shame (podcast / X Space) vist.ly/47mgy #MondayBlogs #Narcissism

Listen to @JenniferKindera.bsky.social and host Rachel Thompson @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social on #SexAbuseChat X Spaces (formerly Twitter) TOPIC: Shame as the Great Protector Click here 👇 to listen: vist.ly/3n3k45y #MentalHealth #Trauma #MondayBlogs

Untangling Emotions: Toxic Positivity, Self-Care, & Shame | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social vist.ly/4estv Toxic positivity is a deeply embedded part of our culture, and it can infiltrate into our mindset and affect our emotional and relational self-care. #MondayBlogs #Trauma

Narcissism & Codependency — Shame, the Missing Puzzle Piece | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social vist.ly/4esbr As the family rules and mottos get passed from generation to generation, we are groomed to fulfill our role, and because shame rises up to protect us. #MondayBlogs #Narcissism

Narcissism & Codependency — Shame, the Missing Puzzle Piece | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social vist.ly/4dnyb As the family rules and mottos get passed from generation to generation, we are groomed to fulfill our role, and because shame rises up to protect us. #MondayBlogs #Narcissism

Untangling Emotions: Toxic Positivity, Self-Care, & Shame | @JenniferKindera.bsky.social vist.ly/45zd5 Toxic positivity is a deeply embedded part of our culture, and it can infiltrate into our mindset and affect our emotional and relational self-care. #MondayBlogs #Trauma

Listen to @JenniferKindera.bsky.social and host Rachel Thompson @BadRedheadMedia.bsky.social on #SexAbuseChat X Spaces (formerly Twitter) TOPIC: Shame as the Great Protector Click here 👇 to listen: vist.ly/3n3k45y #MentalHealth #Trauma #MondayBlogs

To live in the body of a survivor is to never be able to leave the scene of the crime. I cannot ignore the fact that I live here. – Blythe Baird #Trauma

Trauma in a person, decontextualized over time, looks like personality. Trauma in a family, decontextualized over time, looks like family traits. Trauma in a people, decontextualized over time, looks like culture. – Resmaa Menakem #trauma

Childhood trauma can lead to an adulthood spent in survival mode, afraid to plant roots, to plan for the future, to trust, and to let joy in. It’s a blessing to shift from surviving to thriving. It’s not simple, but there is more than survival. – Unknown #Trauma

If you continue to carry bricks from your past, you will end up building the same house. – Unknown #Trauma #MentalHealth