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

"Drug abuse and self-harm are often symptoms of much bigger issues. And it almost always stems from a childhood filled with trauma.” — Russell Brand #Trauma

“Why bother (telling your story)? Because right now there is someone out there with a wound in the exact shape of your words.” — Sean Thomas Dougherty #Trauma

Childhood Wounds and the Legacy of Shame | Richard Nicastro, Ph.D. https://buff.ly/HyUcBxr "One of the most damaging outcomes of childhood trauma and neglect is the emotional injury of feeling unworthy. #Trauma #Shame

“Your survival response is not a moral failing. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.” — Viktor Frankl #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

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/49fyc 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/49gra 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

As an adult with C-PTSD, we may have parts that stopped loving ourselves. If you feel invalidated, dismissed, minimized by others, and have low self-worth, Trauma Coach @jenniferkindera.bsky.social may be able to help. Don't you deserve to heal? buff.ly/3R2ewHY #Trauma #Healing

"I can’t pinpoint exactly when I laughed again..I just know that 1 day a little burble of laughter bubbled up. It was #unexpected & I felt like I wanted to turn around and say who did that? Who made that sound? & it was me.": buff.ly/2rD2HXs by @Jenniferkindera.bsky.social #healing #grief #loss

💚 Motherhood Is Another Country, One That I Will Never Know by @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social vist.ly/4bw94 “Do you have children?” is a question I’ve grown used to hearing whenever I meet someone for the first time. And yet after all these years, I still hesitate over my answer. #MondayBlogs

💚 Finding Refuge in Marriage: Turning a Painful Past into Lifetime Love | @MargaretWhitford.bsky.social https://buff.ly/iGS23F4 Refuge can refer to shelter or protection from danger or distress, but it can also refer to a feeling of being seen and cherished, of belonging. #MondayBlogs

"There is a ghost who walks my garden each night, summer or winter, rain or snow, and this ghost causes quite a furor in the village." The Ghost Walk | @DrAlexandriaSZ.bsky.social https://buff.ly/46kv6Jv #Poem #Memoir #Divorce #MondayBlogs

The Alexandria Papers Newsletter #155 | @DrAlexandriaSZ.bsky.social vist.ly/4ckup #Migraine #MentalHealth #Poem #Memoir