Could you be suffering from one of the 5 Emotional Trauma Responses? For many years I struggled to confidently express my ideas, feelings, thoughts and opinions. I felt broken. Like I was doomed to live inside a prison of my own creation. Then I learned about the freeze emotional trauma response…and my entire world began to change. Now I could see why words froze in my throat.
I had a love-hate relationship with my emotions until I began to see and understand that truly they are the spice and music of life. At one point in my life, I chose to quit feeling any emotions. Numb seemed like a better option than feeling a tornado of emotions that I did not know what to do with. Today, I no longer fear emotions but welcome them as friends that truly bring full color to my world.
I remember standing in the empty front room of my house. I was looking out the window but I really was not seeing anything — home alone for the first time in years. Really alone. It was the first weekend my now ex-husband had taken the kids for visitation.
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