[WePow]

Ok fellow survivors... I just read something that is WONDERFUL!

http://www.kalimunro.com/article_survivor_memories.html

This explains HOW we can trust what we FEEL happened to us.
A big part of my healing journey has been working through the intense denial of what occured in my past. Many times in therapy I experienced an alter bring forward a fresh memory in the form of a flashback. It would temporarily de-rail me because the emotions and body memories would be so intense - but I could not logically remember the detail at all. So I questioned my own memories and such. My T would always remind me to feel my body and pay attention to what it was telling me. There was no way I could "fake" a false body memory at a subconscious level. The body memories were very much real.

It took a lot of work for me to be able to trust those body memories over my own "solid" memory. Now that I read this article, it makes so much more sense to me! I hope that maybe some of you who are going through your trauma healing will take the time to read this.

[geez]

Weepow thank you so much for posting this! - great article.

(((((WePow)))))---this should be posted at the top of the whole forum!!!

I just answered pulled2ways-----and then I read this--it is wonderful.

I haven't been coming here much lately. Sometimes just get too triggered...then sad.
I've been laughing on another forum with others alot, instead.

Thank you soo much for posting this you are wonderful!!!theo

[Elysium]

(((((WePow)))))

This specific topic discussed in this article (trusting your feelings/memories) is exactly what my T session was about today.

I have finally discussed some about my body memories. It is horrific, and I can't talk about it here yet because this stuff is so fresh right now, but T basically told me the same things that are said in this article.

This has really helped to validate my memories and experiences and I wanted to say thank you for this. There are certain things my mind does not remember. For a lot of the physical abuse I have snapshots of it in my mind. I don't have the visual snapshots of the SA...at least not the SA by my father...but my body remembers it.

I didn't know if it was real because I could not see it in my mind, but I can feel it. T said that the body memories don't lie. She said that they are authentic memories that are there to say "Yes, something DID happen"

I'm scared. But seeing other T's backing up what T said helps me to know that they are real and I am not crazy!!

Thank you for helping with that.....

[WePow]

Thanks all for validating me posting this to the group here. I have placed the link in the top post. :-)

[purple_fins]

With deepest sincere thank you.

You are so kind to share and think of the possiblity of helping others,
such compassion--

This article makes so much sense for me at this time........

I truly thought I remembered everything from childhood-- always recalling such traumatic things....
then the anxiety kicked in even higher with HUGE health consequences.... the details I'd forgotten, filtering in as arbitrary things trigger those buried memories...... the pieces of the puzzle that have been missing for a long long time..... ugh.....

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