Monday, February 5, 2024

Self-Trust

 


"What happened to you was not your fault, and you deserve to heal. With support, it is possible to create new neural pathways so that your nervous system can process triggering moments without causing you unnecessary panic or anxiety. By reprogramming your nervous system and adopting new thought patterns, you can make the shift from Complex PTSD Attachment style to Secure Attachment style."

AP

Such compassionate truth here - traumatic attachment wounds from childhood dynamics or violations absolutely were not our fault. The responsibility lies with those who failed modeling emotional attunement during vulnerable developmental years.

Yet too often we implicitly absorb a sense of deficiency if our nervous system still floods with panic frequently in triggering moments despite conscious awareness. A kind of self-shaming around "Why can't I be securely attached consistently by now?"

The reminder that with empathic support and daily practice, new neural pathways can steadily build to respond to emotional flashbacks with care rather than flare ups shifts everything. Our physiology endured overwhelming things before the frontal lobes could make sense; we must patiently help it catch up now.

We repattern thought distortions still projecting old abandonment wounds onto the present with higher perception - "This reaction echoes the past but today I am safe." We consciously shift behaviors away from reflexive distancing towards vulnerability.

Gradually we anchor into the felt-sense of security - modifying intense fear responses by continually signaling safety to the sensitive nervous system. True integration means receiving emotions with compassion, not spiraling into survival instincts. Healing recodes attachment style to trust.

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