When people belittle others, it is often a defence strategy, designed to keep them “less than”, the individual doing the mocking, and this allows them to stop listening to that individual, to pretend to themselves that they are irrelevant.
Collective fear often shapes what a society is willing to see, name, and change, and that fear can quietly produce toxic “normal” ways of living.
Transcendence therapy is a form of psychotherapy that aims to help people overcome their psychological distress by accessing a higher state of consciousness.
This is the site megapage for learning difficulties and neurodiversity. It introduces the subject and provides links to pages delving deeper.
Traumatic flashbacks are moments when a past experience feels as if it is happening again right now, even though you are actually safe.
Shame is a painful feeling that there is something wrong with you as a person, not just with what you did.
Being human is messy, beautiful, painful, confusing, and deeply meaningful, and all at the same time. It means having a body that gets tired and breaks, a mind that thinks and worries, and a heart that feels joy, fear, love, shame, and everything in between