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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 713371" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Colleen. Hi. There is so much in your post that resonates. Let me pick out a few things.</p><p></p><p>First. I think we do become traumatized. </p><p></p><p>Second. I think our kids become traumatized by their lifestyle.</p><p></p><p>Third, I think our relationships with our children become mutually traumatizing and this traumatizes us. We hate the role we have been thrust into with our children. Interrogators. Mistrusting. Fearful. Vigilant.</p><p></p><p>That said, I think stepping back from work that itself is overstimulating and demanding, seems sensible and prudent. But I think for me, it was only a first step.</p><p></p><p>I am thinking about myself now as a traumatized person who needs help. I am thinking about equine therapy, bodywork, somatic therapy. To find a way to calm and center myself. Because I am seeing that my whole life has been an accretion of trauma which I have never addressed. I am beginning to think of my child in the same way. And I am beginning to look at our relationship as like two people caught up in an echo chamber of screams.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 713371, member: 18958"] Colleen. Hi. There is so much in your post that resonates. Let me pick out a few things. First. I think we do become traumatized. Second. I think our kids become traumatized by their lifestyle. Third, I think our relationships with our children become mutually traumatizing and this traumatizes us. We hate the role we have been thrust into with our children. Interrogators. Mistrusting. Fearful. Vigilant. That said, I think stepping back from work that itself is overstimulating and demanding, seems sensible and prudent. But I think for me, it was only a first step. I am thinking about myself now as a traumatized person who needs help. I am thinking about equine therapy, bodywork, somatic therapy. To find a way to calm and center myself. Because I am seeing that my whole life has been an accretion of trauma which I have never addressed. I am beginning to think of my child in the same way. And I am beginning to look at our relationship as like two people caught up in an echo chamber of screams. [/QUOTE]
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