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Finding self help overwhelming

Have you ever felt just like real healing or real self love or real love in general, is always out of reach?
If you've watched videos on confidence, read many books on healing anxiety , minimizing PTSD symptoms, etc..but it's always all on YOU. Changing my entire blueprint is Extremely difficult. A blueprint of trauma, violence, fear. I'm trying to give myself compassion. That's super hard too, I lived on eggshells daily for many years.( Not To laugh, or even allowed to Talk sometimes.)
I read it's our responsibility to try to diminish the trauma, but when you have to figure out an entire SELF, and develop your own self love, it's overwhelming sometimes. I occasionally think, can love ever come from anywhere else, and what if ever feeling normal is out of my reach???
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Jenny1234 · 56-60, F
What if you start with small steps instead of getting overwhelmed with trying to rewrite the bigger picture?
Coralmist · 41-45, F
@Jenny1234 that's so ironic you said that, literally an hour ago I saw a meme on Facebook that said, Instead of trying to change your whole life, why not just keep adding good (things) to it every day? Just add good and good and it will get better.
So thank you friend, you had a similar idea🌺
Jenny1234 · 56-60, F
@Coralmist you should keep a journal and at the beginning of the journal make a list of everything you want to change. On the following pages set out your attempts to change one thing at a time. Maybe a set a goal of one per week or one every two weeks.

If you tell yourself every day that you are the person you want to be, for example, if you tell yourself every day that you are confident. Then you will start to believe that you’re confident. It’s all about changing your brain.
Coralmist · 41-45, F
@Jenny1234 That's a good idea for keeping track of small goals instead of mind always overwhelmed with feeling inept .. thanks 🍀