The Becoming Project

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How do you stop your narcissistic injuries from blowing up out of you and hurting other people?

Did your parents mess you up?

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Hasslers, great term.

Difficult people in your life might make you age faster, study suggests New research suggests that difficult people, a.k.a. “hasslers,” contribute to chronic stress and elevate epigenetic biomarkers associated with aging.

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💗🩵 Have you experienced countering? This tactic leaves you exhausted and drained on a daily basis so that you’re less able to fight back against ongoing abuse and manipulation, and unable to trust yourself. When you are conditioned by frequent countering in an abusive relationship, you feel unable to express yourself. You are silenced, made to feel like you have to walk on eggshells just to have a right to exist, react, and respond genuinely to the world around you without the narcissist nitpicking and hypercriticizing your perspectives.

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University study finds moving house increases risk of depression Moving house before the age of 15 increases the likelihood of developing depression, says a study.

I want to take a gentle moment and talk about emotions.

Emotions help us read the world around us and when life gets difficult they don’t disappear just because we’re good at coping. They don’t vanish because we’re logical, spiritual, productive, or “fine.” Emotions are a part of us.

In Root-Cause Therapy, I see this again and again:
👉 Felt emotions that are allowed, moved, and completed become wisdom.
👉 Emotions that were never safe to feel don’t go away — they turn into patterns.

Patterns in relationships.
Patterns in self-sabotage.
Patterns in anxiety, shutdown, people-pleasing, control, or numbness.

The body remembers what the mind learned to survive.

When an emotion couldn’t be expressed at the time — because it wasn’t safe, welcomed, or understood — it gets stored as sensation, belief, and behavior.

Not to punish you.
But to protect you.

Healing isn’t about “letting it all out” or reliving the past.
It’s about meeting what’s still unfinished in the body, with safety and support, so it can finally complete.

When that happens, something shifts:
• the charge dissolves
• the pattern loosens
• the wisdom remains

This is what embodied healing looks like.
Not fixing yourself — but finishing what was interrupted.
And that’s where freedom actually begins.
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Thank you to The Queen Code for this pic. 📷

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Healing is a Paradox! Healing doesn’t feel like healing.It feels like chaos, grief and falling apart 💔It feels backwards, heavy, confusing and raw 🌪️Healing cracks you open befo...