Category: Short Film
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Trauma bonding
Trauma bonding is when you’re attached to a person who consistently betrays you in one way or another. Yet, you feel addicted to the abuser and panic at the mere thought of leaving. One part of you wants to leave, another, stay. This inner conflict usually stems from the abuser’s confusing behavior, shifting from cruel […]
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Progressive detachment
“Progressive detachment from all that is particular and concrete raises one to a vision which gains in size what it loses in substance. No melancholy state can exist without this ascent, this flight toward the heights, this elevation above the world. Neither pride nor scorn, despair nor any impulse toward infinite negativity, but long meditation […]
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The 3 D’s
Dysfunction includes disturbances in a person’s thinking, emotional regulation, or behavior that reflects significant dysfunction in psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning. In other words, dysfunction refers to a breakdown in cognition, emotion, and/or behavior. For instance, an individual experiencing the delusion that he is an omnipotent deity has a breakdown in cognition because […]
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My healing journey
Letting go, disengaging and shifting my focus to what made me feel alive. Working through (on paper) all of the trauma and abuse that led to my addictive traits. Owning what was mine, and letting the rest go. Resetting my compass on a day-to-day basis that kept me aligned and focused on what made me […]
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The Wisdom Of Trauma
Trauma is a natural part of being alive, and yet so many of us have shame around the things that have hurt and changed us. We assume that what we experienced shouldn’t warrant the dislocation we feel. Or we worry that our alteredness somehow makes us less loveable. But anyone who works intimately with trauma, […]
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Je ne sais quoi
You don’t have to be afraid of the dark, actually, I dare say you don’t have a fear of anything, a strong person is a person who doesn’t fear being alone. There are other people to worry about, those people who tell you what to do and feel, in the blink of an eye you […]
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Drugs, Booze & Woes
“With the awakening in society of the importance of mental health, combined with advances in neuroscience and psychiatry, much-needed attention to trauma and childhood trauma is slowly forming.”
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Testament
tes·ta·ment/ˈtestəmənt/ Every single day someone will test your faith, lure you into their dysfunction so that you will engage. This is where my relationship with God starts; because I know how to just walk away.
Drugs, Booze & Woes 