Tag: selfishness

• Vulnerability & Shame

  

  What makes you feel vulnerable? What triggers feelings of shame for you? The harder it is to open ourselves to the possibility of being vulnerable, the more likely we have experienced some form of trauma in our lives. The earlier on in our lives that we were exposed to something traumatic, the more ingrained those neural pathways are, meaning the more likely the roads that leads to us experiencing feelings like shame are well travelled.

  Jax Bayne

  24 Apr 2020

  Activism, autism, communication, Psychology, Random Thoughts

  afraid, anger, anxiety, apathy, apology, ashamed, authenticity, bravery, break the cycle, change, comfort zone, community, compassion, connectedness, connection, control, courage, cruelty, depression, disconnectedness, disconnection, discrimination, egocentricity, emotional vulnerability, empathy, exclusion, fear, frustration, gratitude, grief, guidance, guilt, happiness, hate, healing, hurt, insecurity, joy, judgment, kindness, life, mental health, mental illness, misery, neural networks, neurology, neuropsychology, neuroscience, numbness, pain, perfection, perfectionism, personal responsibility, prejudice, pride, psychological disorders, Psychology, psychotherapy, purpose, self-worth, selfishness, sensorimotor therapy, shame, social responsibility, suffering, support, therapists, trauma, trauma work, vulnerability, vulnerable

• This Too Shall Pass

  

  “It’s funny, isn’t it? The things that matter? The truth is none of it matters. And the truth is all of it matters tremendously. It’s a wonder any of us ever get out of bed at all. And yet, we get out of bed.”

  Jax Bayne

  17 Apr 2020

  Activism, autism, Psychology, Random Thoughts, Rants

  ambition, anger, anxiety, apathy, arrogance, autism, autistic, behavioural health, bojack, bojack horseman, change, comfort zone, conditioning, cptsd, depression, despair, despondency, discipline, dread, emotions, encouragement, executive dysfunction, fear, feelings, getting out of bed, grief, happiness, hope, hoplessness, mental health, mental illness, mindfulness, misery, neural networks, optimism, pain, patience, perseverence, psychological disorders, Psychology, ptsd, rumination, sadness, selfishness, strength, stress, suicidal ideation, thought patterns, tolerance, trauma, weakness, willpower

• Stop Picking Your Scabs

  

  “It occurred to me that ‘choose’ and ‘pick’ are synonyms. You can choose to learn from your mistakes and turn your pain into something kind, or you can pick your scabs and pick a fight.”

  Jax Bayne

  26 Mar 2020

  Activism, Psychology, Random Thoughts, Rants

  abuse, accountability, actions, agency, anger, apology, behavior, break the cycle, choices, compassion, complex ptsd, consequences, cptsd, cruelty, culpability, danger, doctor who, doctorwho, empathy, fighting, grief, growth, harm, hate, healing, hurt, intentions, kindness, learning, love, mental health, pain, personal accountability, ptsd, rage, reactions, scabs, selfishness, strength, suffering, support, thoughts, trauma, victim, victim complex, victimhood, violence, words, wounds