Awakening Healing Therapy

12/12/2025

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12/07/2025

Emotional avoidance is when you disconnect from your feelings instead of dealing with them because they feel too overwhelming, too painful, or too uncomfortable to face.

It can look like:

• Staying busy all the time so you don’t have to think
• Scrolling, eating, drinking, or working to numb
• Avoiding hard conversations
• Downplaying your own pain (“I’m fine, it’s not that deep”)
• Distracting yourself anytime emotions come up
• Feeling guilty for having feelings at all
• Choosing people who don’t require emotional vulnerability
• Checking out of your body- zoning out, dissociating, mentally tapping out
• Feeling something rise up but immediately pushing it down

At its core, emotional avoidance is a survival response.
It’s your mind saying, “We can’t handle this right now,” especially if you grew up in chaos, trauma, or around people who punished you for having emotions.

Avoidance doesn’t mean you’re weak.
It means you’ve been strong for too long and your body learned to protect you by shutting down.

Healing starts when you gently let yourself feel again- even if it’s messy, slow, uncomfortable, or feels like a brand new language.

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12/07/2025

Do you wake up groggy, drag through the day, or feel your mood sink once the days get shorter?
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) affects millions every year, draining energy, motivation, and joy from everyday life.

While traditional treatments can be expensive or slow, light therapy lamps offer a proven, non-invasive way to bring back focus, positivity, and balance—without prescriptions or side effects.

Winter got you feeling low? Light up your day—literally! ☀️
Discover the best SAD light therapy lamps that lift your energy and mood.

12/07/2025

To combat seasonal affective disorder (SAD), use a combination of treatments like light therapy, talk therapy, and medication, along with lifestyle adjustments such as getting more sunlight, exercising regularly, and maintaining social connections. It is crucial to consult a healthcare provider to determine the best approach for you and rule out other potential conditions.

12/07/2025

The "seasonal affective month" is December, which is recognized as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) Awareness Month, highlighting the winter-pattern depression linked to shorter days, though some experience summer SAD. This awareness month encourages understanding symptoms like low energy, mood changes, and sleep shifts, and promotes strategies like light exposure, activity, social connection, and professional help to manage this recurring depressive pattern.

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07/31/2025

Have you heard of post traumatic growth (PTG)!?
It’s true! Trauma reshapes how you think - rewires your brain. BUT you can experience rewiring in a healthy way - PTG!!!

🎤 Book me to speak at your company: https://drmarks.co/speakingTrauma reshapes your brain—but your brain can also reshape itself back toward healing and res...

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Loneliness is a part of healing, but it’s not the final destination.