Suffering as a trigger #childhoodtrauma #mentalhealth

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[00:00:00]This is for anyone who tends to get stuck around doing hard things or new things or difficult things. If you grew up in childhood trauma, you might have a recoil to discomfort in associating general discomfort with like suffering.

[00:00:14]So what I mean by that, if you have to have a hard conversation with somebody or you need to go find a new job, try a new thing or get a degree in something and really you're about to go through a discomfort kind of thing to kind of get yourself to where you want to be. our inner child might kind of go, I just can't. I just can't right now. And sometimes we literally just kind of can't right now. But there might be a trigger around, I can't put myself in a position to be seen as foolish or be rejected or not do things correctly.

[00:00:46]That's the suffering that I'm kind of referencing. So, we might have a recoil to this perpetual place of later for that instead of going after what we want. And this might come from growing up with a narcissistic parent where everything was a hassle or you would get attacked for trying new things or you're terrified of being seen a certain way.

[00:01:07]All of that stuff wraps up into this discomfort, hypervigilance around discomfort and doing hard things. It's not I'm not sort of saying you're incapable of anything cuz that's not true. But sometimes our inner child just has such a strong like, oh, I just can't right now. Might that be an old thing for you? that might be sabotaging the present right now for going after what you want. I'm going to be doing a full length video in the in the coming weeks on how issues like this prevent childhood trauma survivors from reaching the success that they want to reach. If you're interested in that, leave a comment, like and subscribe for more.

[00:01:43]And what I'm really getting at, it's not good for us to be so hypervigilant around discomfort because it's like a repetitive message to ourselves that we can't handle things when we actually