Category: Understanding Trauma
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“Going Numb” happens when life becomes too scary, too overwhelming for kids who do not have nurturing and safe-enough caregivers to help them through painful things. It is a survival mechanism that prevents them from fully feeling terror and fear.
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Many people who survived childhood abuse habitually & unconsciously check out (dissociate) and feel numb. This poem is about Zoey beginning to believe Jesus could love her when she’s checked out and using addictive behaviors in her efforts to not be overwhelmed by pain.
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Hidden—In childhood, Zoey learned to hide her emotions and herself from people, especially her dad. Now, when she hides, she loses energy and feels the two masks come on. Hiding—She hates it when she feels the masks come on, like a thief in the night…
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A poem about understanding emotional flashbacks, which results in us feeling as helpless & hopeless as we felt as kids, even though we are now adults.