Posts by Tammy René
Understanding PTSD Triggers: Finding Hope in Darkness
The trouble with PTSD is how, just when you think you’re on a good path and doing fine, something along the way triggers old emotions, and you find yourself suddenly in a pit with no way out. Panic ensues, and you feel powerless to do anything, stuck with pain and fear swirling around you. The…
Read MoreFinding Hope After Emotional Trauma
Emotional trauma has a way of twisting reality, making it hard to see our way to healing. The pain and fear gets a strangle-hold on our hope, blinding us to the very light that can sustain us through the hardship. Trauma has a way of sneaking up on most of us. For some it is…
Read MoreOvercoming Fear and Anger: Letting It Be Healed
Regardless of the fear, anger, or pain, will I “Let it, rather, be healed”? So the real question is not “Can I be healed?” But, “Will I accept the healing?”
Read MoreWhy Can’t I Cry? Exploring Emotional Barriers
The inability to accept or fully feel and express any intense emotion can lead to depression, burying us deeper in the trauma we’re trying to escape. The truth is, keeping emotion boxed up makes us weaker, more vulnerable, and more at the mercy of the past. Not feeling does not equal being strong.
Read MoreReclaiming Your Light: Rediscovering Your Passion
Reclaiming your light is often about rediscovering your passion for life. In this video, guest, Myra Marangi shares how her passion for dance saved her life.
Read MoreFinding Strength Through Belief in Jesus Christ
Choosing to believe even in our darkest moments—especially in our darkest moments—can keep us from drowning in the storms of despair.
Read MoreHope Beyond Diagnosis: Redefining Your Future
Do our challenges with mental illness determine our destination? The answer is often as complex as the diagnosis. But in short, the answer is no. Mental illness does not have to determine our destination. We have the ability to choose the direction our life will take. Life experiences can alter how we get to our destination, but we can choose where we end up.
Read MoreSurvivor Shift: Episode 8
Danielle Morelli shares how she learned to own the truth that each of us deserves life, dignity, and a chance at hope and love.
Read MoreFighting Depression
Depression is real and affects people of all walks of life. There is hope and help. In fighting depression, we cannot control how the enemy will fight, but we can choose to stand our ground.
Read MoreFocus Forward: You Deserve Life
How do we focus forward when we are struggling against burdens that would bury us in a pit of hopeless despair? How do we hold onto the belief that we truly deserve life?
So often, the trauma of abuse robs us of the dignity, hope, and love we both desire and deserve. Focusing forward as we work through our trauma can help us reclaim what was lost. The truth is that regardless of the burdens we carry, we are worth the effort to move forward.
Last year my friend, Danielle Morelli, shared this powerful truth: “You deserve life. You deserve dignity. You deserve a chance at hope and love.” Survivor Shift Episode 6
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