by Arien Smith | Aug 4, 2020 | Healthy Relationships, How To & Healing Solutions, Overcome Fears & Thrive
This blog is a compassionate and uplifting one, filled with hope for us survivors of abuse. It’s all about how we can find truly loving relationships after abuse, even when it feels like no one will be able to handle us and our ‘baggage.’ If you’re looking for the...
by Arien Smith | Jul 28, 2020 | How To & Healing Solutions, Overcome Obstacles and Challenges, Powerful Coping Strategies
Self sabotaging is something most of us survivors of abuse have done at some point in our healing journeys. Like when we finally get close to someone, then push them away even though it’s a good relationship. Or we miss therapy appointments, even though we know...
by Arien Smith | Jul 21, 2020 | Prosperity Path
Abuse is impactful. Every one of us survivors knows this is true. Abuse leaves us with pains, struggles, illnesses, and a very long journey of recovery. It can leave us feeling stuck in life—since this healing path wasn’t one we chose or consented to. This knowledge,...
by Arien Smith | Jun 9, 2020 | Heal with Mindfulness, Prosperity Path
Does past abuse ruin our chances of living a good life (let alone finding joy)? My vision of a “best life” was essentially being okay with waking up each day. No longer wanting to give up. Surviving. I didn’t think any more than that was possible. That sounded like...
by Arien Smith | Jun 2, 2020 | Overcome Obstacles and Challenges, Powerful Coping Strategies
Feeling trapped by a bad habit? Struggling to break it no matter how many apps, techniques, and strategies you use? Breaking bad habits can definitely be an uphill battle. You’re forcing your brain to completely rewire an old pattern—and our brains honestly don’t want...
by Arien Smith | May 26, 2020 | Healthy Relationships, Peace Through Acceptance
Being betrayed by a friend is one of the most painful experiences we can have. Whether that’s them turning abusive, revealing a secret they promised to keep, or hurting us in some other way—it destroys the relationship we had with them. And that’s painful....
by Arien Smith | Apr 28, 2020 | Peace Through Acceptance, Powerful Coping Strategies
This might sound weird, but regret is a surprisingly helpful feeling. It helps us control emotions trauma brings up, preventing us from ending up in a crisis. But…it definitely doesn’t feel pleasant, right? So how could it possibly be helpful? How can regret, an...
by Arien Smith | Apr 7, 2020 | How To & Healing Solutions, Overcome Fears & Thrive, Overcome Obstacles and Challenges
Feel like the problems you face are never-ending? Like you’re struggling to solve them before new ones come up. Us survivors of abuse often face a greater challenge with life’s ups and downs, since we didn’t learn effective problem solving skills as children (we...
by Arien Smith | Mar 31, 2020 | Overcome Fears & Thrive, Prosperity Path
If you’re a survivor of abuse who’s been working for years (or even decades) to heal and you feel discouraged because you haven’t made much progress, this blog is for you. We all know it’s a journey to heal from abuse, especially if you were hurt in childhood....
by Arien Smith | Mar 10, 2020 | Heal with Mindfulness, How To & Healing Solutions, Overcome Obstacles and Challenges
It’s super common for us survivors of abuse to have a scarcity mindset. That’s when we constantly feel like we’re struggling to have what we need to survive, usually not enough money. Abuse impacts us in many ways, and sometimes that means leaving us in poverty....
