Category: trauma

• Panic

  

  I had a panic attack the other day. My mind wants me to believe that it came out of the blue but my heart knows that’s not true. At first it felt like my body was being constricted, in my mind conflicted. Following the pacing I hit the couch, curled up in a ball with…

  Sami Zabner

  November 7, 2022

  2020, expression, mental health, motherhood, trauma, woman

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• Unraveling

  

  The other day I came to the realization that over the last 10 years I have been conditioned to place other people’s needs and desires in front of my own, even if that meant self betrayal or abandonment.  Outside of putting myself last, I’ve also settled into survival mode where I used that conditioned behavior…

  Sami Zabner

  October 31, 2022

  2022, body acceptance, empowerment, expression, mental health, motherhood, trauma, woman

  2022, anxiety, birth, blogging, breathe, death, depression, duality, earth, emotional, emotions, life, mental health, motherhood, movement, nature, poetry, postpartum, pregnancy, rebirth, relatable, story, woman, woman poetry, womanhood

• Interconnected

  

  Trauma is not only stored in the mind, it’s also stored in the body.  In the mind we store developed coping mechanisms, learned behaviors, and habitual surfaced responses. Here in our minds, we lock in this idea of an alternate reality to feed into this fantasy that we are doing better than just okay. However…

  Sami Zabner

  October 28, 2022

  2022, anxiety, empowerment, mental health, motherhood, trauma, woman

  2022, anxiety, birth, blogging, body, depression, duality, emotional, emotions, life, mental health, mind, mind body, motherhood, movement, nature, poetry, postpartum, pregnancy, rebirth, relatable, story, trauma, woman, woman poetry, womanhood