Tamika

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Tamika is Currently Reading

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Are You Mad at Me?

by Meg Josephson (Goodreads Author)

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Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

by Pete Walker

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Believing Me: Healing from Narcissistic Abuse and Complex Trauma

by Ingrid Clayton

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Tamika’s Notes & Highlights

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

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The real motivation was purely selfish. I was on a quest to help myself. I believe the same is true for most people who go into mental health. We are drawn to this profession because we are damaged—we study psychology to heal ourselves. ...more

Hyperbole and a Half

by Allie Brosh

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Tamika’s Quotes

“Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin.”
― Danielle Bernock, Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals

tags: captive, childhood-trauma, emotional-abuse, freedom, healing, healing-the-emotional-self, invalidate, lies, love, love-heals, marginalized, pain, ptsd, screams, screams-of-agony, silent-pain, trauma, validation

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“He has made peace with the idea that part of life is facing your failures, and sometimes those failures are people you once loved.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

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