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If you don’t mind getting your hands dirty, gardening may be a great way to improve mental health and has been effectively used by veterans to reduce PTSD.
#horticulturetherapy #ptsd #mentalhealthThere are so many tangent truths that can have profound benefit when applied to healing from CSA. For example, aiming for an 85% productivity leaves room for mistakes and breaks. I.e., letting go of being Ms Perfect as a result of abuse, can actually make you *more perfect.* Yup! That's right. And when our brains are exhausted from trying to deal with life and PTSD and damaged personal boundaries and self-confidence, it's important to know that important decisions should probably be made in the morning when you aren't in decision fatigue. Remember the old addage to 'sleep on it'? That old wives wisdom was right on the mark.
The point... keep learning. Healing from CSA isn't all about CSA. It's about bolstering your other life skills to help repair broken confidence and self-worth as well, which eventually might give you more confidence to tackle grieving your loss and coming to peace with your past. You can do it!