Lila Galustian

Lila Galustian LGA is an outpatient program specializes in working with personality disorders utilizing CBT/DBT.

02/14/2026

By changing one word in our minds, we change a whole transaction in our lives.

Superiority isn’t strength.It’s a trauma response.When people feel powerless, unseen, or unsafe, the nervous system look...
02/02/2026

Superiority isn’t strength.
It’s a trauma response.
When people feel powerless, unseen, or unsafe, the nervous system looks for control. One way it does that is through moral superiority, intellectual dominance, or dehumanizing others.
Feeling “above” someone can temporarily quiet fear.
But it also blocks empathy, accountability, and repair.
If we want real change, we have to stop rewarding superiority and start addressing the trauma underneath it.
Unhealed trauma doesn’t just hurt people.
It organizes entire systems.

Our communication styles don’t come out of nowhere.They’re shaped by trauma, safety, and survival.Silence, deflection, a...
02/02/2026

Our communication styles don’t come out of nowhere.
They’re shaped by trauma, safety, and survival.
Silence, deflection, aggression, over-explaining, emotional shutdown—these are often trauma responses, not personality flaws.
If we want real dialogue, we need trauma-informed communication.
Understanding changes everything.

See no evil. 🙈 
Hear no evil. 🙉 
Speak no evil.🙊 These aren’t moral failures.
They’re trauma responses.When people have ...
02/02/2026

See no evil. 🙈 
Hear no evil. 🙉 
Speak no evil.🙊
These aren’t moral failures.
They’re trauma responses.
When people have lived through sexual, physical, or emotional trauma, the nervous system learns that speaking up, looking too closely, or fully listening can feel unsafe. Avoidance, emotional numbing, dissociation, and denial are protective responses—ways the brain tries to survive what once felt overwhelming. Also, if you’ve been told your trauma “isn’t true”, you learn to stay quiet, and invalidate other people’s traumas as well.
But when trauma goes untreated, these responses don’t just disappear. They repeat. They pass down. They become cultural silence.
Healing doesn’t start with blame.
It starts with understanding, safety, and trauma-informed care.
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Emotions are what communicate to our brain, ourselves and to others. Behaviorally communication works in childhood. In a...
12/11/2025

Emotions are what communicate to our brain, ourselves and to others. Behaviorally communication works in childhood. In adulthood it’s called “passive communication”. Try to practice using your words when you notice yourself communicating with body language or behaviors. You will see a significant change in how satisfying your relationships with others and yourself becomes.

“Think Good, Be Good, Do Good” A philosophy that cultivates kindness, positivity, and understanding in your thoughts. A ...
11/11/2025

“Think Good, Be Good, Do Good” A philosophy that cultivates kindness, positivity, and understanding in your thoughts. A Philosophy that lets those thoughts shape your character and intentions. A philosophy that will turn those intentions into meaningful actions that help and uplift others. What are your thoughts on this philosophy? Comment below 👇

We focus on the concept of time, productivity within a time frame, and expectations of achievements within a time frame....
09/25/2025

We focus on the concept of time, productivity within a time frame, and expectations of achievements within a time frame. When you are able to let go of the concept of time and begin engaging in actions in the moment that benefit your state of mind, you will let go of so much built frustrations of self or life.

Self awareness if difficult when you have to experience the difficult emotions of realizations. That’s why so many avoid...
09/23/2025

Self awareness if difficult when you have to experience the difficult emotions of realizations. That’s why so many avoid working on themselves and challenging their flawed self. It takes courage to be self aware and grow.

When we keep turning away from what “feels uncomfortable” then we create avoidance behaviors and begin using excuses to ...
09/19/2025

When we keep turning away from what “feels uncomfortable” then we create avoidance behaviors and begin using excuses to avoid the discomfort. That rarely ends well for anyone in the long run. It more often will create an insecure person who cannot find the strength within to believe in themselves and they give into a cycle of poor decisions that lead to very big and uncomfortable consequences. If you are a person that keeps avoiding discomfort, ask for help, go to therapy.

We try with words, with books, with movies, with fighting, with insulting, with forcing, with manipulating, with kindnes...
09/16/2025

We try with words, with books, with movies, with fighting, with insulting, with forcing, with manipulating, with kindness, with God, with religion, and with so many other tactics to help others not make their own lives worst with their poor choices that lead to visibly negative outcomes. The more you try to worst it gets. Sometimes you have to let go and let them ruin their own lives and let them face their worst consequences. You can’t fix something another person isn’t willing to see as a problem. You have to learn to let them go and let them face their own life choices alone. The longer you stay around them the more consequences you’ll face from their actions.

Anger and hate exist in cultures that “need” guns for protection. Uncontrolled anger and hate are emotions that will not...
09/11/2025

Anger and hate exist in cultures that “need” guns for protection. Uncontrolled anger and hate are emotions that will not resolve or protect but will cause bigger problems. Many rural Americans who believe they are “superior” to others have been raised in anger and hate. The problem is not our “right to bear arms, PRIMARILY FOR LAWFUL PURPOSES” it’s the perception of “self defense” that stems from a humans development of hate and anger that is the bigger problem.

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