Celestial Cheetah Shamanic Healer & Therapist

01/16/2026

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01/16/2026

Anxiety is a normal human emotion. It is a stress response to protect us from dangers.
However, when it is a person's regular state of being, it is a learned behavior of the brain from ongoing trauma such as chronic criticism or chronic dismissal from needed caregivers at young ages.

Barlas Günay, Psychologist

01/14/2026

Yes! I used to call it "emotional memories" but Pete Walker and similar often call it "flashbacks." EVERY emotion besides calm is a flashback but not all flashbacks overwhelm us. Some pass through easily. The big ones will need to be intentionally and compassionately processed.

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There's a reason you can feel your age one moment and seven years old the next when something triggers you. Your nervous system doesn't operate on logic or a timeline; it operates on emotional memory. When a smell, a tone of voice, a dismissive comment or a familiar situation hits the right nerve, you are no longer standing in the present as an adult with resources, language and choices. You're back in the moment the wound was first carved, with all the helplessness, fear and smallness you felt then.

This is why your responses during a trigger can feel so disproportionate or confusing afterwards. You might freeze when you "should" have spoken up, or lash out when you "should" have stayed calm. You might collapse into people-pleasing, shut down completely or feel an overwhelming urge to run. None of that is weakness or regression; it's your body remembering what it learnt to do when you were young and genuinely powerless. That five-year-old, ten-year-old or fifteen-year-old version of you didn't have the tools to fight back, set boundaries or leave, so they adapted in the only ways they could.

Think of trauma like a photograph that never fully developed. It sits in your system, frozen in time, waiting for the right conditions to surface again. When something in the present even vaguely resembles that original moment; the feeling of being dismissed, controlled, shamed or abandoned, your brain pulls up the old file. Suddenly you are not reacting to what is happening now; you are reacting to what happened then. Your adult self knows the difference, yet your nervous system is still trying to protect the child who was harmed.

The hardest part is the shame that often follows a trigger. You might berate yourself for "overreacting", wonder why you can't just "get over it", or feel embarrassed by how small and desperate you felt in that moment. That shame only deepens the wound. What helps is recognising that when you were triggered, a younger part of you took the wheel because they believed they were keeping you safe. Speaking to that part with compassion, "I see you, I know you're scared, but we're not there anymore" is how you start to bring yourself back to the present.

When trauma gets triggered, you don't "act your age" because the wound doesn't live in your current reality; it lives in the past where it was created. Healing means gently teaching your nervous system that you are no longer that age, no longer in that situation and no longer without options. Over time, with safety and repetition, the gap between the trigger and your ability to come back to yourself gets shorter. You start to notice, "That was then. This is now. I'm safe." And slowly, the younger parts of you begin to trust that you can handle what they never could.

01/13/2026

All is divinely cultivated for you!



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Not everything that ended was a loss.

Some endings were necessary pauses, redirections, or releases that made room for clarity and strength.

What fell away may have been teaching you how to choose differently, value yourself more deeply, or step into a truer version of your life.

Healing allows you to honor what ended without defining yourself by it.

Sometimes, letting go is how you move forward intact.

01/13/2026

The importance of being their to hold our own pain is priceless. When we do that we stop abandoning ourselves and give an outlet to the hurt trapped inside.



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There is a point in healing where every old escape route starts calling your name. The urge to pour a drink, roll something, scroll for hours, binge, sleep it off or throw yourself into work can feel almost unbearable. Those patterns were never random; they were survival strategies that helped you get through what you didn’t yet have the capacity to face. They numbed the edges just enough for you to function in a life that kept cutting you open.

Sitting with your feelings instead of running from them is not passive. It is one of the most active, demanding things you can do. It looks like noticing the tightness in your chest and staying. Letting the wave of sadness move through without drowning it in food or noise. Naming the feeling; grief, rage, terror, loneliness, without immediately trying to fix it. It means telling yourself, “This is here, and I’m not going to abandon myself over it,” even when every cell in your body wants to bolt.

Think of your emotions like a scared child who has been ignored or shouted down for years. Every time you numb out, that child learns, “My feelings are too much. No one can handle me.” When you sit with the feeling instead, breathe with it, stay present, maybe place a hand on your heart, you are doing the opposite. You’re saying, “I hear you. I’m not leaving.” The feeling might spike at first, just like a child crying harder when someone finally listens, but over time that presence teaches your system that big feelings can rise and fall without destroying you.

This is why healing so often feels worse before it feels better. When you stop pushing everything down, the backlog comes up. Old grief surfaces. Anger you were never allowed to express begins to burn. Numbness gives way to sensation and it’s tempting to interpret that as proof you’re going backwards, when actually it’s proof that you’re thawing. Feeling isn’t failure; it’s your nervous system finally trusting you enough to let the truth reach the surface.

Healing happens by feeling, not by bypassing. You do not have to sit with it perfectly, or for hours at a time. Sometimes “sitting with it” is three conscious breaths before you reach for your usual coping mechanism. Sometimes it’s journalling for five minutes or crying in the shower instead of swallowing it down. Every moment you choose to stay with yourself, even a little, is a quiet act of revolution. You’re teaching your body that you are safe to come home to and that is where real healing begins.

01/13/2026

"Treat others how you want to be treated" doesn't work. Some will never reciprocate. Mirror energy instead.

01/10/2026

This is so so so common! I just want to add that it's also very OK to be mad about this kind of lost, distant connection. It's normal to feel upset coming to terms with the real disconnect from childhood. Being mad doesn't "you haven't gotten over it." It means you ARE processing the pain.

If you take away nothing from this video, know that it is absolutely up to the parents during formative years to foster and build closeness with their children. If it's not there in childhood it'll likely never be there in adulthood.
As I often say. "If you're not interested in your child's block tower at 3 years old, they won't care to tell you about their new house at 30."



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01/10/2026

If you've lost relationships this past year, it's likely bc they can't go with you to the next realm. There's a new world being created but we have to do the deep shadow work seeking love & acceptance for humanity to go there.

Not everyone will do this work. It's ok to leave behind ppl that don't get it.

01/09/2026

When the rage is released from trauma in therapy or similar healing, it won't be acted out in real life: actively or passively.

01/05/2026

Great summary of reasons why adult children go no-contact with parents... if this is you, know that your reasons and feelings are valid. These are never easy or quick decisions.

These things can drive parent and adult child apart. Families are complex, and sometimes the relationships between adult children and their parents become so strained that they snap. The decision to sever ties with one’s parents is never taken lightly, but certain behaviors can push even the most ...