Liz Worley Healthcare & Education Innovations

09/12/2023

14/09/2023

The Hidden Connection Between Endometriosis and a Common Food Ingredient

14/06/2023

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29/03/2023

A core feature of unresolved complex trauma is having a distorted sense of ourselves while being riddled with toxic shame.

This is because we’re holding the bag for the entire system: our relationships, our families, our communities.

To overcome this inequity and what we’ve endured, we’ve tried to overcome it, out-run or out-smart it. We’ve tried and yet we couldn’t “fix it” because it’s impossible to metabolize shame that doesn’t belong to us. The body won’t allow it.

Part of healing means stopping the “fix” and feeling what is there. In my experience, the shame initially feels TRUE, “I am gross, not fit for this earth.” But when I go a little deeper, it starts to shift.

As I approach shame with a tiny bit of self-compassion, I can get a little more distance from it. Naming it can help take the sting out, allowing me to see it more objectively.

Once the shame starts to lessen, there are typically other feelings I don’t want to feel. Anger, sadness, fear. But allowing myself to feel them is what finally starts to release me. It’s what puts me back in a system in a “right sized” way, where I’m not carrying the ills for everyone, hoping they will finally take responsibility. I can metabolize the feelings that ARE mine.

I have to take responsibility for me. For the fact that I was trying to do everyone’s work for them. And this makes sense – as a trauma response – as a kid who couldn’t see her caregiver’s as deficient – for my own survival. I reacted in a way that allowed me to tolerate and survive a deeply dysfunctional environment. But now, I don’t have to carry their dysfunction inside of me. I can set it down, hand it back, release myself to more and more freedom over time.

What’s been helpful in facing the shame you have carried?

🌟Click the link in my bio to get a Free PDF of my Trauma Recovery Self-Care Toolbox, find my YouTube channel and my memoir, BELIEVING ME: Healing from Narcissistic Abuse and Complex Trauma. It’s helping countless others BELIEVE THEMSELVES.

24/01/2023

Medicare is facing its biggest ­overhaul since its inception with Labor devising a “blended” ­funding system that would open up the delivery of primary care to a wider range of health professionals – including nurses and paramedics – in a bid to save universal healthcare.

21/01/2023

January is Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention month, and we stand with s*x trade survivors in calling for the Nordic/Equality model of prostitution legislation. The Nordic model is premised on an understanding of prostitution as a system of male violence against vulnerable women and children, and targets men’s demand as the driving force behind it.

The Nordic model has been endorsed by European Parliament as best practice for tackling s*x trafficking and gender inequality. So far, it has been adopted in Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Canada, France, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Israel. Research shows that countries that have adopted the Nordic model have seen a reduction in s*x trafficking inflows – as opposed to countries with legalised prostitution, which experience an increase in s*x trafficking.

Read more >> https://www.collectiveshout.org/the_connection_between_prostitution_and_s*x_trafficking

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08/11/2022

The HOLD ME TIGHT WORKBOOK is now available for pre-order, just in time for the holidays:
https://drsuejohnson.com/books/

It’s meant as a companion to HMT, with exercises, conversation prompts, and activities to help couples strengthen their bond, deepen their intimacy, and cultivate a lifetime of love.

10/09/2022

If you want to learn more about attachment theory and you've already read 'Attached' try one of these six, therapist-recommended reads.

29/06/2022

There are many ways of coping

Managers are parentified inner children. They are usually very tired and stressed out. They’re trying to keep the world safe for our exiles while at the same time keeping our exiles contained. They also have the ability to numb our bodies so we don’t feel so much, because if you don’t feel, then you don’t get triggered. Managers are working all the time—some of them never sleep.

- Richard Schwartz

25/06/2022

Such wisdom for life

25/05/2022

The science of attachment research (not the same thing as attachment parenting) points to responsive care as the key ingredient to building strong relationships. This means when a baby cries, we try to soothe and help them, while trying to figure out what they need. We can't be perfect at this, because it's a learning process! That’s okay, & how we form an attachment❣️