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The job to heal traumas and wounds that have been in your family for generations shouldn’t be up to you to fix. But, no one before you took the opportunity, or cared enough to do the work. It’s not an easy being the one left to heal all these wounds, yet here you are- doing what no one before you, in your family, could. Well done!! Your future lineage thanks you!!! 😘💜✌🏻 | The Mommy Confessions

Memory flashbacks are well known when it comes to trauma. But, what’s lesser known are cognitive flashbacks, where survivors of trauma vocalize things said to them, or things they never got to say to others in moments of stress, anxiety and tension. Someone may have never said, “STOP, you’re abusing me” to their abuser. So, it’s not uncommon for these kinds of things to come out later in life, many times in relationships with other people, who aren’t actually doing hurtful things to them. But, t