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Your Body Is Warning You! — The REAL Reason You’re So Overwhelmed

Crappy Childhood Fairy

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20 Comments

@MtnGirll 1 year ago

I'm overwhelmed because in this economy, the amount I have to work to survive is horrendous. I fall asleep eating my dinner. My body is broken from the hard labor of cleaning houses. All this while still healing from PTSD. It's been like this so many years I forgot what it was like to have hope of rest.

@karenherrera287 1 year ago

"Outrage is total emotional clutter."

@robertbenedek4463 1 year ago

So much of what Anna says will be groundwork for future healing/therapeutic approach.

Today's mainstrream mental health paradigm is a joke, including "training" for 'therapists'.

In my eyes, Anna is simply nothing short of a modern day hero!

God bless!

@davedood 1 year ago

When the phone rings, I get panicked.

@pebblebrookbooks4852 1 year ago

One thing that helped me throw things away was omg I'm donating this crap to the poor? That's not fair to the poor!! 😳

@MonicaG13 1 year ago (edited)

About the clothes! I have a painful autoimmune disease, Ankylosing Spondylitis, and it took me a bit over a decade to get accurately diagnosed. I held onto my dress shoes, dress clothes, business/office work clothes, jeans, ECT that I couldn't wear due to it causing me pain. I held onto them in hopes when I got my diagnosis, I would get better. Once I was diagnosed, and discovered it is a chronic illness, a genetic autoimmune disease, no cure.... I started to slowly donate or give myself away that I could no longer wear or use. Some people got so upset when I got rid of it, especially in-laws thought I was being "so wasteful". No, I cleared up space, I donated clothes to the battered women's shelter, I donated art stuff to a Girl Scout Troop as well as another lady that does craft tables at local events. I created more room in my closets and home, more space for new things. I also sold things too, which put a bit more money in my savings. I also created peace for myself, because hanging onto all that stuff I could no longer use, and to just sit on it, have it take up space in boxes.... No, I didn't waste anything.
I am also managing C-PTSD, and in Trauma-informed Therapy. I had to go no-contact from those who denied or disbelieved in my autoimmune disease and being Immunocompromised, my C-PTSD (due to past childhood abuse and trauma) and who pushed boundaries or exploited my empathy and kindness (including my in-laws). I choose to be around those who are emotionally, mentally, and physically safe, and it is reciprocated. 💙💜🪷 ;

PS, since I went no contact from unhealthy people, my pain and other symptoms have gone WAY down! I hardly have flares either. It is amazing!!!

@SpookyAction1111 9 months ago

I'm 8 minutes in and I cannot believe that I've put off listening to her videos for so long. This is me, 100% me! I'm going to listen carefully... I'm ready to get better!!

@RoadRunnergarage8570 1 year ago

Clutter is a HUGE issue for me!!

@garymahon1954 1 month ago

Thanks for all you are doing Anna. So many of us are lifetime traumatized by family, and the world and our sensitivity. You are a rare light.

@rmsekora509 1 year ago

I love these longer videos of Anna’s. I love when she shares snippets from her own life, too.

@amg9163 1 year ago

This compilation video is terrific! If I had this 30+ years ago, it would have replaced countless hours and thousands of dollars of (then useless) therapy. Maybe with age comes understanding, but I also believe that this channel is among the best to help me understand what maybe caused some issues and then how to resolve, all in a positive package.

@amymartin6123 10 months ago

I recently discovered your content. You have become my Mr. Roger's at 50. Thank you for helping me feel seen, understood, and explaining things so well and giving realistic tools to be better. Discovering I have been operating from severe Cptsd/Adhd as well as limerance has been profound. Understanding I've been a traumatized person and its not a character flaw is empowering. I feel hopeful for the first time in decades.

@FleurDeLis-uj2re 9 months ago

Anna really IS! SHE IS the REAL DEAL. The reason she's so good at this is because she's been thru it and in the trenches! Thank you Anna, you're a JEWEL❤

@Anonym-yr4qn 1 year ago

Seems random to mention this here but I'll say it anyways;

The biggest issue in terms of mental health that I have ever experienced;

Is the (subconscious) belief, that bad emotions will never pass and that I will be permanently stuck in them until I find a way to avoid them for good.

But that is simply not true and really held me back in life, for emotions (both good and bad) are always just temporary, always changing by the moment and what really matters, is not so much how you feel at any given time;

But how you think about what you did with your time while going through those emotions.

Like...

"Did you regret some of your decisions?"

"Would you do anything different if you could? If so: what and why?"

And so on...

I also spent a lot of time deepening almost exclusively my negative thoughts about literally anything I needed to deal with.

Obviously didn't help or advance my individual development as a human being or even just my "life" for that matter.

Can't recommend.

@cindyrhodes 1 year ago

Along with the constant anxiety, I began experiencing chest pains in my teens, and the physical issues graduated from stomach aches to migraines to a full-blown arrhythmia.

@CrankieAntie 1 year ago

I really like Marie Kondo, how she talks about letting go of objects.

@bonnieking5674 1 year ago

It amazes me how spot on you are. I’m 78 years old I’ve had anxiety since I was little probably about four to the rest of my life but it didn’t it bothered me in ways that I couldn’t describe until I got older and then I get actually see it it started bothering me mentally and physically and you hit everything right on the head it’s hard to do that sometimes I try to regulate my thoughts and maybe dismiss some of them I’ve had a childhood like you were mentioning it was a childhood nightmare and it has been difficult to do But I’m trying and I will continue to try so God bless you and thank you for your help

@42knit1 1 year ago

I wish that 5 therapists that I saw over a couple of decades understood this. I always felt like I had to train my therapist in order for them to help me... It usually ended up in them giving me some simplified checklist, as if a lack of information was my problem. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom, Anna! You've helped me more than I can say.

@Butterfly-if1qs 6 months ago

My life proves that
clutter was caused
from the trauma. And that the accrual of trauma parallelled the accrual of clutter.
I super appreciate your answers! Thank you Anna

@tazmrm0373 8 months ago

I had acute childhood trauma. I found a loving man and got married and for the next 15 years we struggled to survive. I had several children with him and after nearly 30 years, we are still married. He is not the same person. Mental health issues hit him hard one day 2019 ( he hung on until he just crashed!) Maybe you can relate to this, but he came home from work and he had an ongoing panic attack that did not let up for months! And the medicine they prescribed actually made it worse. He went from no prescriptions to over 20. He never went back to work 😢Along with this, I have many challenges because one of my adult children has severe mental illness. I work full-time caring for them and making sure the other children have their needs met. (And always feeling like I missed the boat)
I hear you describing what it’s like for someone with CPTSD… Now imagine that along with all the “little people” trying to talk to me, my child with severe mental illness not seeing reality, my marriage a mere remnant of what it used to be. And wondering myself what is my reality?
It wasn’t until I started watching your videos that I started to have some victory. I think my number one struggle is angry outbursts. I never realized it was because I was disregulated.
I cannot thank you enough. I feel like God sent an angel to finally help me walk in a new and lighter way. I have wanted to change for so many years. I finally have hope. Anna, thank you so much.