Rachel Abi

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If you remove your job title, your relationship status, and your maternal role, do you know who is actually left? Stop hiding behind societal labels. Claim your identity back. Full episode link in bio. #CPTSD #IdentityLoss #TraumaThrive #InTheNude
"I can't" isn't a factual measurement of your capability; it's just the echo of a childhood where you weren't allowed to try. Challenge the script. Prove your own power to yourself. Full episode out now. #CPTSDTriggers #SelfEfficacy #ClaimYourPower
Betrayal trauma doesn’t just break your present; it steals the future you spent years building. You are allowed to fiercely grieve the life you were supposed to have. Full episode is raw and painful—watch now. #BetrayalRecovery #GriefJourney #CPTSD
Your hyper-vigilance isn't brokenness; it's an incredibly smart defense system that kept you alive during trauma. Stop fighting your body and start feeding it somatic safety. Full episode link below. #NeuroscienceOfTrauma #CPTSD #NervousSystemRegulation
You deserve a life you love: now it's time to do the uncomfortable of feeling so you can get it. Come feel and forge a life you love with us
You keep waiting for the anxiety to disappear before you change your life, but that day isn't coming. When you are recovering from a high-control background, making a basic decision for yourself triggers a massive wave of panic because your childhood brain associates independence with total abandonment. You feel completely defeated because the simple act of choosing what you want makes you feel physically sick.

Cliche and Cringe = ME

I spent too much of my life trying to make other people happy. For that effort I got 3 autoimmune diseases and counting. Subjugating my body, will, mind and feelings to a small pocketbook in a closet.

I’ve been pretty open about the damage and drama I have lived through even recently.

Your hair much like your body keeps the score. There isn’t out running or chopping off the hurts and betrayals.

You keep buying the books and tracking your progress, but you feel utterly defeated because you can't seem to master your trauma. If you grew up around behavior-focused parents or inside high-control religious systems, you were trained to believe that mistakes are fatal. You learned that you are only safe when you are a master of your environment, so now you treat your recovery like a corporate performance review.
You feel completely defeated because you have analyzed your trauma from every single angle, yet your body still feels permanently stuck in a survival response. When you grow up in a high-control system or with emotionally unintelegent parents, your brain learns that certainty is your only shield against danger. You become an expert at overthinking because trusting your body's natural instincts was never safe. Now, trying to step into intuitive living feels like stepping off a literal cliff.
You look in the mirror every day and audit your flaws, wondering why all your self-investment isn't fixing your life. When you grow up in a high-control background or around emotionally unintelegent parents, your baseline settings are programmed for constant self-criticism. You think that if you just analyze your patterns hard enough, you will finally fix the parts of you that feel unlovable. But you are just recreating the exact same hyper-vigilant cage you escaped from.