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Resources & Connect
Learning how to lean into living can be scary. It’s easier to pack our schedule and stay busy, running from ourselves. Facing the truth and dealing with changes can be overwhelming; it takes way less energy to shut down and sleep instead of dealing with our situation. What has happened to us can seem impossible to overcome when we are already overwhelmed. Sometimes the struggles we experience can seem less intimidating than our fear of the future if we even have the gumption to try and look past today. All these limiting beliefs or distractions from how we truly feel, can keep us stuck in a cycle or pattern, even when we’re not happy with our current situation. Feeling trapped, questioning ourselves, or muzzled, we soldier on, as best we can.
We can break these cycles. We can learn to tend our mind, body, and soul to begin again, as a whole person. We begin to live, love, and learn healthier ways to be every day. We discover what healthy relationships look, sound, and feel like to us. We become skilled at creating our own safety and learn how to trust ourselves. We learn to protect ourselves with boundaries and yet live fully open-heartedly. We give ourselves permission to exist, play and be child-like, without shame.
Crisis Response Information
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1.800.273.8255
A crisis chat room is available from 2pm to 2am at: www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org
Rape, Incest, Abuse National Network (RAINN) 1.800.656.HOPE
A crisis chat room is available 24 hours a day at: www.RAINN.org
Crisis Link Text Hotline
24-hour crisis help by text message is available: www.CrisisLink.org/crisislinks-text-hotline
Emotional Abuse Text Hotline
Text CONNECT to 741741 in the United States. www.crisistextline.org
Love Is Respect
Domestic Violence Resources and Support
Call: 1.866.331.9474
TTY: 1.866.331.8453
Text: loveis to 22522
DrugRehab.com
Addiction Recovery Resources and Support
Call: 1. 855-520-2898
TTY: 1.866.331.8453
24/7 Support Available
If you or a loved one needs help for a substance use disorder, call SAMHSA’s National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP.
Get your ACEs Score
https://acestoohigh.com/got-your-ace-score/
Childhood experiences, both positive and negative, have a tremendous impact on future violence victimization and perpetration, and lifelong health and opportunity. As such, early experiences are an important public health issue. Much of the foundational research in this area has been referred to as Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
Take the Dissociative Experiences Quiz
Dissociative Experiences Scale http://traumadissociation.com/des
