In my own trauma healing journey, I’ve found that it’s so incredibly important for me to listen to my body and to my emotions.
But as I’m sure you’ve discovered too, this is easier said than done. We’ve learned to ignore our body’s warning signs, as it attempts to tell us what we need. We’ve learned to focus on everything and everyone else.
And sometimes we do that so long that we just….can’t anymore.
To be blunt:
I’ve reached a wall, my friends.
I’m at a point where something has to give. I need to rest. I need to reflect. I need to assess and rethink some things and set new goals.
Today on the Art That Overcomes podcast, I want to share just a little bit about this journey I’m on, in the hopes that you’ll find yourself somewhere in this story.
What areas of your life are feeling stagnant right now? Or especially hard?
What areas are good, and thriving?
What do you want to take a break from, and what do you want to lean more into?
These are all important questions that I’m reflecting on for myself...
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Let's finish our conversation about taking control over your emotions so that you're not hurt by the narcissist again.
How do we stay centered and in control of our emotions when we have to continue communicating with the narcissist?
This is a tough one, for sure.
It all starts with addressing the trauma that is stored inside our bodies. When you become anxious or enraged at the abuser, you're not merely having an emotional reaction -- you're experiencing a trauma response.
This month on the Art That Overcomes podcast, I'm sharing a very special series with you. And last week I explained that meditation is a great place to start with addressing these emotional reactions (trauma responses).
Today you'll hear me walk you through a simple art and writing exercise to help you further explore the topic discussed on last week's episode, where I answered a question that was submitted from one of the Overcomers in my online community. This art and writing exercise was specifically created by me to help you explore today's topic for yourself and continue healing and transforming from victim, to survivor, to Overcomer.
This art task will help you take the concept of a meditation practice a step further, by adding a visual, and a mantra (or two or three).
The audio that you'll hear in the episode is taken from my free course, Overcoming With Jennifer, that can be found in my coaching app, Redefined - by Jennifer Kramer. To check out the rest of the course, scroll down to the link below.
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How do you prevent being hurt by the narcissist again down the road (when you can't go no contact)?
I know from first hand experience that this is one of the most difficult challenges to overcome.
All the advice you read on the internet about how to heal after narcissistic abuse emphasizes the importance of going "no contact".
But what if you can't???
What if you have to co-parent with your abuser?
What if you're still tied to them through other family relationships?
It all comes down to YOU controlling YOUR emotions. Because that's the number one thing that the narcissist knows just how to get ahold of, and you simply cannot afford to let them do that anymore.
I think you'll get a lot out of these practical tips...
This month on the Art That Overcomes podcast, I'm sharing a very special series with you.
Today you'll hear me answer a question that was submitted from one of the Overcomers in my online community, and then next week I'll share an art and writing exercise specifically created by me to help you explore today's topic for yourself and continue healing and transforming from victim, to survivor, to Overcomer.
The audio that you'll hear in the episode is taken from my free course, Overcoming With Jennifer, that can be found in my coaching app, Redefined - by Jennifer Kramer.
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Let's finish our conversation about trusting yourself and trusting others...
This can really be a challenging concept to grasp if you've never fully trusted your own inner voice...always people pleasing and deferring to others.
In my experience, I've found that just like any skill in life, learning to trust your intuition starts with small steps that eventually add up to big results.
This month on the Art That Overcomes podcast, I'm sharing a very special series with you.
Today you'll hear me walk you through a simple art and writing exercise to help you further explore the topic discussed on last week's episode, where I answered a question that was submitted from one of the Overcomers in my online community. This art and writing exercise was specifically created by me to help you explore today's topic for yourself and continue healing and transforming from victim, to survivor, to Overcomer.
This art task offers a chance to make small choices. There's freedom within the creative process. It's a no-judgment zone, and there's no wrong answer.
Take a few minutes for yourself.
Listen to the episode and try the art task.
Explore.
Play.
Go with your gut.
The narcissist isn't here to criticize you now. YOU are in charge.
(The audio that you'll hear in the episode is taken from my free course, Overcoming With Jennifer, that can be found in my coaching app, Redefined - by Jennifer Kramer.)
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Will I ever trust myself or others again?
This is so foundational to your healing.
Once you begin to trust yourself again (or maybe for the first time), so much is going to open up for you.
How do I know for sure?
I've been there.
And it's my mission to teach you everything I've learned so that you can start feeling confident an empowered to live your own life...NOW.
This month on the Art That Overcomes podcast, I'm sharing a very special series with you.
Today you'll hear me answer a question that was submitted from one of the Overcomers in my online community, and then next week I'll share an art and writing exercise specifically created by me to help you explore today's topic for yourself and continue healing and transforming from victim, to survivor, to Overcomer.
The audio that you'll hear in the episode is taken from my free course, Overcoming With Jennifer, that can be found in my coaching app, Redefined - by Jennifer Kramer.
Here's the link to all the things:
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Hey there, Overcomer! Today I’m sharing the final lesson of the four most important lessons I have learned from art and the practice of art therapy. If you haven’t heard my first three, you can go back and catch the last three episodes… Okay, so here is thing number 4 that art and art therapy have taught me:
Art has taught me to play, to let go, and to trust my intuition.
Narcissistic abusers have trained us (they’ve brainwashed us) to not trust ourselves, to always defer to them, to please them, to not consider our own wants and needs.
We need to learn to trust ourselves again, and we can learn to do that within the safe space of the artmaking process.
We can play, we can let go.
I always say within the creative process, there is no impulse control required. As long as you’re not damaging property or damaging or hurting yourself, or hurting others, you can do what you want.
Within the safe space of the piece of paper, of the artwork, you are free to let go. To practice what it feels like in your body to trust yourself, to trust your decisions.
I encourage you… Play with that!
Play with what you can create!
It’s safe.
Trust yourself. (or if that seems scary, at least give it some practice)
I’ve shared some of this story before on the podcast fairly recently…I can’t remember where, but I thought it relevant to share here too:
Back when I was an art student in college (in undergrad, before going back to school to study art therapy), I got to a place mentally and emotionally with my art where I think I was on the verge of being burned out, and I was getting sick of all the pressure I felt to create “good” art.
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Hey there, Overcomer! Today I’m sharing another one of my top 4 important lessons I have learned from art and the practice of art therapy. This is number 3.. So if you haven’t heard my first two, you can go back and catch the last two episodes… Alright, so number 3 thing that art and art therapy have taught me:
We know that trauma is stored in our body, in our nervous system. So, the most effective trauma treatments and even self help activities are ones that engage our physical bodies. One way to do this is through the art media. I shared in last week’s episode about how fluid media can help us be more expressive with our feelings, and resistive media can help us rein it in and feel more in control.
On top of that, here are a few other techniques to add to your artmaking practice that will take the therapeutic aspect of artmaking even further...
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Hey there, Overcomer! Today I’m sharing an important lesson I have learned from art and the practice of art therapy. And it might sound a bit out there at first…
But here it is:
You can strategically use different art media in order to access and have an effect on your emotions in different ways. I think this feels straight up magical!
So, let me explain…
All art media can be categorized on a spectrum from fluid to resistive...
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Hey there, Overcomer! Today I’m sharing an important lesson I have learned from art and the practice of art therapy. And it’s a bit controversial….
You don’t need therapy for EVERYTHING.
There it is! I said it! Now, here’s why…
We deceive ourselves into thinking that there’s something magical about the therapy process, to the point where sometimes we can even become dependent on our therapist. We can get trapped in the mindset that we can’t do anything without “professional help”.
Now, don’t get me wrong, therapy is amazing! I’m a licensed art therapist. I work with clients. I have been a client in therapy off and on for many years. We need that! But it is not the Holy Grail, it is not the fix all for everything.
We need to learn to implement some skills ourselves...
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We’ve all heard the phrase, “too much of a good thing.”
This thought is usually associated with the concept of moderation.
For example, ice cream is yummy, but eating it all day every day would be too much of a good thing.
It wouldn’t be healthy for your body.
You’d feel like crap.
You wouldn’t be getting all the nutrients that your body needs.
Ice cream in moderation, however…as a dessert after a meal every once in a while, can be a good thing. It’s fun, it’s enjoyable.
It’s a good thing in moderation, but not in excess. And most of us would agree with this, when it comes to ice cream.
In my observation, there are a decent number of people out there in the world who do not agree with the concept of “too much of a good thing” when it comes to positivity, or having a positive attitude.
Rather, many people view this as the goal! Their goal in life is to achieve a constant state of bliss and happiness.
On last week’s episode of Art That Overcomes, entitled, My 3 Tips to Reframe Negative Self Beliefs, I talked about the importance of feeling all of our feelings. We can’t selectively numb certain emotions. I think that sometimes people who are feeling down or depressed try to squash their uncomfortable and unwanted emotions, only to find themselves unintentionally shutting down their happiness and joy as well… to a point where they may not be feeling much of anything, or at least aren’t aware of what they’re feeling.
On the flip side, I think there are plenty of people who are SO incredibly uncomfortable with what they perceive as “negative” emotions, that they do their very best to appear very positive on the surface, all the time. But they’re not necessarily any better off than their depressed counterparts.
The truth that I want to confront you with today is that these two types of people are actually very similar...
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We’ve all got a story to tell about ourselves.
And whether your story is negative, positive, or a little bit of both is completely up to you.
If you’re thinking: “Well, somewhat… But so much of what has happened to me has been out of my control!”...then let’s break this down a bit more.
Yes, of course you can’t control everything that’s happened to you. We especially tend to think of this lack of control when it comes to the bad or stressful experiences in life.
The abuse.
The betrayal.
The job loss.
The deaths.
The storm.
And on, and on, and on.
Yes, life happens to us. BUT, at the risk of sounding totally cliched, I want to remind you that YOUR REACTION to events in your life is most definitely within your control. Your reactions MATTER...So much!
And how do we get to a place where we can actually control our reactions?
It all starts with our mindset.
The thoughts we have influence the emotions we feel and the behaviors (or reactions) that result.
When we continually think in negative terms, always assuming the worst, or maybe even hoping for the best but still expecting the other shoe to drop (so to speak)....... This can become a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy.
I spent the last three episodes of the Art That Overcomes podcast talking about the concept of manifesting the life we want. I believe that we can, to a large extent, create the life that we desire for ourselves. But this doesn’t just work when we’re thinking about creating our desired reality (the good stuff that’s on our vision board).
The concept of manifestation also applies to some of the negative repercussions that happen after difficult, stressful, or traumatic events in our lives.
Let me be clear that I do NOT think you are responsible for the trauma and abuse you have endured. I do NOT believe that if something bad happens in your life (like a tornado taking out your house, a family member dying, or any other loss or hardship) that you somehow deserve it or you brought it on due to your negative thinking.
HOWEVER, some people choose to frame their suffering as an inevitable and inherent part of WHO THEY ARE.
Some people (and yes I can acknowledge that I’ve been in this place too) can get so used to suffering, hardship, and abuse that they just expect it and therefore actually integrate this kind of experience into their sense of self.
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Hey, Overcomer… welcome back to this special little podcast series called What Are Your Manifesting? Today I’m excited to bring you the final part, episode 3 of the series. If you haven’t listened to parts 1 and 2 yet, I suggest you scroll down and click play on those episodes first. Then I’ll still be here when you get back.
One of the words that came up for me as I was doing the art and writing exercise suggested in last week’s episode was NEW.
As a refresher, I was drawing an image to represent how I want my life to feel.
If I woke up tomorrow, everything was different, and my stressors had disappeared, what would I see? What would be the first sign? How would I feel?
And I keep coming back to the word, NEW.
The entire foundation for my Redefined coaching program and everything that I do here online and on the podcast to help women who are overcoming the lasting effects of narcissistic abuse is centered on exploring the concept of identity. I also talk a lot about this in my book, The Uncommon Guide to Healing From Narcissistic Abuse.
In my experience both personally and professionally, after a certain point it really doesn’t matter how much therapy, coaching, or other personal development things we’ve done if we don’t know who we are, at our core....
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Last week on Art That Overcomes, I encouraged you to consider whether you are operating out of an “unhealed” energy, or a “healed” energy.
I always emphasize that our healing journey is endless, so there’s no one, perfect endpoint or destination to this journey that we’re all striving for… but that said, it’s ideal to actually be moving along on that journey at any given time…or most of the time, anyway…at least moving...not stuck.
Movement means we’re living out of this healed or healing energy.
In contrast, operating from the “unhealed” place of being stuck in a victim mindset, hyper focused on your abuser’s behaviors, and/or constantly reading or watching YouTube videos about trauma, abuse, and narcissism will all just keep you stagnant… not actually moving toward your dreams and goals.
Heck, you may not even be able to identify a goal…
When I talk with clients and potential clients about their goals for the future, some people have a really good idea of what they’re moving towards.
Whether their dream is very tangible and practical, such as living in a certain place, having a certain type of relationship or job, etc., or whether it’s pretty simple and elusive, like they just want to feel “peace”, or “rest”, or “confidence”.... Either way, it’s a goal. A dream.
Something that they can identify they’d like to have or achieve in their life.
But it’s not uncommon for others to tell me that they have no idea what their goal is. It’s like their mind is totally blank when it comes to dreaming about a future of their choosing.
If this is you (or if you’ve been there before), it makes sense...
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Welcome to episode one of a three part series that I am calling, What are You Manifesting?
Now, the term “manifestation” can mean different things to different people. For the purpose of this series, what I mean by this question is basically, “what are you creating in your life?”.
I’ll talk more about my thoughts on manifestation in part two. But today, let’s lay a little more groundwork first…
Sometimes, in our journeys of healing from narcissistic abuse, or whatever other trauma we’ve experienced, we unintentionally keep ourselves stuck in the beginning stage of healing.
One way we do this is to stay in what I call the “information gathering phase”.
Are you an information gatherer?
I was definitely in this phase for a long time after leaving an abusive relationship. The tricky part is that being an information gatherer is really beneficial, in the beginning....
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The power of art to act as a mirror for the artist (a way to reflect back the artist’s thoughts, emotions, and sense of self) is not a concept unique to the field of art therapy.
If you’ve ever created art, in any discipline (music, dance, theater, writing, or visual art) then you likely know what I’m talking about. There’s something about engaging in a creative project that forces you to look at yourself, your identity, and even your place in the world.
And this requires a lot of bravery. It requires the courage to look at yourself in a raw and honest way. It’s not for the faint of heart!
But I think you’ll find that the most powerful and impactful art out there in the world was created with this type of courage and raw vulnerability....
...creative and artistic expressions connect us to each other. AND, they connect us to ourselves. Art has the power to mirror ourselves back to us, and when shown to others, has the power to mirror others too.
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Our brains naturally want to keep us in survival mode, ready for the next threat around the corner….just in case. It’s a trauma response that is designed to help us when there's an imminent threat to our safety. But it does not serve us well once we’re safe from the abuse and don’t have an immediate reason to stay on high alert all the time.
In order to heal, we need to live life in between therapy sessions, reflect on how far we’ve come (even if it’s only an inch and you want to reach one mile), and save the trauma memories for certain special occasions only (like therapy, for example). Last week I talked about working toward a place in our healing where we feel safe returning home to ourselves…. Where we feel at home with ourselves.
From my perspective as a spiritual person and a Christian, I also believe it’s important to remember that God is our victor (he’s the ultimate hero) and he’s carrying us through to victory over our suffering and pain.
We are our own heroes too, don’t get me wrong! But I believe that my God, my Creator, is ultimately the one sustaining me. The truth is I wouldn’t be where I am today without God. My faith is integral to how I healed using this art and writing process that I teach.
That’s why I’ve worked some of this into my Redefined Process coaching program…an opportunity to invite God’s spirit into our art and writing process, so we can hear insight from his spirit within us, not only from our subconscious mind. I feel like if I’m not honest in sharing about my faith in this context, then I’m not only failing to give you my full story, but I’m failing to give you all the tools that I’ve found to be successful.
I remember early on in my journey of breaking away from narcissistic abuse, when I was still contemplating how to leave an abusive relationship....
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I believe that we were all created to thrive. We were designed for it. You have a purpose here on this earth, whether you know it or not.
Period.
You were created for so much more than your trauma story.
SO. MUCH. MORE.
And it’s okay to feel that…to really own it. It’s not arrogant or rude or self absorbed or self-righteous to say, “I have value! I have worth! I have a purpose!” and “I was created and designed intentionally by my God to be exactly who I am, right now.”
There’s NOTHING wrong with you.
There’s nothing WRONG with you.
There’s nothing wrong with YOU.
Now, of course no one is perfect, and I’m not claiming that you are. I’m certainly not perfect either. We all have room to grow and advance and evolve into more and more of who we were created to be.
But that doesn’t have to mean that you are wrong or bad right now, as you are. You are simply a version of you. There have been many past versions, and there will hopefully be many more to come. And it’s up to YOU whether those future versions of yourself are growing and growing, and healing and healing some more…and becoming more and more free and self expressed.
You shouldn’t feel any guilt if you’re kinda stuck right now…. Still trying to figure out how to get to the next version. Let me say that again…. You shouldn’t feel guilty. Just because it’s up to you to heal and grow doesn’t mean you need to feel guilt or shame if you think you’re not growing in the way that you should, or not growing and changing fast enough.
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Hey there, Overcomer.
I believe that YOU were designed with a purpose, a passion, and a mission all your own.
Yes, YOU.
I believe this is true because I also believe that you were created by a creative Creator.
On today's episode, I want to share with you a recording that is available within my Redefined coaching app. This is from a video included in one of four video bundles that I offer to those paying for my monthly Redefined Membership.
I'm offering it for free to you today on the podcast because I thought it would be a great way to kick off a conversation about the topic of spirituality as it relates to our identity….our sense of self…our sense of purpose and who we are in the world and how we relate to others.
After the recording, I hop back on in this episode to share some additional thoughts AND the exact art and writing prompts that are included with this recording inside of my Redefined app.
You were created for so much more than your trauma story.
I've packed a lot of value into this episode, just for you.
I hope you’ll give it a listen.
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It can be really hard for me to stay present. Like, really hard! My mind is prone to wander and I could literally spend hours daydreaming and not get bored. I attribute some of this tendency to my introverted, artist brain who would rather live in fantasy and watch the clouds roll by, thinking in detail about all the vacations I want to take, the clothes I’ll wear, how I’ll feel, what art I’ll be making, and who will be with me on my adventures… than actually do anything that others would qualify as “work” or “practical” things, or “adulting”. But honestly a lot of this tendency to daydream is still due to the effects of trauma.
Daydreaming and living in fantasy land is a way that I dissociate. It’s a way that I find myself automatically zoning out in an attempt to seek pleasure. It’s a go-to when I’m tired, restless, anxious, or sick. It feels better than being overwhelmed or feeling guilty because I’ve procrastinated so much. In those moments, I’d rather dream about a beach vacation, or the next big art project, than actually take action to help me achieve that thing in reality. But, if you’ve been around here long enough, or have done any kind of therapy or coaching yourself, then you know that this dissociation ultimately doesn’t serve me very well. And it doesn’t serve you either.
Daydreaming itself can be good, to a certain extent, in the sense of helping me create a vision for the future, and visualizing my future and feeling the feelings of having already achieved those goals can help me get in the energy of who my Future Self will be. But at some point I simply have to be able to return to the present and take action.
Today, I’m sharing all about my practice of learning to be present, along with a few other important “P” words… pause, persistence, and patience.
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Who gets to decide what real art is…and who the real artists are? And if a piece of artwork is good or not?
Do you have to exhibit artwork for others to see? Do you have to perform on a stage or on video?
Today I’m sharing my two cents on this topic.
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