@litemindedtherapy: FOR CONTEXT: this isn’t about blaming people for what happened to them, minimizing trauma, or pretending everyone has equal freedom in every situation. There are many times when a person’s options are genuinely constrained by abuse, coercion, finances, safety, discrimination, illness, or dependence. And trauma itself can make choice feel much less accessible by shaping what the nervous system expects, what feels dangerous, and what a person believes they’re capable of tolerating. The distinction I’m interested in is what happens when powerlessness becomes a lens that persists even when some agency has returned! Sometimes protecting the belief that “there’s nothing I can do” also protects us from grief, conflict, guilt, uncertainty, or the possibility of making a choice we might regret. Reclaiming agency doesn’t mean deciding you caused your pain. It means getting curious about where your influence exists now (even if the available choices are imperfect, uncomfortable, or much smaller than you wish they were.) #learnedhelplessness #traumatok #relationshippatterns #therapytok #psychology

Alivia Hall | NYC Therapist

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