16. Overcompensation-Collapse-Getbackup; Recovery Backslides and Resilience

So you've got a head full of traumatic events and the punches just keep rolling.

What happens when we're "partly recovered"... only to have some new information/event seep in and stir our history of negative narratives up? Do we admit we're struggling? Or do we "push through" the remerging symptoms for as long as we can, entering into a trauma-classic cycle:

Symptomatic Ignorance - Overcompensation - Collapse - Paroxysm

What does it mean about us if we falter in our progress? Are we weak for "failing to resist" against this new information? Or are we wise to aim for resilience - acknowledging there are bugs in our brain programming rn, falling down, but ultimately getting thefuckbackup? Plus, how does this conversation apply to our current traumacult culture?

Today, let's do a quick catchup - what've we been covering on the Patreon opt-in podcast stream all spring while this host has gone through her own Ignorance-Overcompensation-Collapse-Paroxysm-Reintegration cycle. 

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