Armee,
I'm very grateful for how informative you've been about the things you've been exploring, like Music Therapy, rather than music lessons, and yoga with trauma-wise instructors. These are things I hadn't really known about before. I read what you write and I start wanting to research these kinds of things in my city also.
The practitioners, coaches, therapists, teachers, etc., in our world who are becoming trauma-sensitive are a new and wonderful thing. They're opening these activities up for us too, helping us learn despite our EFs.
My new Hypnotherapist/spiritual healer/trauma therapist, is offering some group sessions in April where she is going to teach some helpful yoga techniques. I tried Yoga once and left feeling like I'd just been re-humiliated in a junior high PE class with another bad PE teacher. I've never tried it since. Too triggering! Your report that yoga can now be taught by people who understand trauma, well...that's great news for me. Perhaps I'll take Amy up on her April group sessions.
And it brings me great pleasure to read that you're successfully digging out of your hole and seeing over the edge. I am sending you all the love I can that the hole never cave back in, and that the progress you've been making these past few years is sticking. This new wave of trauma-sensitive helpers in the world is something to keep pursuing, for both you and myself. Sometimes when we move forward, we really don't slide back, certainly not as far as all the way back to the beginning. I have faith that your progress is, to some monumental degree, permanent forward progress.
