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Is This Trauma? 5 Signs You Shouldn't Ignore
Tomek Maciaszek | Inner Peace — Trauma Therapy | Gdynia & Online For a long time, I thought trauma belonged to other people. To those who had been through something truly serious. An accident. War. Violence. What happened to me that was just a difficult childhood stress and/or life. It took me a long time to understand that trauma isn't defined by the event. It's defined by what happens in the nervous system. And that you can carry trauma from something that, from the outside
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Jul 28 min read


The Window of Tolerance. Why You Sometimes Feel Too Much. And Why Sometimes You Feel Nothing At All
For years, I thought something was wrong with me. I remember nights when the pain was so intense I lay on the floor counting minutes. Cluster headaches. Nineteen years. And somewhere in the back of my mind, a thought kept smouldering: maybe this is my fault. Maybe I'm too sensitive. Maybe I'm just weak. But there was another kind of suffering, quieter, less obvious. One moment I was at the edge of explosion for no clear reason. Heart racing, thoughts spiralling, body tight as
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Jun 289 min read


Why belief alone doesn't heal trauma - and what actually does
Belief feels powerful. But trauma lives in the nervous system, not the mind. Discover why conviction without behavioral change keeps you stuck — and what trauma healing actually requires.
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Jun 188 min read


Nervous System Regulation: The complete guide — Why your body reacts before you have time to think
Nervous system regulation — what it is, how to recognise your state, polyvagal theory and the window of tolerance. A complete guide with regulation techniques from immediate to long-term.
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May 259 min read


PTSD and C-PTSD — What's the difference, How to recognise them, and what healing looks like
Tomek Maciaszek | Inner Peace — Trauma Therapy | Gdynia & online PTSD and C-PTSD sound similar, but they are two completely different experiences. Different causes, different symptoms, different therapeutic approaches. If you feel like "something is wrong" but can't quite name it — this article may help you understand your reactions and see that what you're feeling makes sense. Table of Contents How Do You Know It Might Be PTSD or C-PTSD? Comparison Table: PTSD vs C-PTSD PTSD
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May 2111 min read


Childhood Trauma: Effects in adult life and the Path to Healing
Tomek Maciaszek | Inner Peace — Trauma Therapy | Gdynia & online Childhood trauma doesn't announce itself with a name tag. It doesn't always show up as a memory you can point to and say — that, that was the moment. More often, it arrives quietly: in the way you flinch when someone raises their voice, in the relationships that keep going wrong in the same way, in the gnawing feeling that no matter what you achieve, you still don't quite believe you deserve it. I've sat with ma
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May 2014 min read


The Parts Within Us: Understanding your inner world through IFS and Parts work
Tomek Maciaszek | Inner Peace — Trauma Therapy | Gdynia & online For a while I thought that what was in me — the anger, the fear, the critical voice that never lets up — was just me. That's how I am. That's who I am. And then I understood that it's not "me" — it's parts of me. Shaped in specific conditions, at a specific time, for a specific reason. Doing what they knew how to do so I could survive. That doesn't sound like a big discovery. But it changes everything about how
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Jan 6, 202510 min read


Emotions: The complete guide to understanding what you feel and why
Each emotion carries an impulse which directly or indirectly affects various organs. Joy quickens the circulation and stimulates the brain
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Jul 17, 20249 min read


Inner Peace Techniques: Why we need them, How they work, and How to start today?
techniques for inner peace. "Be not ashamed to be helped" M. Aurelius
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Jul 16, 20248 min read


Psychosomatic troubles of our life
Men imagine that thought can be kept secret, but it cannot, it rapidly crystallizes into habit, and habit solidifies into circumstance.
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Jul 14, 202417 min read


How we think and how trauma affects it — A complete guide to the Mind
Tomek Maciaszek | Inner Peace — Trauma Therapy | Gdynia & online We all think differently — but there is a shared pattern by which we can recognise what's happening in the mind. Our thoughts divide into conscious and unconscious, controlled and uncontrolled. Trauma disrupts this system more deeply than anything else — and understanding how we think is the first step to understanding why we react the way we do. Table of Contents The Map of the Mind — How Our Thoughts Are Organ
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Jul 8, 202413 min read
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