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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


Self-Analysis: What your achievements really say about you
Tomek Maciaszek | Inner Peace — Trauma Therapy | Gdynia & online In short: Achievements aren't checkboxes. They're data. Each one — big or small, successful or not — says something specific about who you are and what actually matters to you. The problem is we rarely stop long enough to listen. Table of Contents Why look back at all? Achievements as data about you What about failures? Patterns — what keeps repeating? Achievements and values The traps of self-analysis Exercise:
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May 275 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


Self-Analysis: The Complete Guide to Self-Knowledge — Who Are You, Really?
Start a journey to self-analysis by looking after your likes. Questionnaire with example answers available.
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Jul 10, 202415 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


Mindfulness: The Complete Guide to the Practice That Changes the Brain
Tomek Maciaszek | Inner Peace — Trauma Therapy | Gdynia & online Mindfulness is not a trend or a relaxation technique. It's a scientifically documented practice that literally changes brain structure, regulates the nervous system, and is one of the most effective tools in working with trauma, anxiety, and chronic stress. This guide explains how, why, and where to begin. Table of Contents What Mindfulness Actually Is The Science — What Happens in the Brain During Practice Mind
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Jul 6, 202411 min read
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