I remember reading some research from nutritionist and psychologist Marc David, and he was reviewing a study on weight loss. The weight loss experiment was successful with many women losing weight and hitting their weight loss targets. The most successful women in the weight loss experiment then started to regain their weight at a very rapid pace (without explanation) and the experiment was cancelled. Another researcher recontacted the group of women who regained their weight very quickly, only to find out that they were all sexually assaulted in their past and felt an immense fear regarding becoming healthy again, believing that becoming more attractive would bring about another assault and attack.

Unfortunately this is more than common. Statistics declare that 1 in 3 women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime. My personal belief is that this number is much much higher. When we experience trauma, fear, panic, mistrust and violation…..our brains become hyper active in a way that can easily make us life long self abusers. Once a fear and attack like this impacts the nervous system, it comes easy for the PTSD infused victim to literally take the baton from their abuser and pay that abuse forward upon themselves (by their own hand) for an entire lifetime. We can either allow the abuser to destroy our lives from the time of the abuse going forward or we can refuse for the abuser’s evil energy to steer our ship aground. It’s never easy to recover from abuse but there are modifications we can apply to our own brains and bodies that make us more immune to our past traumas. I’ll be discussing those modifications, remedies and strategies in my upcoming on line course on self sabotage, being released in Nov of 2018. Everyone deserves peace and the ability to walk into their best life. May the power find everyone reading this tonight to start that journey.