This Week's FSA Recovery Affirmation
Uncovering and integrating lost survival 'parts'
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This week’s topic theme here on the FSA Education Substack is healing from complex trauma and structural dissociation as we begin to reintegrate fragmented aspects of self or ‘parts’ that helped us survive abusive, traumatizing family environments.
If you are a survivor of family scapegoating abuse committed to ‘healing what is split’, you have embarked upon a courageous journey of reclaiming your truth and healing the wounds caused by family scapegoating, wounds that may have resulted in your experiencing complex trauma with attendant structural dissociation (which I will be addressing in a post for all subscribers later this week).
Via this courageous process, you are learning to embrace all aspects of your being—the parts of you that were rejected or labeled, and the parts of you that were hidden to avoid further scapegoating. Your journey is not about erasing these experiences or aspects of self (or ‘parts’) that helped you to survive a traumatizing, abusive family environment, but about honoring them as key aspects of your growth and transformation.