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Welcome to Ax Your Trauma!
So glad you made it! This is part of your Journey, part of your Healing, part of your Sacred Life. This site is not just about a Clothing Line. It combines Original Abstract Expressionist Art with a Bold Statement about CPTSD, Narcissistic Personality Disorder Relationships and Toxic Situations of all kinds. I am here to Learn, Grow and spread Education, Healing and Empowerment to Adults who have experienced Childhood, Narcissistic and every other type of Emotional, Mental, Physical and Spiritual Abuse and Trauma. By giving you the tools to own the words of Identification and Growth that you have come upon in books, podcasts, vlogs and blogs, this mindset becomes as second skin as your Clothing does. I want to approach this with FUN in mind. All too often, Healing from these intensities focuses mainly on the negativities we have experienced and remains sullen, angry and aggressive in an often futile attempt to be heard by the WRONG people.
So, with a playful Heart and Mind, own your Power and let it be known! Experience Ax Your Trauma, and rest assured, there is so much more to come.
10% of all proceeds will be donated to organizations that work to spread awareness and healing for CPTSD.
The Attention Seeker
Expressing herself wildly, arms gesturing as loud, hurried words stream from her mouth. She is storytelling. Her life wide open for anyone who will hear…and loud enough so that everyone does. She is talking over the disinterested, narcissistic family lodged in her head from childhood, stuck, like a thorn, in her soul. Those who talked before she was finished talking, louder than she did, as though her words were boring and something to suffer through. She is loud now, and speaks quickly and aggressively to be sure she can get her point across, though her family is nowhere to be found, some dead, others scattered and non communicative. When someone hears her now and compliments what she has to say, she is suspicious. What could they want? She guesses they want a compliment in return, and refuses to give it. She wouldn’t give someone so manipulative the time of day she tells herself. Though in fact, this is not what they want. They want nothing but to give her a compliment that is true and deeply felt. She puts her walls up, strong and thick. Her family, now disembodied thoughts, memories and patterns, smile sardonically. She tells another story, again so wildly. She drinks more coffee and depressively tells herself that she has once again been rejected and is once again so alone, while the people who care about her sigh with resignation.
By Janice M. Burke
Flying Monkeys, Who They Are
Flying monkeys are people who often grew up in dysfunctional households where drama was a way of life. They still live this way and do not understand how they are the ones causing problems, not the target. They will often contemptuously talk about karma and use that as a reason to be abusive. They genuinely believe that they’re not doing or saying anything wrong. They have placed all blame of everything onto whoever they are targeting. They often believe that they are either defending someone or that they are somehow doing right by society in ostracizing the target that they believe is bad. Just like the household they grew up in they do not take responsibility for any of their words or actions.
They jump all in to harm and isolate another all the while unaware that they are nothing more than the narcissist’s plaything. Many times, they don't even understand they are a participant, they just think they are being "funny". They are driven by a need to be acknowledged. Most of the time, they truly believe that there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with what they are doing. If anyone were to tell them they are a Flying Monkey, they would become deeply offended because they truly see nothing wrong with their words and actions...it is the other person's fault they would say, the OTHER PERSON DESERVES TO BE MOCKED, ISOLATED AND OSTRACIZED!!! THE OTHER PERSON IS WHAT'S WRONG!!!!
Unfortunately, joining a group of haters and targeting ANYONE with the intent of harm and isolation is sadly prevalent and almost everyone has participated in it at some point in time. Before you scream NOT ME think about those social media posts where just one hater starts a logical sounding hatement, yes, hatement, and everyone jumps on, giving no thought to the person behind the original post. What about that person who snidely mentions some keywords of a narcissist's target campaign when the target is trying to have a friendly conversation? How about the one who chooses a User ID that is mean and sarcastic and aimed at a particular person? Or the one who comments some personal information aimed at a target, when only the target would understand it, and everyone else would think nothing of it? Can’t forget about the Loudspeaker who must stand at least 25 feet away and use only words that are piercing to the target yet indirect and of course, the people who speak directly to their intended target, but do it in an indirect way that is easily denied if confronted. 🤮🤮🤮 Good ol’ social media, making the narcissist’s task much easier, and so much more widespread. PLEASE WAKE UP. Be kind to the target. Understand you know nothing of the True story, you have received only lopsided information, no matter HOW convincing it may seem.
By Janice M. Burke
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