Welcome to Freaked Out and F.L.A.W.L.E.S.S.
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This community provides support for those who experience mental health challenges, are working on their personal development with the intention to live their “after-trauma life” with freedom, and need a place to grow with accountability.
We focus on belief busting, building on micro habits, implementing – which means taking action on our new knowledge, and accountability.
To keep things private, we have a community where we can have a safe place to learn and share our journey on self-development.
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Feeling lost, aimless, or disassociated?
Struggling with mental health?
Living an after-trauma life?
Living with mental illness?
Working on personal development, mindset, and self-awareness?
Need accountability, support, and like-minded folks in a no-judgment space?
You have found the right place.
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Hi, I am Emily Braveheart.
I believe that you can design your afterlife. The after-trauma life, that is.
There is no need to be trapped by mental illness or live a life filled with limitations due to the past.
But… there is no just “getting over it”, is there? Nope. There is a ton of inner work to do, and also daily life to live… and depending on your particular mental struggle – living life can be just plain tough. You’ve listened to the gurus, you’ve studied your face off, you’ve tried over and over – just another day 1… Am I right?!
No matter how many motivational videos you watch, no matter how many therapy sessions, no matter how many apps.. journals… self-help books – you are the person like me, who keeps flopping on your face. Yes, you get up again… but maybe you are a little tired of falling.
I have studied so much, I know the answers… why am I having trouble implementing them? How do I build my life into the freedom and feel-good that I imagine? It is time to take action.
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After aging out of foster care at 18, I was essentially on my own to build a good life, break the cycles of abuse, and overcome many obstacles that would label me an “underdog”. I chose to do things my own way and ended up becoming nearly every statistic a foster kid could. The exact opposite of my goal in life.
I began obsessively working to heal my mind – struggling with mental health, trauma brain, or implementing the “things” that are necessary to grow to the next level. I have spent years on the self-development journey, and while I am far from perfect… I learned many ways to cope with mental struggles and live the after-trauma life.
I am one of those people: when you instruct me to “find your earliest happy memory”, I struggle to find them. Trauma took place early in my life, in multiple forms of abuse. Most of my memories are tangled in trauma, which leaves me struggling to visualize “happiness” or “find the me that used to love myself”.
While I am sure there are happy memories back in there, unfortunately, I do not think there was a version of me that did love herself. I am not sure how someone could know how to, love themselves, in an environment of abuse. So I had to learn how. I am still uncovering layers in the “onion of healing” that challenge me to remember the tools I have accumulated so far and to learn more.
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This community is a safe space for all humans who are endeavoring on the journey to a better after-trauma life.
This space is moderated. Emily will delete comments that do not meet expectations of respect and high-level thinking of elevated individuals.
There is no marketing, advertising, selling, or self-promotion in this group unless on a specific thread stated as for that purpose.
There is no hate of any kind allowed. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has them. We can talk any topic as long as things stay respectful. Comments that are inappropriate, hateful, or hurtful will be deleted.
Don’t like it? Ignore, scroll on.. whatever… just don’t engage. Can’t do that?
This is NOT the group for you.
This is not a place where we protect hate speech masked as free speech.
However, there is a difference between respectful discussion/debate versus bullying.
We are in a free country – so you are not obligated to be part of this group. You can leave at any time, and there are no rules that we must include or accommodate you.
No racism.
LGBTQ+ friendly.
Cali-Sober friendly.
Natural Medicine/Herbalism/Apothecary/MMJ, 420, Cannabis friendly.
Emily does share spiritual texts and her opinions about them. No religion is superior or specifically supported – we are all free to believe (or not) what we want to. Take it or leave it.
No political bashing or bullying. All spectrums of beliefs and values are discussed here. Comments will be moderated and turned off – if necessary. Posts can be deleted by the admin(s) at any time, as necessary.