Linda's Corner: Inspiration for a Better Life
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Linda's Corner: Inspiration for a Better Life
A Kidnap Survivor's Journey to Healing - Gloria Londono [Trauma, Stockholm Syndrome]
Kidnappers captured Gloria Londono, threw her in a trunk of their car and held her ransom for 90 days. To make matters worse, her three year old daughter was in daycare and there would be no mother to pick her up. Gloria is a certified life coach, podcaster, the author of Flourish In Captivity, and at age 25 was the victim of kidnapping. You can reach Gloria at her website www.glorialondono.co.
Some of the highlights Gloria shares:
- Her terrifying story of being kidnapped at gunpoint and held in the dark for 90 days
- She was a single mother with a three year old daughter
- Dealing with PTSD, depression, anxiety, and Stockholm Syndrome
- Being in survival mode
- Understanding our nervous system and our "fight, flight, freeze, or appease" survival instincts
- How trauma can affect our relationships
- You can be physically trapped and mentally free and you can be physically free and mentally trapped
- Recreating trauma cycles
- Recognizing the stories we tell ourselves and how to rewrite them
- Learning how to feel safe in your body and in your world
- Finding tools to deal with emotional triggers
- Learning how to live in the present
- We somatize our trauma (it manifests as physical problems)
- My goal is to be free in my mind and my body
- Why forgiveness is a miracle tool to achieve freedom
- Unconditional love
- Healthy people don't hurt us, it's always people that are hurting that hurt others
- And more
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