Kimberly Dragon-Flournoy

Most “nice” people aren't actually nice. They’re anxious. 9 signs “niceness” may be holding you back.🧵 1. YOU KEEP THE PEACE AT YOUR OWN EXPENSE 𝘿𝙧 𝙂𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙧 𝙈𝙖𝙩é

Here are 7 ways trauma hides itself. And how it runs our lives.🧵 1. TRAUMA DOESN’T STAY IN THE PAST

Addiction? Depression? Anxiety? Relationship Problems? Carl Jung mapped out the solutions decades ago. Here are 8 Jungian concepts that can change your life: 1. THE SHADOW (𝙃𝙪𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙣 𝙅𝙪𝙣𝙜)

Food addiction is real. A lot of people are not “overeating.” They are self-soothing, dissociating, obsessing, and surviving. Here are 9 things most people completely miss about compulsive eating: 1. FOOD CAN HIT THE BRAIN LIKE A DRUG

800 years before Bessel van der Kolk, Gabor Maté, and Peter Levine... Rumi understood trauma healing. 7 healing lessons from Rumi: 🧵 1. PAIN NEEDS MOTION 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙝𝙞𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘿𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙨 👇

Think positive. Push harder. Be more disciplined. The leading trauma experts say that's a recipe for more misery. Here are 7 things they keep trying to teach us — and most of us ignore: 🧵 1. WE ALL HAVE TRAUMA - SEVERE OR SUBTLE

Most goals fail for one reason: They belong to someone else. Your parents. Your industry. Your culture. Your trauma. Here are 7 things most people miss about vision, goals, and building a life that actually fits:🧵 1. GOALS ARE OVERRATED

You may not be living your life. You may be living a role you were assigned in childhood. Here are 7 signs enmeshment is still running the show:🧵 1. ENMESHMENT IS CONFUSED IDENTITY

We’re not just looking for love. We’re trying to medicate an abandonment wound. That’s why some breakups feel psychologically catastrophic. Here are 7 things most people miss about love addiction and the “sucking hole” inside us: 1. THE PAIN IS OLDER THAN THE RELATIONSHIP

Relationships fail because the unhealed child within runs the show.

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The very best thing we can do for ourselves, our families, our communities, and the world... Is to own the victim and narcissist within ourselves. And get off the topic of "them."

You don’t just remember trauma. You relive it—every single day. In your posture. Your reactivity. Your inability to relax. Here’s what The Body Keeps the Score reveals—and how to finally heal it (by a PhD psychologist):🧵

Vulnerability is the new cool. Most of us still don’t know how to do it. And without it—we stay stuck. Dr Brené Brown

When grief is repressed, and it finally comes forward, it feels like the end of the world. If we have a regular practice of allowing the grief to move, it becomes a river that flows very closely with joy.

Are you afraid of “getting in trouble”? There is no trouble. You’re an adult. The principal isn’t calling your parents. You've been indoctrinated. That's why you're stuck. Professor George Carlin

If you’re worried about fascism, don’t just look at flags and uniforms. Watch how power behaves when groups get big. Watch how we lose our humanity and autonomy through fear. 🧵

If you think 𝙒𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙 is just flashy songs and dancing—look closer. It’s a story about shadow and projection, power and propaganda, and what happens when authenticity is punished. Everything Jung tried to teach about the Shadow is there: -The “wicked” one is the most honest. -The “good” ones are performative and corrupted. -“No good deed goes unpunished.” The fascist impulse—to control narrative and crush truth—is the real villain. In the end, 𝙒𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙 isn’t about witches. It’s about the only way to save the world: Heal and reclaim the parts of ourselves we’ve cast out. The Inner Work Community is open now for enrollment. 👇👇

We hold pockets of old pain in the body. The mind tries to manage it by scanning for danger. Replaying worst-case scenarios from the past. It thinks it’s protecting us, but it’s keeping us trapped. Trauma blocks the present until it’s felt and released. Dr Bessel van der Kolk

Some depression is chemical—it pulls us down no matter what we do. That requires medical attention. But most of what we call depression is old pain, trapped in the body. Unprocessed grief, anger, and fear slowly painting the world in darker colors.