Emotions override logic every single time. It's what's familiar to us, it's what our version is,

it's those beliefs that we have about ourselves because our reinterpretation of what's happened to us in our childhood.

I'm not good enough, I'm unworthy, I'm unlovable, I'm not important.

And that becomes a really deep core wound that we carry around that we're always trying to

numb out to distract ourselves away from, which is often where addictions

then will start to come into play. Welcome to trauma and narcissism redefine. This is my podcast.

Or you can have a sneaky look on YouTube as well if you want, really giving you hope and

inspiration and education around trauma, around narcissism, so that you can start to be aware of what's

happening to you, because ultimately all healing is self-healing. In today's episode, I want to talk to you

about the power of words and the difference between how I see this between abuse and trauma.

Because I think sometimes when we just keep talking about the abuse,

it's often re-traumatizing and it feels like we are totally powerless in how we feel.

So in today's episode, I'm going to explain what I think the difference is and how that can

really start to empower you to know your healing is in your hands. So let's look at the

words then of abuse versus trauma because we hear a lot about certain things like domestic abuse

and child abuse and you know that is what it is. It is abuse. But when we're only talking about it from an

abuse perspective, what we're doing is we're really talking about the abuser. Now, it's important

we do that because, of course, it's wrong, it's against the law, and we want people to take

responsibility for their own actions. But very often what happens is

as we're only talking about abuse and the other person, the spotlight comes away from you. It

suddenly becomes all about the abuser. Why are they abusing? What can we do about all of that?

And I don't know about you, but in our society very often,

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