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Harmony Dust✨Trauma Healing

@iamharmonydust

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Trauma healing for survivors & allies 🤍
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28 yrs serving survivors | Founder 💎 @iam.a.treasure

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3 months ago

It’s the 23-year anniversary of Treasures.

The truth is, I’m not even sure of the exact date.

In the early summer of 2003, I found myself sitting outside a club where I had once been expl0ited and wrote postcards to the women inside.

I wasn’t trying to start an organization.

I certainly didn’t realize I would be part of pioneering a movement.

I simply wanted women to know they weren’t alone.

Twenty-three years later, I am overwhelmed with gratitude for every woman, volunteer, donor, staff member, mentor, advocate, and survivor who has been part of this story.

Ps. We also didn’t have iPhones when I started Treasures so unfortunately I don’t have a lot of photos of the early days. I did my best to capture the essence of the story with the photos I have lol 🤗

#survivorstory #nonprofitleadership #supportsurvivors #harmonydust #womenempowerment by @iamharmonydust

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4 months ago

Sometimes nervous system activation doesn’t look like panic attacks or emotional breakdowns.

Sometimes it looks like gripping the steering wheel too tight.
Getting startled easily.
Holding tension in your shoulders all day without realizing it.

Healing often starts by noticing what the body has been trying to say all along.

That’s why somatic healing is so powerful. It teaches us to reconnect with our bodies and find ways to return to the deactivated state of “safe and social”

if you are looking for tools, I recently created a 7-day plan called Embodied. Each day includes an audio meditation designs to help you reconnect with your body.

✨Link in bio✨

#SomaticHealing #Embodied #Embodiment #somaticexperiencing #meditation by @iamharmonydust

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5 months ago

Shutdown is a survival response. Our bodies learned it to keep us safe, and sometimes it keeps showing up long after the danger is gone. If this is you this weekend, be gentle with yourself. Healing looks like a lot of things, and some days it looks exactly like this. 🤍

looking for more nervous system support? Comment or DM reset and I’ll send you my free guide

#traumaSurvivors #ShutDown #Freeze #collapse #traumahealing by @iamharmonydust

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4 days ago

ou know it’s bad when you start having arguments with AI!

The amount of debacles I have found myself in thanks to inaccurate information are embarrassing!

This is why I broke up with chat, and Claude is my new boyfriend

#ChatGPT #PeanutButter #PeanutButterAllergy #AIGetsItWrong #factcheck by @iamharmonydust

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4 days ago

Effective immediately, I am resigning from being Type A.

But for real tho… For so many of us, being hyper-responsible started as a way to feel safe. If I stay on top of everything, if I never drop the ball, if I’m always prepared… maybe nothing bad will happen.

That kind of vigilance helped us survive. But living on high alert every day takes a toll on our bodies and our nervous systems.

Learning to rest is a part of healing work too🤍

If you’re tired of always being “on,” comment or DM RESET and I’ll send you my free Nervous System Reset Guide, with simple tools to help your body feel safe enough to slow down.

Tell me in the comments: what’s the one “Type A” thing you’d quit first?

#TypeA #NervousSystemRegulation #TraumaHealing #somatichealing #typeapersonality by @iamharmonydust

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5 days ago

When I was a teenager living in a group home, one of the peer counselors told me he was going to be the first Black president.

Spoiler: it wasn’t Obama 😂 (I wish!)

But I’ve never forgotten that moment. Here was someone who came from the same neighborhood as me, and he still believed his life could be big. Something clicked for me. I realized education could be my life raft.

So I held on tight.

I became the first woman in my family to graduate high school. Then Community college. Straight A’s. Transferred to UCLA and graduated magna cum laude. Got my MSW. Years later, UCLA named me Alumna of the Year.

That girl in the group home would never have believed it.

Sometimes all it takes is one person dreaming out loud to help you believe you can too.

And you may never know when your words will become a seed planted in someone else’s life.

#FosterYouth #cyclebreaker #CommunityCollege #UCLAAlumni #SurvivorStory by @iamharmonydust

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8 days ago

My 8-year-old has clearly been taking notes. he improvise a lot of this, and some of the scenes were entirely his idea! The paper plate was all him!

This mama is in full blown menopause tho. So he’s been dealing with this most of his life lol

Send this to the perimenopausal mom in yourtion life (or drop it in the group chat) by @iamharmonydust

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11 days ago

Survivor here. When stories like the Cornell case are everywhere, it can be incredibly reactivating.

The tight chest. The scrolling at midnight. The exhaustion that doesn’t make sense. Years of healing, and my body still remembers.

Here’s what I’ve learned: you can’t think your way out of reactivation. You have to help your body feel safe again. Small things count. A walk. A deep exhale. Feet on the floor.

Be gentle with yourself this week. 🤍

Comment RESET and I’ll send you my free Nervous System Reset guide.

#NervousSystemRegulation #TraumaHealing #SurvivorSupport #SelfRegulation #HealingJourney by @iamharmonydust

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14 days ago

Your nervous system may still be acting like you’re in danger—even when you’re finally safe. ❤️‍🩹

If you’ve lived through chronic stress, trauma, or an unhealthy relationship, your body can get used to operating in survival mode.

These 4 tiny practices can help send signals of safety to your nervous system and remind your body that it doesn’t have to stay on high alert all the time.

Small signals. Repeated often. That’s where change can begin. ❤️

Comment RESET and I’ll send you my FREE Simple Nervous System Reset Guide with practical tools you can use when your body feels stressed, overwhelmed, or stuck in survival mode.

Save this for the next time your nervous system needs a little extra support.

#NervousSystemRegulation #TraumaHealing #SurvivalMode #SomaticHealing #TraumaRecovery by @iamharmonydust

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a month ago

Unless you’ve been through it, it’s hard to understand why people stay in abusive relationships.

Intermittent reinforcement is one of the factors present in a a trauma bond. It’s part of what makes slot machines so addictive… and leaving so hard. It keeps you reaching for the next good moment.

If this resonates, comment THRIVE and I will send you my trauma recovery workbook. ❤️‍🩹

#traumabond #intermittentreinforcement #traumahealing #traumarecovery #healingfromabuse by @iamharmonydust

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22 days ago

When I was just a kid, my mom left my brother and me in Venice with $20 and a book of food stamps. Three months. No adults. I learned to ste*l just so we could eat. And in that desperation, I became vulnerable to someone older who seemed to ‘take care of us.’ He would buy me a cheeseburger without the meat at Burger King, and I thought I was being provided for. Now I see—it wasn’t kindness. It was grooming. He had ulterior motives. That’s how expl0itation begins—not with chains, but with hunger, loneliness, and false promises of care.

I share my story to shed light on the reality of grooming and expl0itation—and the resilience of survivors. 💎

PS. My memoir, Scars and Stilettos is available Ama Zon and Audi ble 📕

#storytime #TraumaHealing
#HealingJourney
#SurvivorStory
#ExploitationAwareness
#bornxraised taken in Venice by @iamharmonydust

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a year ago