Week 4 of the series Glory Days in the Mind: When Escaping Inside Keeps You From Living. Quick answer: When years of daydreaming or rumination leave real life feeling flat or unreal, the way back is not to fight your mind but to return, gently and often, to the present. […]
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Week 3 of the series Glory Days in the Mind: When Escaping Inside Keeps You From Living. A gentle note: this post touches on sexual abuse. Please read at your own pace, and see the support details below. Quick answer: If your daydreams are always about being someone better (braver, […]
Quick answer: As children, we make sense of pain by reaching conclusions about ourselves, such as “I’m behind,” “I don’t belong,” or “I’m not enough.” Those conclusions often stay with us into adulthood, and a present-day rejection can trigger the same old feelings. Hagar’s story in Genesis 16 shows that […]
Quick answer: Maladaptive daydreaming is a compulsive retreat into vivid inner worlds for hours at a time, often to escape loneliness or pain, until real life starts to suffer. Underneath it usually sits a belief: the real me isn’t enough to be loved. Fighting the daydream rarely works. Naming that […]