From Survival to Overflow

Coach Janet believes that the challenges of our past and the present necessities of life can keep us in survival mode. So, we have to be intentional about moving past surviving into thriving. She picked up messages about her value and worth that made it difficult for us to accept herself as she is. As a survivor of childhood trauma, including abandonment, emotional abuse, and sexual abuse and assault, the message she internalized from that early developmental trauma was that it was not okay to be herself because she was “unacceptable” and “bad.” The overwhelming inner-critic that developed produced unrealistic self-expectations, false responsibility, and overwork. That same inner-critic convinced her to hide herself. Since it took most of her mental, emotional, and physical energy just to get through each day, she didn’t have much energy left to focus on who she really was and how to bring more of herself to her everyday life, interactions, and experiences. She was in survival mode. But... To Coach Janet, thriving means being WHO God created us to be and letting everything else flow out of that. That is living in Overflow.