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Get Rid of ANXIETY with Rachelle McCloud, LCSW
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Hi👋🏽 I’m Rachelle McCloud, a Mental Health Therapist and Emotional Wellness Coach dedicated to helping you resolve symptoms of anxiety, depression, and traumatic stress. On this channel, you’ll find practical tips on personality development, mindset, self-help, and mental health. 🧠✨
🙋🏻♀️ Join me as we explore topics like:
▸ Anxiety relief and trauma recovery
▸ Healing childhood trauma and PTSD symptoms
▸ Understanding the nervous system and emotional wellness
▸ Self-help techniques including EMDR, EFT, CBT, and TFT
▸ Overcoming fear, panic, and narcissistic abuse
▸ Breaking free from self-sabotage and survival brain patterns
If you’re dealing with survival mode, traumatic neglect, or being the family scapegoat, my goal is to provide you with the tools and support you need to heal and thrive.💪
Don’t forget to LIKE 👍, COMMENT 💬, SHARE ↩️, & SUBSCRIBE to stay updated with my latest videos! Hit the 🔔 BELL icon to never miss an update.
🌐 Website: www.RachelleMcCloud.com
🙋🏻♀️ Join me as we explore topics like:
▸ Anxiety relief and trauma recovery
▸ Healing childhood trauma and PTSD symptoms
▸ Understanding the nervous system and emotional wellness
▸ Self-help techniques including EMDR, EFT, CBT, and TFT
▸ Overcoming fear, panic, and narcissistic abuse
▸ Breaking free from self-sabotage and survival brain patterns
If you’re dealing with survival mode, traumatic neglect, or being the family scapegoat, my goal is to provide you with the tools and support you need to heal and thrive.💪
Don’t forget to LIKE 👍, COMMENT 💬, SHARE ↩️, & SUBSCRIBE to stay updated with my latest videos! Hit the 🔔 BELL icon to never miss an update.
🌐 Website: www.RachelleMcCloud.com
Therapist Explains How Grief is Processed
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#Anxiety #Depression #SelfHealers #PTSD #Trauma #MentalHealth #SurvivalMode #CPTSD #FamilyScapegoat #ScapeGoat #GenerationalTrauma #AnxietyAwareness #EmotionalWellbeing #NervousSystemRegulation #Interventions
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Coming Out of Survival Mode and Into Thriving
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🙌🏽 To get access to the free training that teaches 3 of my favorite interventions, click this link: rachellemccloud.thrivecart.com/interventions-for-iwt-yt/ 💻 If you want my help to resolve your anxiety symptoms, learn more about my online course, Inner World Transformation, here: www.rachellemccloud.com/online-course 🌐 To join my email list, watch more videos, work with me 1:1 or catch a recen...
Why Processing Grief Can Make You Feel Stuck
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📌 Learn a new way to work with your brain! Sign up for my 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 program, Interventions for Inner World Transformation by clicking on this link: rachellemccloud.thrivecart.com/interventions-for-iwt-yt/ #Anxiety #Depression #SelfHealers #PTSD #Trauma #MentalHealth #SurvivalMode #CPTSD #FamilyScapegoat #ScapeGoat #GenerationalTrauma #AnxietyAwareness #EmotionalWellbeing #NervousSystemRegulation #In...
Understanding Grief & Acceptance
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📌 Click this link to access my 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 program, Interventions for Inner World Transformation: rachellemccloud.thrivecart.com/interventions-for-iwt-yt/ #Anxiety #Depression #SelfHealers #PTSD #Trauma #MentalHealth #SurvivalMode #CPTSD #FamilyScapegoat #ScapeGoat #GenerationalTrauma #AnxietyAwareness #EmotionalWellbeing #NervousSystemRegulation #Interventions
How Does Stress Hijack Your Brain and Parenting?
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When your brain shifts into survival mode, it triggers an inaccessible state for knowledge, skill, and choice. In moments of perceived danger, the brain diverts energy from higher-level thinking centers-the prefrontal cortex-to activate primitive regions responsible for survival. This means all the information from parenting books, courses, and experiences becomes practically useless in surviva...
How to Stop Taking Things Personally
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🙌🏽 To get access to the free training that teaches 3 of my favorite interventions, click this link: rachellemccloud.thrivecart.com/interventions-for-iwt-yt/ 💻 If you want my help to resolve your anxiety symptoms, learn more about my online course, Inner World Transformation, here: www.rachellemccloud.com/online-course 🌐 To join my email list, watch more videos, work with me 1:1 or catch a recen...
Resolving Insomnia Anxiety, Depression and Trauma Recovery
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🙌🏽 To get access to the free training that teaches 3 of my favorite interventions, click this link: rachellemccloud.thrivecart.com/interventions-for-iwt-yt/ 💻 If you want my help to resolve your anxiety symptoms, learn more about my online course, Inner World Transformation, here: www.rachellemccloud.com/online-course 🌐 To join my email list, watch more videos, work with me 1:1 or catch a recen...
How to Overcome Anxiety, Depression, and Trauma Disorders
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To get access to the free training that teaches 3 of my favorite interventions, click this link: rachellemccloud.thrivecart.com/interventions-for-iwt-yt/ 💻 If you want my help to resolve your anxiety symptoms, learn more about my online course, Inner World Transformation, here: www.rachellemccloud.com/online-course 🌐 To join my email list, watch more videos, work with me 1:1 or catch a recent p...
Building Healing Momentum: Overcoming Anxiety, Depression, and Trauma and Building Lasting Wellness
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Building Healing Momentum: Overcoming Anxiety, Depression, and Trauma and Building Lasting Wellness
Grief: The Most Common Root of Depression
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Grief: The Most Common Root of Depression
Parenting with Complex PTSD: Co-regulation Challenges
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Parenting with Complex PTSD: Co-regulation Challenges
Can You Overcome Anxiety, Depression and Traumatic Stress on Your Own
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Can You Overcome Anxiety, Depression and Traumatic Stress on Your Own
Why Tayla Doesn't Feel as Crazy as She Used to ✦ Overcoming Anxiety and Depression
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Why Tayla Doesn't Feel as Crazy as She Used to ✦ Overcoming Anxiety and Depression
4 Bad Habits That are Actually Great Brain Work ✦ Overcoming Anxiety Depression and Traumatic Stress
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4 Bad Habits That are Actually Great Brain Work ✦ Overcoming Anxiety Depression and Traumatic Stress
Healthy Boundaries - It’s a Brain Thing! ✦ Anxiety, Depression and PTSD Recovery
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Healthy Boundaries - It’s a Brain Thing! ✦ Anxiety, Depression and PTSD Recovery
Overcoming Erectile Dysfunction and Performance Anxiety When the Root Issue is Childhood Trauma
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Overcoming Erectile Dysfunction and Performance Anxiety When the Root Issue is Childhood Trauma
Don’t Fall for the Narcissistic Question
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Don’t Fall for the Narcissistic Question
Can You Trust Your Brain?: Complex Trauma & Anxiety Recovery
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Can You Trust Your Brain?: Complex Trauma & Anxiety Recovery
Wanting Others to Hurt as Bad as You Do: Complex Trauma & Anxiety Recovery
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Wanting Others to Hurt as Bad as You Do: Complex Trauma & Anxiety Recovery
Positive Childhood Memories Only: Complex Trauma & Anxiety Recovery
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Positive Childhood Memories Only: Complex Trauma & Anxiety Recovery
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Only Have Negative Childhood Memories: Complex Trauma & Anxiety Recovery
Can’t Remember Your Childhood: Complex Trauma & Anxiety Recovery
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Can’t Remember Your Childhood: Complex Trauma & Anxiety Recovery
3 Signs of Healing from Complex Trauma and Anxiety Recovery ✨ Rachelle McCloud, LCSW
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3 Signs of Healing from Complex Trauma and Anxiety Recovery ✨ Rachelle McCloud, LCSW
Perfection NOT Required: Complex Trauma & Anxiety Recovery
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Perfection NOT Required: Complex Trauma & Anxiety Recovery
You Don't Have to Be Smarter Than Your Brain: Complex Trauma & Anxiety Recovery
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You Don't Have to Be Smarter Than Your Brain: Complex Trauma & Anxiety Recovery
When You Are F*King Up Your Child with Your Anxiety, Depression and Trauma, Do This 1 Thing
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When You Are F*King Up Your Child with Your Anxiety, Depression and Trauma, Do This 1 Thing
Modern dating and feminism has destroyed love and relationships
Hello, you mentioned four bad habits; which four are they? Why do I only see three?
Do u know anyone that does what u so in spanish?
This makes sense. People do not understand that panic attack = emotional flashback and we need to snap back from Regression back to our adult body. CBT gives us wrong information by defining panic attack as imaginary and irrational - but this is trauma and we heal trauma only by NOT abusing ourselves. CBT is instructing us to abuse ourselves when it says that our triggers which triggered panic attack are irrelevant and in all cases - triggers are outside of our control - they are real : like Gaza, Ukraine, narcissistic abuse.
Thank you for spreading information on the problem of nervous system dysregulation. I would value it if you demonstrate or teach healing techniques in your videos rather than only talking about your programs. I would also enjoy it more if you looked into the camera in your videos. Hope the feedback is taken in the spirit it is intended- to help your healing efforts reach more people so humanity can heal from one of its greatest problems.✌🏽💚
You are very welcome. Thank you for taking the time to leave this comment. I appreciate you.
It’s so good to hear you mention that grief can exist even when a parent is still alive. This was my experience, and I have felt very invalidated in the past when conversations of grief and loss have come up. Parent loss on any level is incredibly painful, but I didn’t even know I had the right to feel grief growing up! I’m grateful that I have compassion for myself that I didn’t have before. I have been processing a lot of sadness and grief in the last few months. I find that my creative energy and energy to be physically active is coming up because of this. This work is incredibly validating ❤️
So rebuilding like the movie inside out 🤔. Thank you!
@@Keys31880 pretty much! You’re welcome!
hi 🙋🏼♀️ always more insight available - thank you for your phenomenal way of bringing these concepts to my awareness 🩵
@@BeckyVigliotti You are so welcome!
4:20pm 10/14/24 🙋🏼♀️🩵perfect explanation @ the perfect moment becky
@@BeckyVigliotti Oh, Good! 🙏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
This is true, also the opposite is true, you may be trying to avoid doing what was said to you. The emotion and then the memory are valid, the action will be very different. Still triggering though.
hi 🙋🏼♀️ nice to see you 🦋
Hey, you! It's so good to see you here too! ❤️
Thank you 🙏🏻 I’ve been trying to articulate this for years you have taught me so much just by listening to this one video, I’m so excited to watch and listen more ❤ thank you Again
@@Bluesoulace You are so welcome. 🙏🏽 Please let me know what questions or even comments come up for you. I appreciate you taking the time to comment. ❤️
Makes a lot of sense now how my brain keeps getting in the way sometimes.. I'm in the process of healing this blackhole by myself, I believe. For most of it, I didnt have a clue what was going on and only found out by watching videos like this afterward that confirm my theories and explain what I have experienced. Most of my healing is rooted in spirituality, meaning meditation, yoga, and physical exercises that help release trauma stuck in my body. Lastly, it was safe for me to do this by myself, but if I can give one advice.. Do your best to listen to your body. I made the mistake of pushing myself too hard a couple of times and it was too much to deal with in those instances.
One more thing, when it got rough, I did ask for support from my old therapist.. So i would recommend that even if you decide to do it alone, make sure you have someone you can turn to if needed
@@long-style excellent advice. Thanks for sharing.
@@long-style - I love that you had theories. It sounds like you’ve been a student of yourself as well as a supporter of yourself. I think that is a powerful combination. And yes, pushing oneself too far can create painful setbacks and unmanageable distress. And we want to listen to the body, stay in tune and provide support for the work it is doing to process and heal things like the black hole.
@@rachellemccloudlcsw 🙏🙏
@@long-style Absolutely. 🙏🏽❤️
I will keep saying this, because it really comes from the bottom of my heart, that I hope your channel starts getting the views soon! all in divine timing of course.. But I've been trying to understand myself (and people around me) and my "traumas and lacks" for quite some time now, and the way you explain these topics, even though it indeed seems like you're all over the place sometimes haha, is very very easy to understand. Keep up the good work!!
What a great comment! I appreciate it! I am all over the place and I LOVE that you still find it benefits and easy to understand. 😂❤️✨
Sorry I see your info below.
Good. ❤️
I need to work with you. I’m 55yy. My 34yy Son, passively took his life 4 months ago after battling with alcohol addiction, high levels of anxiety and depression in my own home.😢😢 A Great Great Soul. Now my 26yy Son’s mental health has restarted to decline and he self medicates on marijuana. It’s a lot a lot. I live with the results of childhood trauma, and felt and FEEL paralyzed when it comes and came to getting help for us. I literally lost my SUN… right before my eyes…Frozen in fear and denial. My heart is beyond pain. I need to heal. My only surviving Sun needs to heal too. How can I reach you? For 1:1.
I’m so sorry for your loss and all that you’ve lost due to childhood trauma. Now is a good time to heal.
More videos on boundaries. Would love more workable info on that. Thanks Rachel 🪷
@@ThroughtheAbyss14 - great Idea. I’ll see what I can cook up. I have an idea that might be ready to go for tomorrow. We’ll see, but I’ll share the link here when I make another boundary video. May I ask (for research purposes) : what makes you want more info on boundaries and more workable info?
@@rachellemccloudlcsw I say workable info because I noticed I am constantly trying to uphold a boundary from a conscious place and it gets exhausting. I remember you saying, when the boundaries are up and running correctly they run from the subconscious brain. So I wanted to know about how to make it a part of our subconscious brain, how to make that shift happen…
@@ThroughtheAbyss14 - Yes. That shift from the conscious to the subconscious is important. I made a video about this yesterday. Here is the link: How Brains Make Healthy Boundaries ruclips.net/video/2auELWCjdt0/видео.html I’d love to hear your thoughts and if this brought up more questions you have.
@@rachellemccloudlcsw sure, I’llcheck that out. I was also wondering if diet plays an important role in recovery. Like what can I eat to support my brain better?
Thx so much for this...
@@linzlu7051 - You are very welcome.
❤️ could you make a video on social anxiety? Just seeing people makes me dysregulated.
I have emailed you.Kindly chack it.
Thank you so much rachelle
@@hazelkitty27 - You are so welcome. 🙏🏽
i am 67 i have lived my entire life like that
@@lewishenderson7004 - it’s never to late to heal and start creating healthy boundaries.
Great video! Except ptsd I also got burnout and social anxiety, would the online program help me cover these aspects aswell?
@@fixme7230 Thank you! And yes, the online programs help you overcome these challenges too.
I’ve seen multiple therapist but none of them really helped. How can I help myself to get out of survival mode.
@@yllwhrn - The answer is to shift your brain brain out of survival move as often as you need in order to help it heal, rewire and establish new ways of being so you can thrive. I have a free program teaching a new way of supporting your brain to shout out of survival mode and into healing more. You can find that here: rachellemccloud.thrivecart.com/interventions-for-iwt-yt/ I have a step by step process for this that I have made available on my website here: rachellemccloud.com/online-course ❤️
I’m 40 years old & so tired all the time. The pain I feel in my body & how I can’t function properly holding a job. I got diagnosed with CPTSD 2 years old & im just finally understanding it! I feel so helpless all the time
@@yllwhrn I’m sorry. That fatigue and helpless feeling can be so consuming. It definitely helps to understand it and it is so empowering to help your brain finally resolve these issues and get you up and thriving.
I already know whats going on, its how to stop it that no therapist can answer. How do we get rid of it? And how do we heal.. this is just letting people know whats going on and it makes me anxious this is why going to therapy is hard. Im already aware I just need the tools. "I know the job, just need the training" and therapist need to learn how to treat AWARE patients. My therapist literally derailed from our goal because she saw how aware i was (meaning not doing as much work as we should be doing) my appointments were mainly gossip ones.. 🙃 everytime I left? I was still in survival mode.. their only solution? Medication... my best advice is to go see a Riki therapist that will move the energy out of your body so your body will heal. Do not and after 20 years of therapy, take any meds to quiet the mind.. once the therapist sees the meds are not working? Aka numbing your mind? They up the dose or adjust it or add more. Your body needs to feel those emotions if not? Those feelings will be suppressed and you will never heal. This is also why 20 years later? Im not better the meds.. im just now learning somatic therapy and how to feel my feelings instead of drawing them or coloring them..
As a child I was a victim of pediatric overdose.. so please listen when i say no, dont do it. They also prescribed me PAXIL which was not FDA approved at the time and starting shutting down my kidneys.. please listen because its your life that depends on it. And the most heartless thing a therapist can do? Prescribe medication that can actually kll your patients and you collect the money anyways whether that patient is ded or alive..
This is such a real problem. Awareness does not = or result in healing and the quicker we can get someone tools and training the better. I have a saying that an ounce of brain work is worth a pound of theorizing. I also do not agree that you have to feel your feelings or that the body needs to feel the feelings. We need to process the feelings. There are many feelings that people cannot feel and if that were required many would be left without a healing option. Once we get the brain processing, the issues and unresolved trauma and distress will begin resolving. Later as there is more healing and resolution, more feeling naturally becomes available. That is decided upon the mind-body and not any therapist or person. Have you tried my free program, Interventions for Inner World Transformation? That is where I share my 3 favorite interventions for this kind of work and way of support the brain to process. If you are interested, here is the link to enroll: rachellemccloud.thrivecart.com/interventions-for-iwt-yt/
Rachel the audio is low on videos. Consider doing something about it. My brain is getting frustrated trying to overtly focus on things 😂
@@ThroughtheAbyss14 I so apologize for that. I have since corrected the audio issue, thanks to comments like yours. The newer videos and older videos have better audio. Thank you for hanging with me through this! I appreciate your feedback.
Thank you ❤.
@@loverainthunder you are very welcome. 🙏🏽❤️
I have a couple questions...I've researched, or at least tried to research twins. I am a fraternal twin, and my twin is a girl. She was very outgoing, and I was painfully shy. She had many friends, and I didn't get friends until my later years in high school. I was bullied incessantly because during middle school, I was ugly (extremely crooked teeth, glasses that were too big for my face, and short hair that did not in any way flatter me) and I walked with a limp, often times being called, "cripple" I was more of a sounding board for my mother and her problems, than she was for me. Father wasn't emotionally available, for any of us. Ever since 2005, I have been disconnected from my toxic family where substance abuse was rampant. Whenever I was home, I tried to blend into the background hoping to not be noticed, I would isolate myself in my room with my radio. During our younger years, my sister would get invited over to people's houses I would come with and vice versa. My sister would get in trouble and to prevent me from making the same mistake our mother would punish me too. I met a young woman in 2005, whom I felt a spiritual wholeness filling a vacancy that I wasn't aware that I had within me. Would the vacancy be caused by being a twin? This isn't really a question, I now realize as I have been floundering around for many years during my life, because of my never having felt safe, responding by running. I am now locked into a housing contract where I was elected for a position that requires responsibility and working with others. I am now unable to run. I have gotten extremely anxious and slipped into a bit of a depression. I'm going to prove to myself that I can do it, however dealing with the anxiety is extremely difficult.
Fuck yeah
@@Zimy5489 🙌🏽🤘🏽
I have just watched half of the vdo and I have no words to how to thank you. ❤
@@APOORVA221 - Awwwww! You are so welcome! Thank you for taking the time to share this comment. ❤️
I’ve been in survival mode all my life, so I worked hard and saved money and then something happened and now it’s all draining. I also have charges against me. It’s just a minor felony charge but I can’t relax because of it. My entire life I wondered if I could ever live in peace.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I feel for you what you are sharing, I can only imagine how deeply triggering and insecurity all of that is for you. And it is possible to live in peace, even with what you are experiencing, but your brain has to create that for you and it would need specific support to shift out of survival mode and into healing, thriving and creation mode. The interventions I share in my free program are helpful for helping the brain create this shift. Have you tried these yet? Here is the link if you’d like to try them: rachellemccloud.thrivecart.com/interventions-for-iwt-yt/
I always feel such intense friction inside me when i try to supress these "bad" habits, so it makes so much sense that they are healthy processes that needs to run their course. You really put things in a new light.
That is interesting that you have felt this way. You are in-tune! Instead of needing to run their course, at this point in our development, these processes need to be supported so that the brain can work on maturing and mastering these processes and making them functional and constructive. Thank you for commenting and sharing your experience. I appreciate you.
I've been reflecting on my experiences and how they have impacted me. I have ADHD, OCD, and PTSD, and grew up with a bipolar, schizophrenic father and an abusive stepmother. It has been suggested to me that I essentially took on a parental role with my father, and now, at 33 and with children of my own, I'm feeling the repercussions of that dynamic. I want to prioritize setting healthy boundaries for myself in order to ensure my mental well-being for the sake of my children. Although I understand and implement boundaries in other aspects of my life, I struggle to do the same for myself. I recognize that I need to learn to say no and protect my own well-being. How can I simplify the concept of boundaries and make them a more integral part of my life for the benefit of myself and my children?
@@laineypratt8566 - great question and what you are describing is very common. I talk more in depth about boundaries in this video :Healthy Boundaries - It’s a Brain Thing! ✦ Anxiety, Depression and PTSD Recovery ruclips.net/video/vA8vdTsKoEQ/видео.html Have you watched that already? There is a process for supporting brains to get you boundaries up and running with your father now. I have a program for all of that and you can find out more about that here: www.rachellemccloud.com/online-course If you have more questions ask away. Wishing you the best. Rachelle
You are truly the best. So grateful for your beautiful, genuine soul and your profound wisdom. Thank you so much🙏🏾
@@Charay27 Awwww! Thank you. You are so welcome!
Thanks for making this video!! I sent it to my family. Whole families and whole communities And everyone just needs this type of health. ❤
You are very welcome. 🙏🏽 Thank you for sharing this video. I appreciate it. ❤️
Thank you so much .. really appreciate this video..
@@KugewaBami-or5vx You are very welcome! 🙏🏽
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing this
@@carmenc33777 you are so welcome.
I very much liked how you handled this sensitive video. Your demeanor is wonderful for a topic like this. Well done! However, may I ask you to do all men a favor by not calling it a "dysfunction". Very few of us fall into the category of "dysfunction". It is more of a variance in ability that is multi-factorial. Erectile variance is FAR more accurate and sensitive and you will likely gain a broader audience, especially as a female working in this field. As you may know, only about 10% of men with these issues ever seek help. Fewer still seek intimate care like this from females. So, female providers may only be seeing approx 5% of those with issues. We cou;d make it easier to talk about, by using terms that are not marketing speech that was designed to shame or scare men into taking action such as trying meds. Doing this may tend to make men more at ease when considering asking for help. Anything that starts out with humiliating/emasculating terms like "Erectile Dysfunction" will only have the effect of more men continuing to not ever seek treatment. And yes, men and women can have performance anxiety, but it is plainly obvious for all the world to see when it happens to a man. Lube and a little "fake it til you make it" can be an option for females. Not so for men.
What great feedback. Thank you. I haven't heard the term Erectile Variance and I think that is a great and sensitive term. And your comment on performance anxiety is powerful. Thank you. Thank you for sharing.
@@rachellemccloudlcsw It is a term I have used (and I wish the medical community would use it) as it is one I can digest or maybe even talk about. This is opposed to the word "Dysfunction" which sounds disparaging, negative, and daunting. And who would ever want to talk about what men see as a weakness/lack of masculinity, virility...the things we all measure men by but never admit. It's cultural and is part of the human condition, but if we ever hope to give more men social permission to seek treatment (not just the 10% with these issues), we are going to have to use terms that are at least neutral and realistic and not negative or emasculating.
I love this. I think you are providing such a unique and functional perspective and direction. My brain has been playing with this term since you shared it. I know I will be offering the term to others and bringing it into the discussion.
@@rachellemccloudlcsw I think and hope you will have a good result by substituting this term. If it only raises the amount of men that seek treatment for this sort of thing from 10% to 13 or 15%. It’s good for everybody. It’s good for men. It’s good for the medical profession. It’s good for families.
I am so interested in your teachings.
Wonderful! Have you enrolled in my free program, Interventions for Inner World Transformation? If not here's the link: rachellemccloud.thrivecart.com/interventions-for-iwt-yt/ I hope you'll enroll and tell me what you think.
This is one of the absolute best videos I've heard on the topic. It also comes with a fresh perspective instead of the usual regurgitation.
Thank you. This feedback means a lot to me. I appreciate it. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
@rachellemccloudlcsw Great video. Do you have any advice for those of us who have an anxiety response to trying to relax?
@@Touay. Yes, I do. Here is a blog I wrote about that: rachellemccloud.com/blog/f/cant-stop-moving-and-cant-relax---stay-busy
I’d love to hear what you think about that.
@@rachellemccloudlcsw Hi. thanks for the quick reply. While I absolutely have what you describe in that post, the "need" to keep busy to avoid having to face ongoing stressors or having to deal with unresolved issues (for which for post may be helpful), there is something else also. I think what I am asking about is not a fear of dealing with the issues I carry now, it is a learned survival 'skill' from my childhood that I believe makes perfect sense logically - it is a survival adaptation. In addition to emotional and physical neglect throughout my childhood, there was a period where I was frequently physically punished - to the point that I was afraid all the time. This led me to be hypervigilant - constantly alert to what I am doing, saying, the emotions I am expressing ... constantly alert to the mood of my mother and step-father ... My body learn that the only way to be safe was to maintain the constantly alert state so that I didn't make any mistake that wold result in painful physical punishment. The issue I have now is that any attempt to relax is seen by my body as an immediate physical threat ... I can only be safe if I am ALWAYS alert. This manifests as;- 1. An anxiety response. My therapist, in preparation for an IFS session asked my to get myself relaxed, and my body responded with a strong anxiety response. 2. If i ever try to meditate or otherwise calm myself, I become very dizzy. not a vertigo type dizzy, it is more like the feeling that my head is shaking side to side as a 'no'. but my head is not moving. I have had this all my life. there is some subconscious 'thing' that doesn't want me to drop the hypervigilant state. I have seen other videos of yours that describe the required downregulation for us to feel calm - but not only can I not do this as I will then have to deal with the painful thoughts that come up, but there is this more 'survival' aspect that would stop me getting anywhere near a 'relaxed' state. I hope I have explained that ok! (and thanks for taking the time to read this!)
oh shit. the most common root issue. yeah, that's my history hahaha. domestic violence. I didn't really have a mom but my father was a very angry man with an insecure masculinity, he was very triggered by femininity such as me identifying as a woman or gays acting womanly or women acting "slobbish", there was just a general energy in the home that was very very controlling and hostile to femininity and grace and therefore there was never any peace. The big problem with me is that I am everything my father is not, so it affected me the most and he hated me the most and he physically hurt me the most because everything about me was so intolerable for him. My father is quick to tell people they're wrong and slow to reflect but I am the opposite. He is avoidant of emotions and doesn't like to introspect but I am the opposite. He responds with violence but I am overwhelmed by it. He is always a coward but I am sometimes brave. He has no talent but I have light. He likes to stew on things but I am desperate to move forward. He likes to hoard things but I do not wish to be burdened. He doesn't like to clean but I need my mind as clear as my space. Etc etc. I did see him physically abuse my step mother but she was such a narcissist that she had it coming, same with my sister, but even though they totally had it coming, the particular incidents were undeserving. They were bad women but whenever he was physically abusing them it came as a shock because they had done nothing wrong whatsoever, my father simply hated that my sister was growing as a young woman and becoming her own person whenever she got back from hanging out with her friends and he perceived this as insolent or arrogant or disobedient or ungrateful. It frightened me, but he actually abused me the most because he had a weird conflict of emotions dealing with me believing myself to be a girl, he threw misogynistic gender expectations at me as well as toxic male expectations at me so that I was stuck in and never able to do the right thing and was always in trouble more than anyone else, the whole family just declared me the big drain or drag or enemy of the family. So my trauma isn't exactly the same as watching women of my family get beat but the general hostility to femininity feels very relevant, im just finding ways to connect these dots to my own issues.
The awareness and emotions you are expressing indicate to me that you are lined up for some powerful healing. It's now just about getting this processed. Do you have a plan for this yet? Whether you do or not, I want to invite you to trial some of my favorite interventions for this healing work. I'll share the link at the end of this to my free Interventions for Inner World Transformation program. To resolve the issues you are sharing will take more skill than what I'm sharing in the free program, however this will give you a taste of the kind of work your brain can do for you as far as processing. You can play with these interventions, support processing with these basic skills until you are ready for whatever next steps you feel called to take. here's the link: rachellemccloud.thrivecart.com/interventions-for-iwt-yt/
I'm almost done with the video and I love you. The part of my brain that is stopping the healing doesn't care about words, doesn't do words, and hearing I can heal without talking about my trauma shocked me. I'm so glad because I am getting really tired of words so I'm glad I don't have to deal with them. I'm so glad I'm hearing how autonomous this system is. I'm often forcing myself to get what I want such as going to work and making money and trying to sexually perform, but it makes so much sense and I'm so glad that you said if I help my brain get what it wants then it can help me get what I want, It's such a great way to phrase it that way because my trauma has largely been abuse and so helping others get what they want is something i've had to spend too much time doing so thinking of my brain as a person I'm supposed to please and help it get what it wants really clicks some neurons together maybe. My brain doesn't care about my erectile dysfunction, it doesn't care about my body issues, these are issues i'm concerned with but my brain cares about it's own things, that makes so much sense you're so fulfilling a good purpose for people like you're doing real work and not just a job.
Yes! and Thank you. I love the love!!! ❤️
thank you so much, I don't identify as a man but I am male and I don't have ED but I do have penile/sexual dysfunction where it's just not working how I want it to be and the first 4 minutes made so much sense for me. I also have gut issues where it's just not working how I want it to be and I'm having weird cardiovascular changes where my body just feels different to be in now after developing PTSD and I notice new veins that are very blue in my arms where things are just different, numbness as well and getting light headed at different things than I normally would, just feels like I got switched to a new body that works differently and I hate it.
Thank you for sharing your experiences. And yes, trauma impacts our body and a lot of times that somatic and physical distress are the actual traumatic experiences the body is trying to process and isn't having success. A lot of times, when we process that trauma, the body feels so much better and starts to shift into healing and resolving those issues as well. I may make a video on this soon.
I was so close to healing... all of my anger came up but instead of processing it in a healthy way, I lashed out at loved ones and lost everything. Now I am numb, health is failing, spiraling in the guilt and shame. I lost everyone I cared about. How can I believe there's hope at this point? 🥺😭
There is a lot of hope. The path to healing is not linear and some of our greatest mistakes become some of our greatest lessons when we get them and all of the pain and shame and spirals processed. If we don’t get them processed. They become our greatest points of suffering. One of my inspirations is: if you find yourself in hell, don’t stop and sit down keep going so you come out of it on the other side. This is very true for posttraumatic stress like this. It can be hell and it resolves, keep going, but you’ll need to support your brain to do this healing work. This kind of pain shuts healing down. I would love for you to try my favorite interventions for this work if you haven’t already. I share them in my free program Interventions for Inner World Transformation. Here is the link: rachellemccloud.thrivecart.com/interventions-for-iwt-yt/
You are amazing you are helping me so much thank you so mucb
You are so welcome and thank you 🙏🏽
Wow wow thank you so so much you broke this down so pefectlyn
Oh! yay! I’m glad you liked this break down. I had so much fun making this video. It was a nerd heaven highlight moment.
Hi there, Thankyou for the video. Ive been struggling with flashbacks for years. Im just confused about the steps on how to stop them, am I missing something in the video by chance? Thanks for your time 🩵🙏
Will you be a bit more specific? I would love to help, but I'm not so certain I understand what piece you may be missing. Flashbacks resolve with a pretty simple process (not that it's always easy to implement).
thankyou for your reply, The way you explained how flashbacks work and why they happen was very enlightening and when you explained what parts of our brain need to get on the same page. but I think I missed the whole process on how to stop them and might need to rewatch the video. Are the steps for the process in the video? or is the process the interventions on your site? thanks 🙏
would you be able to provide a time stamp to where you explain the process? That would be really helpful! thankyou again
@@amberhartley4164 - The process is definitely in my program. Part 1 is a helpful strategy that is foundational, but the process for resolving flashbacks in part 2. However in this video, which I made a year or 2 ago, I would have given an overview.
I really hope your videos start getting more views, because they are very helpful in me understanding myself and how to proceed with healing.. Also very simple explanations and not too deep or too much lingo which most people won't understand and/or need
Thank you so much for these beautiful compliments. 🙏🏽 I’m glad you are finding my videos to be so helpful. ❤️