Welcome to
CPTSD Foundation
Successfully equipping complex trauma survivors with compassionate support, skills, and trauma-informed education.
What is CPTSD?
A handy resource page on Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Join us on Mondays at 7 pm eastern for our weekly livestream.
Frequent Questions
General information on our programs and our organization.
New website experience coming soon!
We’re excited to launch a brand new homepage experience coming June 5th, Stay tuned!
Current Programs
All of our programs are trauma-informed, which means each one is developed and facilitated through the lens of understanding what survivors need to help feel supported and encouraged as they navigate every day life. No invalidation, no judgment, no shame.
You are welcome here.
Daily Recovery Support
Healing Book Club
Weekly Creative Group
Trauma-Informed Yoga
Online Safe Group
Partner Support
Daily Encouraging Text
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Call for Writers
If you enjoy writing, we want to hear from you. We are always looking for guest writers for our blog. Our writers include survivors, coaches, clinicians, authors, and thought leaders in the field of trauma recovery.
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Recent Posts
One of Humanities Greatest Fears: Rejection
It hurts to be rejected. Whether it is a friend, a coworker, or someone you just met, we hate to be rejected. When the people rejecting us are one or both parents, we, as humans, react badly, forming mental health issues within our undeveloped brains. Rejection in...
The Impact of Our Environment on Our Mental Health
The impact of the environment a person grew up in and the environment they are living in now, as adults, is often discarded. The environment has a major impact on how a child's brain will develop and on the behaviour they will display as grown-ups. This omission...
What is Enmeshment?
Enmeshment is forced upon a victim in the same way a person is brain-washed in a prison camp
High-functioning Anxiety and Why it’s Missed So Often
High-functioning anxiety can be a royal pain in the posterior. You experience the usual symptoms: Excessive worrying Sense of impending doom Exhaustion Insomnia Social withdrawal Loss of appetite Impatience, irritability, and angry outbursts A horrendous fear of...
The Spectrum of Trauma
The CPTSD foundation's website succinctly defines CPTSD as a term that "describes the results of ongoing, inescapable, relational trauma." In this post I'll delve into trauma, using a wider lens than is typical. I'll differentiate between trauma and traumatic...
How Your Self-Trust and Your Inner Critic Affect Your Life
In this series on self-trust, we have examined many different aspects of what it means. We have also covered how complex post-traumatic stress disorder affects self-trust and vice versa. This article will focus on how self-trust and how you talk to yourself changes...
What our amazing members say about our programs
My FRAMILY is amazing. You all are amazing and inspiring. I truly love all everyone on the calls and thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping me heal through this community.
The calls have catapulted me forward in my recovery in multiple ways. I now have an anchor that is reliable, consistent, encouraging, educational, safe and soul enriching. There are still tough days…but I no longer get stuck in isolation for long periods of time.
I am reassured that I’m not alone and others have similar experiences and struggles. I appreciate the validation and encouragement I receive there, which has really helped me in my healing journey. I have made new friends and have a safe place to show up on a daily basis.
The daily calls are helping me to take better care of myself and have boundaries. How to recognize safe people and unsafe people and receive encouragement and support that I do not get otherwise. They help me recognize I am not alone in my feelings and thoughts.
There is nothing else out there like this! Joining a committed, compassionate group of survivors, every single day, has been my biggest act of self-compassion.
I love the encouraging daily texts, I get one right after lunch at work every day, and some days I really need it..
The healing book club has been such a blessing. It is very meaningful and I feel that I have established true, authentic connections. It’s comforting to have a designated space each week that’s safe, normalizing, educational, and secure. Thank you for this incredible resource!
I never realized how helpful these calls could be. I’m so glad I decided to join, and take a chance on myself. I learn so much, and always feel validated when I have the opportunity to join a call.
