Welcome to
CPTSD Foundation
Successfully equipping complex trauma survivors and practitioners with compassionate support, skills, and trauma-informed education.
Everyday Application
Trauma-informed information that can be used in your daily healing.
Professional Leadership
Programs and resources are overseen by trauma-informed personnel.
Survivors & Practitioners
Programs designed for both survivors & helping professionals.
What is Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD)?
“Complex PTSD comes in response to chronic traumatization over the course of months or, more often, years. This can include emotional, physical, and/or sexual abuses, domestic violence, living in a war zone, being held captive, human trafficking, and other organized rings of abuse, and more. While there are exceptional circumstances where adults develop C-PTSD, it is most often seen in those whose trauma occurred in childhood”. Learn More…
Not Sure Where to Begin? Start Here!
Our website has a large volume of content, and trying to figure out where to begin can sometimes feel overwhelming. Finding exactly what you need should be as simple as possible, so we’ve created a Start Here page that highlights some of the most searched for programs and resources on our site. Of course, you can always contact us anytime for help! Our goal is to provide you the very best programs & resources for your individual journey.
CPTSD Resources & Programs
All of our programs are trauma-informed, which means that 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 in the wake of a traumatic past. No invalidation, no judgment, no shame. You are accepted just as you are, and you are welcome here.
Daily Recovery Support
7 Days a Week, 365 Days a Year
We’re here for you with affordable group calls, in a safe atmosphere, focusing on encouraging you and equipping you with skills and information you can use every single day in your healing journey. Take your healing to the next level!
Healing Book Club
Trauma-Healing Book Chat
Join us every week as we read and discuss trauma-informed resources in a safe atmosphere, by world-renown authors. Registration is always open, so you can join us anytime. Learn more and get signed up today!
Weekly Creative Group
Creative Expression in Healing
The Weekly Creative Group is a safe place to come and express yourself through creative methods. Bring your paints, crayons, sketch pads, arts & crafts, or virtually any other creative art, and join us as we continue healing together.
Trauma-Informed Yoga
Weekly Yoga Classes
This weekly, virtual, yoga program is trauma-informed and focused on helping survivors engage with the present moment, in a validating and encouraging atmosphere.
Daily Encouraging Text
Encouragement on the Go
One text per day, with an encouraging thought or nugget of wisdom to help inspire you as you heal from your past and embrace the hope that is possible in recovery. Start receiving your texts for only $4.99 per month. Cancel Anytime.
CPTSD Community Safe Group
Private and Safe
Our CPTSD Community Safe Group is a place where survivors from around the globe come together to help heal in a safe community. Come and be a part of this Free supportive atmosphere.
You Can Help a Survivor
The CPTSD Scholarship Program provides a means of offsetting the costs to join the Daily Recovery Support Calls and other programs at CPTSD Foundation. Many survivors struggle financially to make ends meet, and still desperately need trauma-informed support as they learn to heal from their past.
Donations from generous people just like you make it possible for men and women all over the world to gain access to the resources they need to manage, heal, and cope with their CPTSD symptoms. Any amount can make a huge difference.
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, and thought leaders who share their lived experience, research, poetry, academic content, and more on our blog!
Get Involved
Do you enjoy volunteering? Do you want to give back and help others using a skill set you have, and a desire to make a difference in the lives of trauma survivors? Click that button and check out the current volunteer opportunities available. We’ll contact you with the next steps.
Recent Blog Posts
Here I Am
I remember the legal process more than the trauma itself. I’ve come to appreciate that memory loss, a defense mechanism that I’ve had a love-hate relationship with for the past decade. While I have not overcome my sensitivity to touch, or my tendency to shut down completely when I am faced with my fears, I have come to love the person I am. I am, a powerful reminder I have my own story to tell, one not dictated by anybody. I am a survivor. I am making my own path. I am driven and accomplished. I am.
Losing my Marbles
Emotions, losing control, not being yourself. I kept feeling like it was something I did. Something I could undo or fix so everything would turn out alright. Unfortunately, things kept getting worse... In the first week, no one knew what was wrong. The only thing I...
How This ‘Ted Lasso’ Theme Relates to My Complex PTSD Healing Journey
This article was originally published on The Mighty. “Ted Lasso” is not a TV show that I would have chosen to watch on my own. In fact, until it was recommended to me, I somehow hadn’t even heard of it. It’s the stuff of delicious irony that I know myself well...
Impostor Syndrome and Self -Compassion
Impostor Syndrome occurs for all sorts of reasons and it pushes us to become extremely hard on ourselves. It also robs us of seeing ourselves: as human beings doing their best, just as they are. Thankfully, self-compassion can help us address the painful feeling of...
A Change of Affection Part II – How A Trauma Bond is Formed
How A Trauma Bond is Formed Scaly grey snake heads with the dead black eyes of a reptile weaved back and forth. Bright red tongues darted to and fro. They covered the Uhaul. I couldn’t look away. Out on my daily walk with Tiny, the chihuahua, I pulled my wheelchair...
Sense of Safety As a Disabled Person
This blog originally posted at: https://powerfullypowerless.wordpress.com/2019/08/09/sense-of-safety-as-a-disabled-person/ Safety is the condition of being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk, or injury. There are many levels of safety, and many ways...
Weekly Live Q&A
Join us every Monday at 9 pm Eastern for a weekly, interactive, Q&A with Athena Moberg on our YouTube Channel. Each week, Athena takes your questions and shares insight on healing from Complex Trauma. All are welcome!
Foundation Events
You can keep track of events held by the Foundation, by checking our Calendar. Everything from topics on the Daily Recovery Support Calls and Healing Book Club, to Weekly Q&A’s on our YouTube Channel.
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 re assured that I’m not alone and others have simular experiences and struggles. I appreciate the validation and encouragement I recieve there and 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.