Comments on: Seeking … and Finding the Gift. https://cptsdfoundation.org/2020/10/30/seeking-and-finding-the-gift/ The Foundation for Post-Traumatic Healing and Complex Trauma Research Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:10:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: J Bradley O https://cptsdfoundation.org/2020/10/30/seeking-and-finding-the-gift/#comment-3604 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:10:04 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=233236#comment-3604 In reply to Rebekah Brown.

Thank you, Rebekah! To me, that similarity is very meaningful, especially since we often struggle with feeling so alone. I’m grateful for your comment!

]]> By: J Bradley O https://cptsdfoundation.org/2020/10/30/seeking-and-finding-the-gift/#comment-3603 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:07:51 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=233236#comment-3603 In reply to Maria Fisher.

Thank you, Maria! So glad it was helpful. Hang in there! However things look, progress is possible!

]]> By: J Bradley O https://cptsdfoundation.org/2020/10/30/seeking-and-finding-the-gift/#comment-3602 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:06:36 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=233236#comment-3602 In reply to lari.

Thank you so much, lari! I’m so glad you appreciated the article! And thrilled to hear that you have moved to a place where kindness and compassion are the norm! So very inspiring!

]]> By: lari https://cptsdfoundation.org/2020/10/30/seeking-and-finding-the-gift/#comment-3292 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 09:03:34 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=233236#comment-3292 In reply to Annette Ford.

Discovering the pain of CPTSD is not my enemy but my wound has radically changed the relationship I have with it. I have moved from living in an atmosphere if threat and mutual hostility to one where kindness and compassion are the norm.

Thank you for such an excellent article, I very much look forward to your book!

]]> By: lari https://cptsdfoundation.org/2020/10/30/seeking-and-finding-the-gift/#comment-3291 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 09:03:04 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=233236#comment-3291 In reply to J Bradley O.

Discovering the pain of CPTSD is not my enemy but my wound has radically changed the relationship I have with it. I have moved from living in an atmosphere if threat and mutual hostility to one where kindness and compassion are the norm.

Thank you for such an excellent article, I very much look forward to your book!

]]> By: Rebekah Brown https://cptsdfoundation.org/2020/10/30/seeking-and-finding-the-gift/#comment-2511 Thu, 12 Nov 2020 01:14:43 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=233236#comment-2511 It is so strange and then, I guess, not so strange how similar the symptoms from childhood trauma are from person to person. Thank you for sharing. You are helping others heal every time you tell the truth.

]]> By: Maria Fisher https://cptsdfoundation.org/2020/10/30/seeking-and-finding-the-gift/#comment-2463 Sun, 08 Nov 2020 19:46:33 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=233236#comment-2463 Bradley,
Thank you for sharing your story. Its helped me today…when going through struggles.

]]> By: J Bradley O https://cptsdfoundation.org/2020/10/30/seeking-and-finding-the-gift/#comment-2435 Thu, 05 Nov 2020 15:17:28 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=233236#comment-2435 In reply to Annette Ford.

Hello Annette. Sounds like you’re well into your own recovery journey. Awesome! Thank you so much for your wonderful comments. I’m glad this post spoke to you.

Will keep you posted on my book, Shimmering Shattered Self, Reclaiming Treasure from the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse. It has a lot to offer any survivor or supporter.

Many well wishes on your recovery journey!

]]> By: Annette Ford https://cptsdfoundation.org/2020/10/30/seeking-and-finding-the-gift/#comment-2417 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 04:07:38 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=233236#comment-2417 I appreciate the article and have printed it out, hope that is ok. I have a lot of memory deficits related to C-PTSD and it is something I don’t want to forget. I would like to know when J Bradley’s book is done – both my young sons were sexually abused years ago and the quality of their life has definitely been compromised. It is excruciating to witness.

I like the thought that inner pain could be defined as a loving alert that something needs attention.

My recovery has taken me in directions I could never have imagined as a Resource Detective – a concept out of Stanford University’s course Take Charge: Living A Healthy Life with a Chronic Illness. My first lesson was learning that I could somehow fashion a healthy life in spite of what happened. At the time I was still mired in the mind set that if I had a healthy life, I wouldn’t have had a chronic illness and my brain and body would work better. Today, I marvel that I would not know myself as I do today without the difficult experiences – like the author mentioned I have a choice of perspective – I am learning to see and accept other perspectives and it is helping me to realize how distorted my own views have been sometimes.

I’ve learned to look at how far I have come instead of wasting anymore time on yesterday because as the sign above my computer says: Don’t Look Back, you’re not going that way!”

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