by Cyndi Bennett | Jan 11, 2024 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Trauma, Trauma-Informed, Workplace Trauma
Several people contacted me last week in response to my last email (“My Boss Triggers Me”). I love it when readers email me to share their stories with me because it lets me know that what I’m writing is hitting home for them. In the emails I received from readers,...
by Cyndi Bennett | Jan 4, 2024 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Flashbacks, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD
Trauma survivors may face various challenges in the workplace due to the lasting effects of their traumatic experiences. One of the more disturbing and common challenges is flashbacks. Flashbacks 101 A flashback is a sudden and intense re-experiencing of a traumatic...
by Cyndi Bennett | Dec 28, 2023 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Flashbacks, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD
How to recover from the aftermath of a flashback Last week, I wrote about how to manage flashbacks utilizing grounding techniques. While it is important to have the tools to help you work through a flashback, it is equally important to know how to work through the...
by Cyndi Bennett | Dec 21, 2023 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD
This one phrase is enough to strike fear and paralysis into the heart of any trauma survivor. It comes up often in interviews and initiating connections with people. Why is this so difficult, and what can we do about it? Why is it so difficult to tell people about...
by Cyndi Bennett | Dec 14, 2023 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Life Management Skills, Mindfulness, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Post Traumatic Growth, PTSD, Workplace Trauma
During our lifetime, we experience many new beginnings. New beginnings can feel awkward and unsettling, whether it is a new school, job, program, team, or membership program. For the trauma survivor, however, new beginnings can trigger old messages of not being good...
