by Jennifer Lock Oman | Sep 16, 2024 | CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Awareness, Mental Health Professional
“Why do I feel as though I’m writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?” – Edouard Louis On the road of healing from Complex PTSD (CPTSD), our stories are often filled with sadness. In other moments they may be filled with stories...
by Jennifer Lock Oman | Jul 29, 2024 | ACEs, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Family Disease, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional
Generations of negative family patterns and relational wounds are our legacies In healing from relational trauma or resulting Complex PTSD – a type of PTSD thought to arise as a result of extended or repeated trauma – we often forget or dismiss what it is...
by Jennifer Lock Oman | Jul 1, 2024 | Brain Chemistry, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional
Strengths can be found in childhood survival strategies. Complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) is much more prevalent than anyone might surmise. Because adults who managed this attachment trauma as children learned many adaptive survival skills that they...
by Jennifer Lock Oman | May 30, 2024 | Anger, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor
Among the limited options available to manage relational trauma as children and teens, many of us with early relational wounding took the behavioral route of being reserved, respectful, compliant, and often tuned into others’ needs above our own. With this...
by Jennifer Lock Oman | Apr 17, 2024 | CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional
In adapting to the circumstances of growing up with relational trauma, most of us had to give up our innate sense of personal power or sovereignty Generally, this meant having to forfeit our agency, vibrancy, energy, or creativity. Most of all, it meant no one was...
