by Dr. Robin LaBarbera | Feb 3, 2020 | ACEs, Complex PTSD and Foster Care, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD and PTSD, Trauma-Informed
This article is the third in a three-part series designed to bring awareness to the issue of complex PTSD among foster youth, how C-PTSD affects foster youth who are nearing the age of transition or exit from foster care, and the implications for social workers and...
by Shirley Davis | Jan 30, 2020 | Mindfulness
In January, we have focused on how mindfulness, prayer, and meditation can help complex trauma survivors climb from the pit of despair into the sunshine of healing. In this last piece, we shall examine the neuroscience behind mindfulness, prayer, and meditation plus...
by Shirley Davis | Jan 27, 2020 | Mindfulness
When one thinks of meditation some will think of someone sitting cross-legged on the floor, with fingers in a funny position, repeating a simple word or sound such as “ooommm”. However, meditation is much deeper and richer a practice than just the one practice...
by Dr. Robin LaBarbera | Jan 23, 2020 | ACEs, Complex PTSD and Foster Care, CPTSD and PTSD, Trauma-Informed
This article is the second in a three-part series designed to bring awareness to the issue of complex PTSD among foster youth, how C-PTSD affects foster youth who are nearing the age of transition or exit from foster care, and the implications for social workers and...
by Shirley Davis | Jan 20, 2020 | CPTSD, CPTSD Research, Mindfulness
When the word prayer comes to mind one might conjure images of organized religious services. However, prayer is a much richer and more meaningful experience than only that experienced through contact with a church, synagogue, r mosque, or other places of worship....
by Dr. Robin LaBarbera | Jan 16, 2020 | ACEs, Complex PTSD and Foster Care, CPTSD and PTSD, Trauma-Informed
This article is the first of a three-part series designed to bring awareness to the issue of complex PTSD among foster youth, how C-PTSD affects foster youth who are nearing the age of transition or exit from foster care, and the implications for social workers and...
by Shirley Davis | Jan 13, 2020 | CPTSD Research, Mindfulness, Treatment for CPTSD
All human beings have a tendency to relive trauma even decades after it has ended. Those living with the effects of complex post-traumatic stress disorder tend to ruminate and live their lives in a morass of flashbacks and pain. Mindfulness is an ability that is vital...
by Godoy | Jan 9, 2020 | CPTSD Survivor Stories
Self-blame, insecurity, depression, codependency, helplessness… There has to be something wrong with me. Right? I learned from a young age that I had to work through life by sacrifice. It does not matter who you are; if you are not useful, not capable of giving...
by Shirley Davis | Jan 6, 2020 | Mindfulness
Those of our readers who live with the effects of complex post-traumatic stress disorder understand better than most how chaotic the mind can become. The hustle of the world, coupled with the healing process, can overburden, and bring down survivors into the abyss of...
by Jennifer "Kaylene" Carter | Jan 2, 2020 | CPTSD Poetry, CPTSD Survivor Stories
Keep your head up, your spirits high. Keep learning new ways to fly. Choose your friends with care, Lest you stumble and not have them there. Don’t be swayed by the ways of the others you see. Their opinions won’t matter, eventually. Look for new adventures,...
