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The Superpowers of Complex Trauma

by Sunny Lynn, OMC | Jun 1, 2023 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Guest Contributor

The Superpowers of Complex Trauma (as published in The Friday Edition of HeartBalm Healing at https://heartbalm.substack.com) Living with trauma has many facets and differing ways in which it forms and plays out in our lives. It can be a tightrope walk between trying...

Rewriting a Trauma Memory – A Survivor’s Story

by Elizabeth Woods | May 30, 2023 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Guest Contributor, Sexual Abuse, The Brain and CPTSD

TRIGGER WARNING – THIS POST DISCUSSES SEXUAL ABUSE My name is Elizabeth and I am a survivor of sexual abuse. I suffered the worst abuse during my first years if you can call any sexual abuse worse than any other. I think the fact that I was so young made the...

What is Enmeshment?

by Rebekah Brown | May 25, 2023 | Attachment Trauma, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Family Estrangement, Guest Contributor, Healing Codependency, Healing from Toxic Shame, Self-Acceptance, Sexual Abuse

***TRIGGER WARNING: This article discusses abuse. *** What is Enmeshment? Enmeshment describes a relationship pattern between two people or a group of people in which personal boundaries are unclear. It is a hallmark of dysfunctional families and affects...

When “Normal” Doesn’t Fit: How to Develop Self-Love and Nurture a Soft Place To Fall

by Sunny Lynn, OMC | May 17, 2023 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor

When “Normal” Doesn’t Fit: How to Develop Self-Love and Nurture a Soft Place To Fall (as published in The Friday Edition of HeartBalm Healing at https://heartbalm.substack.com) Self-love… what? What is the path to self-love when I have only known suffering, abuse,...

Complex PTSD is Giving Me a Complex

by Belinda Pyle | May 16, 2023 | Anxiety, Attachment Trauma, Building Resilience in Healing, Combat Trauma, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Depression, Feeling Good Enough, Generational Trauma, Hope, Mental Health Advocacy, Pain, Post Traumatic Growth, PTSD, Recovery, Relationships, Self Care, Self-Acceptance, Symptoms of CPTSD, Trauma, Trauma-Informed, Triggers

Ever have something happen to you and suddenly, you’re part of THAT club: every person you meet has experienced the same. Get pregnant, everyone is pregnant. Get divorced, everyone is getting divorced. Get CPTSD, everyone has CPTSD. The pregnancy club membership was...

Identity After Trauma

by Beth Alford | May 5, 2023 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Recovery, Religion and Trauma

Ultimately, it is a personal identity that takes a beating in the aftermath of trauma and where the agency, dignity, and imagination of a flourishing life are short-circuited. As survivors, we know this all too well. I just completed a year-long integrative project...

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