by Lisa Taylor | Mar 5, 2020 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Depression, Emotional Flashbacks, Grief, Guest Contributor, Healing from Toxic Shame, Mindfulness
It has taken me 43 years to be able to have the strength to write the words I did get out below, it ends abruptly because I could not go any further at that moment, however, I like each of you, am still healing from trauma. I will continue to dig deep and work on a...
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 Esme Johnson | Dec 12, 2019 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD Poetry, Guest Contributor
A Glimmer of Hope, a Survivor Poem. (trigger warning) Those things, you know, they ripped apart my childish soul Greedily grabbed and pulled out its beating heart They chewed it up, spat it out with contempt and Stamped upon it as it lay dying in the mud. Then you...
by Verity Wolfe | Dec 2, 2019 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Emotional Flashbacks, Healing from Toxic Shame
Throughout my EMDR therapy journey, I’ve come to realize that all of our incarnations and former selves still live on within us, and the way that we treat/think/talk about them still affects them. If it affects them, it also affects us. Today I worked on the...
by Shirley Davis | Oct 28, 2019 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD Research, Symptoms of CPTSD
In this series, we have concentrated on the symptoms of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) and highlighted how each one changes lives. This article will focus on the final six symptoms: Feeling different from other people Feeling ashamed Feeling guilty...
by Verity Wolfe | Oct 24, 2019 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories
I’m a forty-two-year-old woman, haunted by mental illness for as long as I can remember, and yet it’s only within the last two years that Complex PTSD has become known to me. No one in the mental health profession has ever uttered the words to me. The only...
