by Rebekah Brown | Mar 24, 2021 | Attachment Trauma, CPTSD, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Emotional Flashbacks, Outer Critic, Polyvagal Theory and CPTSD, Symptoms of CPTSD, The Brain and CPTSD
The Thumb-Sucker Fight or flight: the instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation, which readies one either to resist forcibly or to run away. **Please be kind to yourself as you read** I thought I was safe. At four years old, I believed if I...
by Rebekah Brown | Mar 19, 2021 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Emotional Flashbacks, Polyvagal Theory and CPTSD, Symptoms of CPTSD, The Brain and CPTSD
Blackbird Fight or flight: the instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation, which readies one either to resist forcibly or to run away. I covered my ears at the deafening sound of the shotgun blast. My father discharged another volley into the...
by Gemma Jones | Mar 17, 2021 | CPTSD Survivor Stories, Guest Contributor
The Dreaded DSM and CPSTD According to the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) when I describe my symptoms, it advises doctors, psychologists that I would most likely have borderline personality disorder sometimes Bipolar previously known as...
by Cassie Sands | Mar 11, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Family Estrangement, Grief, Guest Contributor
I started writing as a way to process and talk about exceedingly difficult things I knew I needed to discuss in therapy but was unable to even begin to make sense of myself. For such a long time, I wasn’t able in any way to discuss much more than I had been...
by Danielle Renee Murphy | Mar 10, 2021 | ACEs, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD Survivor Stories
For this, my premiere blog post through CPTSD Foundation, I thought I might take a moment to introduce myself as a clinician, expressive therapist, and writer in that order. The reality is I eat, sleep, and breathe my job as a Family-Based Therapist at Scranton...
by Cassie Sands | Feb 24, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Family Estrangement, Guest Contributor, LGBTQ and Complex Trauma Healing
Like many others in the LGBTQ community, coming out was a painful and difficult experience. For someone like myself, who comes from an abusive family of origin as well as a strict religious community, this process was especially complicated. After I came out to my mom...
