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 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,...
by Martin Dearlove | Dec 18, 2019 | CPTSD Research, CPTSD Survivor Stories
As a new and honored guest writer/blogger with the CPTSD Foundation I am going to start this journey with a series of six-week short articles linking thoughts, experiences, reflections, and academia on the topic of CPTSD with a specific focus on children 0 – 4 years...
by Esme Johnson | Dec 6, 2019 | CPTSD Poetry, CPTSD Survivor Stories
For So Long…A Thank You, to the compassionate witnesses that caught me just in time. (trigger warning)thank you, t For so long, a tortuous lifetime no doubt, Trapped in a medieval pinball machine No rubber bumper obstacles to bounce between. Instead, an...
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 Charity Koltes | Nov 20, 2019 | CPTSD Survivor Stories
There is nothing like a little upheaval to make things “get real” quickly. A little stirring of the pot brings up some of the muck lurking on the bottom, and suddenly, what you thought was calm and clear becomes dark and a little scary. When all is calm, you’re...
