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Coming Out Via Flip Phone

by Cassie Sands | Feb 3, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Family Estrangement, Guest Contributor

When I was fifteen, my mom got me my first cell phone – a black Nokia flip phone. Texts were character limited and cost 25 cents both to send and to receive. I still have it, along with its charger, in a box in my second bedroom, nestled among other...

The Re-Emerging of Cara

by Charlene Kwan | Jan 29, 2021 | CPTSD, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Emotional Flashbacks, Guest Contributor, Symptoms of CPTSD, What is CPTSD

It’s been years since she broke free from being either goddess of the universe or scum of the earth – usually the latter more than the former. On one hand, she was bestowed extravagant devotion to the point of embarrassment. Conversely, without warning, a cloak of...

Life is Beautiful

by Rebekah Brown | Jan 27, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Depression, Emotional Flashbacks

In the early morning hours of a winter’s day in 1944, Corrie Ten Boom stood in line for roll call at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp. A middle-aged woman, she and her family had been arrested by the Nazi’s for saving Jews. Standing in that awful place surrounded by...

Rescuing My Inner Child

by Cassie Sands | Jan 21, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Guest Contributor

I distinctly remember the first time I met my inner child. It was the fall of 2019, and I had just started grappling with the realization that the things I went through with my parents did and do, in fact, affect me deeply. Perhaps this is obvious and easy to you,...

A Compassionate Guide to Talking about LBGTQ Issues

by Robyn Brickel | Jan 19, 2021 | CPTSD, LGBTQ and Complex Trauma Healing

On November 7, 2017, Virginia voters elected Danica Roem to the Virginia House of Delegates. Roem is the first openly transgender state legislator in America. Her campaign focused on local issues, especially improving traffic problems, which resonated with voters....

The Human Autonomic Nervous System and Emotional Flashbacks

by Shirley Davis | Jan 18, 2021 | CPTSD, Emotional Flashbacks

Emotional flashbacks are troubling and often disabling events that cause a person to experience alarming and crippling bursts of strong emotions. Emotional flashbacks are experienced without the linked visions from the past that accompany average flashbacks. In this...

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