by Rebekah Brown | Jul 28, 2022 | Abandonment and CPTSD, Attachment Trauma, Boundaries, Building Resilience in Healing, Codependency, CPTSD, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Emotional Wellness, Family Estrangement, Feeling Good Enough, Healing Codependency, Healing Self-Shame, Healthy Relationships, Mindfulness, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Trauma
Conflict panics me. Okay? There…I said it. I am the first to run for cover at the smell of conflict. Why? Because childhood trauma taught me to confuse the two. To me, having a conflict with someone means trauma. And so…avoiding conflict becomes the goal...
by Heidi Fischer | May 2, 2022 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Dissociation and CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Healing Self-Shame, Hope, Mindfulness, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Self Care, Symptoms of CPTSD, Trauma, Treatment, Triggers
This article was originally published on The Mighty, on March 24th, 2022 I am a champion face-planter. I am also highly skilled at tripping over nothing, walking into door frames, and tipping things over. This illustrious title hasn’t won me any medals, rather the...
by Kate K | Apr 21, 2022 | CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Guest Contributor, Healing from Toxic Shame, Healing Self-Shame, Mindfulness, Self-Acceptance
A decade ago, I had a counselor refer to CPTSD as a “psychiatric injury” as opposed to a “mental illness”. Something about that delineation really helped me understand the reality of what was going on. It wasn’t “me” that was the problem, the problem was “what...
by Kelly McNamara | Oct 25, 2021 | ADHD, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Guest Contributor, Healing Self-Shame, Post Traumatic Growth, Triggers
Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, also known as CPTSD, does not only affect captives of war, those affected by institutional traumas, or severe domestic abuse. CPTSD can develop in anyone who has experienced numerous traumas and/or ongoing traumatic events over...
by Gemma Jones | May 11, 2021 | Building Resilience in Healing, Emotional Wellness, Feeling Good Enough, Healing Self-Shame, Self-Acceptance
Strange is my life, when I glaze off into the distance looking at my willow trees in my childhood garden, in my mind, I know why I do it now so many years later. This wonderful brain gave me a way to see something beautiful when something fracturing was done to my...
by Rebekah Brown | May 7, 2021 | CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Guest Contributor, Healing Self-Shame, Hypervigilance, Self-Acceptance
Hypervigilance: The state of being highly alert to potential danger or threat I sat on the floor practicing my trauma techniques as I rubbed my hands across the thick bedroom carpet. Grounding myself in the present, I took a deep breath. My eyes rested on a favorite...
