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Poets Lie, Bodies Don’t: Movement Journaling with Mindy Levine

by Susan Tait | Sep 9, 2024 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Life Management Skills, Yoga

If “the moving finger writes, and having written, moves on,” as poet Omar Khayyam wrote, then I wonder if the moving body also writes in its own way. I think it must, for I see that trauma-informed yoga does exactly this. When we are not curious about the sensations...

Top 3 Tools to Activate the Relaxation Response

by Erena DiGonis | May 28, 2024 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Life Management Skills, Mindfulness

Introduction Trauma can cast a long shadow on our lives, affecting our emotional well-being and overall health. While it’s important to seek professional help for trauma recovery, there are also practical tools you can incorporate into your daily routine to...

Safe Place

by Adina Lynn LeCompte | May 27, 2024 | Boundaries, Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, Core Beliefs, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Expressive Writing, Guest Contributor, Healing Codependency, Healing from Toxic Shame, Healing Self-Shame, Healthy Relationships, Life Management Skills, Nature, Pyschotherapy, Recovery, Self Care, self trust, Self-Acceptance

I have a wonderful therapist. It’s not your usual “talk therapy,” though. We do talk, and I have come to trust him implicitly. He has helped me heal from PTSD and complex relational trauma, and the transformation since I began working with him far exceeds phenomenal....

C.G.S? Can’t Get Started?

by Cyndi Bennett | Jan 25, 2024 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Life Management Skills, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Workplace Trauma

Have you ever made the brave decision to change careers, become an entrepreneur, or maybe become a coach? You went to school, took the training, passed the exam, and received your diploma/certificate, but you still don’t feel ready to move forward. Are you the kind of...

The Awkwardness of New Beginnings

by Cyndi Bennett | Dec 14, 2023 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Life Management Skills, Mindfulness, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Post Traumatic Growth, PTSD, Workplace Trauma

During our lifetime, we experience many new beginnings. New beginnings can feel awkward and unsettling, whether it is a new school, job, program, team, or membership program. For the trauma survivor, however, new beginnings can trigger old messages of not being good...

Triggers – Good, Bad, or Both?

by Elizabeth Woods | Oct 12, 2023 | CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor, Life Management Skills

***TRIGGER WARNING*** This article discusses trauma, including sexual references that may not be appropriate for all. My name is Elizabeth, and I am a survivor of CSA and unimaginable trauma. I have lived through a childhood full of sexual torture and witnessed...