5 Lies Shame Wants You to Believe: #1 | You are the problem (Video)
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Going Back to Go Forward: Why Recovery from Complex PTSD Requires Revisiting the Unfinished
Many years ago, I took a course to become certified in clinical hypnosis — one more tool to keep in my kit as a licensed clinical psychologist. During that training, the instructor shared his belief that patients should never have to return to the scene of their...
Time to Turn the Tide: Helping Children of Complex Trauma Survivors
I’m a domestic violence victim and I’ve been healing from symptoms of C-PTSD since September 2024 and for the first time ever, I saw what C-PTSD looks like in someone else. Just the other night, I arrived at the edge of the driveway to pick up my...
When the Mother Becomes the Danger
I read Flowers in the Attic when it first came out in the late 1970s, and it horrified me before I understood why. I was young enough then that I did not have the clinical language for caregiver betrayal, childhood captivity, attachment injury, or complex trauma. I...