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Finding a Sense of Wholeness: Complex PTSD, Self-Compassion, and Self-Marveling

by Jennifer Lock Oman | Sep 16, 2024 | CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Awareness, Mental Health Professional

“Why do I feel as though I’m writing a sad story, when my aim was to tell the story of a liberation?” – Edouard Louis On the road of healing from Complex PTSD (CPTSD), our stories are often filled with sadness. In other moments they may be filled with stories...

How Do you Emotionally Self-Regulate to Handle Life?

by Robyn Brickel | Sep 2, 2024 | CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional, Mindfulness, Self Regulation

When feeling emotionally triggered or activated, we all have developed ways to ‘feel better’. For some, that is getting back into ourselves—being back in our bodies or getting to a calmer state. This is called emotional regulation, where we attempt to bring ourselves...

Healing From Trauma? You Might See Your Relationships Differently

by Robyn Brickel | Aug 26, 2024 | CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional

As trauma survivors begin to heal or experience post-traumatic growth, they often gain new insight into many parts of their lives, including relationships. Once beginning to view life through a trauma-informed lens, so many differences may appear. What you notice...

Clinical Observations from an Estrangement Clinician: Observation #3

by Lynn 18 | Aug 19, 2024 | Estrangement, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional

I am an estrangement clinician primarily working with parents who are estranged from their adult sons and/or daughters. My lived experience as an estranged parent is a far greater credential than my degree in psychology and my training as a life coach combined. Like...

Managing CPTSD: Honoring How Far You’ve Come

by Jennifer Lock Oman | Jul 29, 2024 | ACEs, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Family Disease, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional

Generations of negative family patterns and relational wounds are our legacies In healing from relational trauma or resulting Complex PTSD – a type of PTSD thought to arise as a result of extended or repeated trauma – we often forget or dismiss what it is...

5 Valuable Life Skills Often Learned by Those With Complex PTSD

by Jennifer Lock Oman | Jul 1, 2024 | Brain Chemistry, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional

Strengths can be found in childhood survival strategies. Complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) is much more prevalent than anyone might surmise. Because adults who managed this attachment trauma as children learned many adaptive survival skills that they...