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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...

The Strange World of Dissociation

by Susan Pollard | Jun 17, 2024 | CPTSD, Dissociation and CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional

What is Dissociation? Dissociation runs on a continuum from road hypnosis, daydreaming and losing yourself in a good book to Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and then to the extreme of Dissociative Identity Disorder. The experience is normal when you are lost in...

3 Tips to Tame Your Inner Critic

by Erena DiGonis | Apr 25, 2024 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional

This blog is dedicated to KL thank you for your courage and inspiration. For trauma survivors, the battle with the inner critic can be particularly challenging Those harsh, self-condemning voices from the past can linger in our minds. Whose voice is it anyway? The...