by Terry Baranski | May 23, 2023 | CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor, Mindfulness, Pain, Uncategorized
The CPTSD foundation’s website succinctly defines CPTSD as a term that “describes the results of ongoing, inescapable, relational trauma.” In this post I’ll delve into trauma, using a wider lens than is typical. I’ll differentiate between...
by Belinda Pyle | May 16, 2023 | Anxiety, Attachment Trauma, Building Resilience in Healing, Combat Trauma, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Depression, Feeling Good Enough, Generational Trauma, Hope, Mental Health Advocacy, Pain, Post Traumatic Growth, PTSD, Recovery, Relationships, Self Care, Self-Acceptance, Symptoms of CPTSD, Trauma, Trauma-Informed, Triggers
Ever have something happen to you and suddenly, you’re part of THAT club: every person you meet has experienced the same. Get pregnant, everyone is pregnant. Get divorced, everyone is getting divorced. Get CPTSD, everyone has CPTSD. The pregnancy club membership was...
by Milena Koljensic | Feb 17, 2023 | CPTSD, Depression, Grief, Guest Contributor, Pain, Trauma
I spent my childhood terrified of the word “death”. I can remember lying in bed feeling my heart swell in my chest every time the thought of death crossed my mind. I feared death because my parents were much older than the parents of my peers — the thought of losing...
by Jeff Spiteri | Feb 9, 2023 | Mental Health Advocacy, Pain, Self Care, Spirituality, Trauma, Treatment, Treatment for CPTSD
When I discuss Trauma treatments with people whether it be for PTSD or CPTSD I often hear a range of modalities from classical talk therapies like CBT and DBT to Somatic Experiencing, neuro hacks like EMDR and TRE, to cutting-edge research on psychedelics but rarely...
by Milena Koljensic | Dec 20, 2022 | Guest Contributor, Pain, Parental Alienation, Toxic Relationships
Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) is a term that was coined twenty years ago by Richard A. Gardner, the MD an American psychiatrist. Working with families primarily involved in custody struggles, he noticed a sort of brainwashing occurring at the hands of one...
by Lee Frost | Oct 12, 2022 | Childhood Sexual Abuse, CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Pain
TRIGGER WARNING: the following article discusses sexual assault. My CPTSD is based on traumas that started in early childhood. I have no conscious memory of “normal.” My traumas are old, familiar enemies. I know them well. They’ve become characters in my mind to...
