by Cyndi Bennett | Sep 14, 2022 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Post Traumatic Growth, Trauma
The workplace can be a re-traumatizing place for trauma survivors. Toxic work environments, unrealistic expectations, demanding bosses, multiple competing priorities, not to mention the ever-present trauma triggers lurking at every turn. For those of us trying to...
by Heidi Fischer | Jun 7, 2022 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Post Traumatic Growth
This article was originally published on The Mighty in April 2021. A few years ago, I admitted myself to get some inpatient support for my mental health. If you aren’t aware, part of that process tends to involve multiple lengthy interviews, commonly undertaken by...
by Sunny Lynn, OMC | Jun 7, 2022 | Abandonment and CPTSD, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Dissociation and CPTSD, Emotional Flashbacks, First Responders and CPTSD, Pain, Post Traumatic Growth, Recovery, Self Care, Self-Acceptance, The Brain and CPTSD, Trauma-Informed, Treatment for CPTSD, What is CPTSD
Complex trauma is an amalgamation of long-term abuse and neglect, and therefore when trying to understand a traumatic past from an adult perspective it reveals itself as a confusing mosaic of multi-layered events, scattered along our timeline from the non-verbal stage...
by Cyndi Bennett | Mar 16, 2022 | Attachment Trauma, Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Post Traumatic Growth
With the advent of working from home during COVID, we have all seen and chuckled at the videos going around of people either not being on mute and wishing they were, or people being on mute and wondering why people were not listening to them. Now, there is the double...
by Shirley Davis | Feb 21, 2022 | Attachment Trauma, Complex PTSD Healing, Post Traumatic Growth
Nature has endowed humanity with mechanisms to manage stress, fear, and severe trauma. We can survive childhood rejection by our parents, our peers, and ourselves. There are two mannerisms that we inherited through evolution meant to keep us safe, but that might alter...
by Erin R. Burke | Feb 1, 2022 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Feeling Good Enough, Guest Contributor, Hope, Post Traumatic Growth
At 66, when I look back over my early life, I see the typical manifestations of trauma. I began to “forget” the abuse—dissociate—well before the age of 5. I experienced my first depression at 12. By 14 I had developed an eating disorder, alternating...
