by Rebekah Brown | Sep 28, 2022 | Anger, Anxiety, Boundaries, Brain Chemistry, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Guest Contributor, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Recovery, Self Care, Trauma
What is The Dread? The Dread. That sounds rather odd doesn’t it? It makes dread personal. Like a living thing that comes in and out of my life as it pleases. Well, that’s exactly what it feels like. In author, Stephanie Foo’s excellent book about recovery from...
by Tracy Guy | Sep 22, 2022 | Abuse, Anger, Anxiety, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Depression, Dissociation and CPTSD, Emotional Flashbacks, Family Estrangement, Grief, OCD, Parental Alienation, Post Traumatic Growth, Recovery, Relationships, Self Care, Self-Acceptance, Sexual Abuse, Shame, Silent Bystander Parents, Symptoms of CPTSD, Trauma, Trauma-Informed, Trauma-Informed Tuesday Newsletter, Treatment, Treatment for CPTSD, What is CPTSD
What is Betrayal Trauma? How do you begin to heal when you discover that your partner has been unfaithful? How do you learn to trust again when a family member has betrayed you? How do you move forward when your boss abused their position of power and sexually...
by Sylvie Rouhani | Jul 15, 2022 | CPTSD Survivor Stories, Guest Contributor, Recovery, Trauma-Informed
Recovery groups, as well as any religious and spiritual groups, like to overuse the words “Victim” and “Survivor” and, it seems, that victims are childish, negative, and difficult adults and, survivors, are heroes, positive and inspirational....
by Sylvie Rouhani | Jul 1, 2022 | ACEs, Guest Contributor, Hope, Recovery, Spirituality, Trauma-Informed
Impostor Syndrome occurs for all sorts of reasons and it pushes us to become extremely hard on ourselves. It also robs us of seeing ourselves: as human beings doing their best, just as they are. Thankfully, self-compassion can help us address the painful feeling of...
by Sylvie Rouhani | Jun 9, 2022 | CPTSD, Family Estrangement, Guest Contributor, LGBTQ, LGBTQ and Complex Trauma Healing, Parental Alienation, Recovery, Relationships, Sexual Abuse
Trigger Warning: This blog deals with childhood sexual abuse. Some of us, within the LGBTQA+ community, face additional barriers when disclosing our stories of child sexual abuse. The myths and misconceptions about sexuality and child abuse are hurting us and...
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...
