by Rebekah Brown | Apr 9, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Emotional Flashbacks, Emotional Wellness, The Brain and CPTSD, Treatment for CPTSD
The desert of the Southwestern United States has a strange, stark beauty all its own. Gorgeous sunsets, rock formations and deep canyons accented with spiky cactus resemble another world. If you grew up back east like I did, your previous experience with plant life...
by Andrew Corbett | Mar 29, 2021 | Attachment Trauma, CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Symptoms of CPTSD, The Brain and CPTSD
It’s around 8 or 9 on a Saturday night and I’m on a 3-hour drive home. I’m returning from the field research I do every weekend in California’s Central Valley as part of my graduate studies. I’m feeling horrible, but not because of any particular event or problem. The...
by Rebekah Brown | Mar 24, 2021 | Attachment Trauma, CPTSD, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Emotional Flashbacks, Outer Critic, Polyvagal Theory and CPTSD, Symptoms of CPTSD, The Brain and CPTSD
The Thumb-Sucker Fight or flight: the instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation, which readies one either to resist forcibly or to run away. **Please be kind to yourself as you read** I thought I was safe. At four years old, I believed if I...
by Rebekah Brown | Mar 19, 2021 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Emotional Flashbacks, Polyvagal Theory and CPTSD, Symptoms of CPTSD, The Brain and CPTSD
Blackbird Fight or flight: the instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation, which readies one either to resist forcibly or to run away. I covered my ears at the deafening sound of the shotgun blast. My father discharged another volley into the...
by Jess | Feb 19, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Research, Depression, Dissociation and CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Hypervigilance, Symptoms of CPTSD, The Brain and CPTSD, Trauma-Informed
Today I wanted to take a step back and talk about something that I researched relatively recently for a different project. Something that has only become more relevant in my life as this post has sat around, untouched. The connections between rumination, depression,...
by Elizabeth Connis | Jan 20, 2021 | COVID-19, First Responders and CPTSD, The Brain and CPTSD, Trauma-Informed
The coronavirus pandemic has forced me (like far too many others) to think further about the world around me in a more precise, exact way. And, I know I am not alone in this. Every detail, all around us, has suddenly become very, very relevant to…. everyone. We have...
