by Shirley Davis | Jul 19, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, Treatment for CPTSD
Healing from complex trauma takes time, and having a treatment team that is supportive and well-trained in trauma-informed care can be an enormous help. In this article, we shall discuss together more disciplines you can have on your care team and how they can help...
by Robyn Brickel | Jul 16, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, Guest Contributor, Trauma-Informed
I learned an important concept about how to feel emotions again safely – especially after trauma– over 26 years ago from my favorite graduate school professor, the late Terry Taylor Smith, LMFT: When you use the word “but” between two statements, it negates everything...
by Seleste | Jul 14, 2021 | Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Pyschotherapy, Treatment for CPTSD
We all feel a wide range of emotions; sad, happy, mad, excited, scared, lonely, frustrated, bored, anger, the list goes on. Children’s behavior (and misbehavior) is guided by their emotions and their brain states. Even for adults, these emotions can be overwhelming...
by Shirley Davis | Jul 12, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, Treatment for CPTSD
In the first part of this series on treatment planning, we focused on what constitutes a treatment plan. If you remember, “A treatment plan is a document outlining the proposed goals, plan, and therapy method to be used by you and your professional. This plan...
by Tsuhai Nzinga | Jul 7, 2021 | Anxiety, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
What is safe? Most people think and believe that feeling safe is locking the doors and windows; knowing there’s a cop available at the end of a 911 call; or even something as simple as believing that red lights and stop signs will be obeyed by other drivers. In that...
by Shirley Davis | Jul 5, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, Pyschotherapy
Upon seeing a mental health specialist, we are often unclear about what brought us there, our purpose for seeing them, and our goals for the future. One method mental health professionals use to help both you and they guide your healing journey is to form a treatment...
by Cassie Sands | Jul 2, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD Poetry, Guest Contributor
A survivor poem… And through all of this messiness and brokenness and trauma I begin to piece together a more cohesive story of me I discover forgotten, wounded parts of myself Sealed into catacombs of silence and submission long ago Demanding to be heard I find...
by Maxine Dolma | Jun 30, 2021 | Abandonment and CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Guest Contributor
Self-love can feel dangerous, selfish, or vain if you’ve grown up in an abusive environment. The adults in your life most likely spent an excessive amount of time negatively focused on you, using your so-called ‘flaws’ as an excuse to take their anger out...
by Wendy Hoke | Jun 28, 2021 | CPTSD, Dissociation and CPTSD, Guest Contributor
“I tried my insurance, Kaiser Permanente, for therapy. They assigned me to an intern because I wasn’t suicidal. He diagnosed me with PTSD on the first appointment. But on the second appointment, I told him something that happened to me the previous week. He was...
by Gemma Jones | Jun 23, 2021 | Abandonment and CPTSD, Attachment Trauma, Building Resilience in Healing, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Guest Contributor
Windy days that escape my reality to a world of internal intrigue and outside disassociation that will be forever in my psyche. Do I want to leave this world behind I do not really know as it has been my world for such an exceptionally long and the little girl in me...
