by Danica Alison | Apr 10, 2025 | Betrayal, Building Resilience in Healing, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Emotional Flashbacks, Guest Contributor, Self-Acceptance
For most of my life, I had no reason to question my past. I had warm childhood memories, a solid understanding of who I was, and no indication that something darker lurked beneath the surface. But then, seemingly out of nowhere, my mind cracked open, and pieces of a...
by Natalie Rose | Jun 19, 2024 | Anger, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Flashbacks, Feeling Good Enough, Guest Contributor, Self Care, Self-Acceptance
The flashbacks were extra intense one night, and my internal anger was boiling over. As an adult, I have always lived alone, so my apartment was my little oasis (and also my torture chamber) where I could express my emotions without people noticing. Most of the...
by Sunny Lynn, OMC | Feb 7, 2023 | Abandonment and CPTSD, Attachment Trauma, Dissociation and CPTSD, Emotional Flashbacks
Lost in the Woods: An Inside Look at the Fractured Experience of Trauma (as published in The Friday Edition of HeartBalm Healing at https://heartbalm.substack.com) INTRODUCTION: In the previous Friday Editon, I wrote about The Downward Spiral of Flashbacks &...
by Sunny Lynn, OMC | Jan 5, 2023 | CPTSD, Depression, Dissociation and CPTSD, Guest Contributor
The Downward Spiral of Flashbacks & Dissociative Episodes (as published in The Friday Edition of HeartBalm Healing at https://heartbalm.substack.com) Recently, a very painful and triggering event dropped me into a deep hole of flashbacks and dissociation. Over the...
by Shirley Davis | May 23, 2022 | Emotional Flashbacks, Triggers
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) is a complicated and life-altering mental health challenge formed when a person is under extreme distress with no escape. Many symptoms accompany CPTSD, with perhaps the most painful being the horrific flashbacks one...
