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Pulling the Information About Trauma-Informed Care Together
We have spent time exploring the basics of becoming trauma-informed and examined how mindfulness, neuroplasticity, and resiliency help form the tripod on which we begin to understand and defeat...
The Difficult Road to Intimacy: Living with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
***Trigger Warning *** The following material has been reported to be highly triggering to some. Please be kind to yourself as you read through the content. The purpose of this article is to help...
Overcoming the Fear of Intimacy
In the last few articles, we have explored together how childhood trauma negatively impacts the ability to form lasting and loving relationships with a partner. We’ve studied the impact that...
Psychotherapy: What to Expect and How to Find Help
In the last two posts, we have examined together some of the types of psychotherapy and the therapeutic alliance. In this piece, we shall explore what to and not expect in psychotherapy, and how...
Five Types of Psychotherapy and How They Can Help You
When people think of psychotherapy, they often visualize Dr. Sigmund Freud holding a note pad with his client lying on a couch facing away from him. While it is true that there are still some...
CPTSD Foundation Presents Our Introduction Article on Psychotherapy.
One of the most important treatments for the effects of complex trauma for adults is psychotherapy. Sitting with another adult who has received training in the listening profession, is a powerful...
Overcoming Shame to Live a New Life
In the past few posts, we have examined the different types of shame and the malignant effects it can have on our brains. In this piece, we are going to explore the different ways that we can...
The Neuroscience of Shame
What happens in the brain to make shame benign or toxic? What parts of our brains are injured by chronically being shamed by our caregivers, and how does that change who we are? These are a few...
The CPTSD Foundation Presents Our Series on Shame
Shame; the feeling that you have done something wrong that goes against your core values. Shame is a normal and natural human emotion that is not harmful. In this series, the CPTSD Foundation is...
use your eyes. use your ears.
food for thought: before we choose to disregard another’s human experience because it is not the same as our own, it might be helpful for us to remember we are not all-knowing or all-present....
Trauma-Informed Care, Neuroplasticity and Mindfulness
The entire series in January will be focusing on how trauma-informed care can help adults overcome the effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). However, to understand the process of...
The Introductory Article to Our Series on Trauma-Informed Care
Many of you, like we who support in various ways the CPTSD Foundation, have survived one or more traumatic events. By traumatic events I offer the following definition I found on the Healthline...
What is Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
“Complex PTSD comes in response to chronic traumatization over the course of months or, more often, years. This can include emotional, physical, and/or sexual abuses, domestic violence, living in a war zone, being held captive, human trafficking, and other organized rings of abuse, and more. While there are exceptional circumstances where adults develop C-PTSD, it is most often seen in those whose trauma occurred in childhood”.
