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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 of...
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. there...
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 healing,...
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...
Taking Stock of Christmas 2018 and Facing the New Year
December was very trying for those of us living with complex post-traumatic stress disorder. We may have endured visiting relatives who lived up to our expectations of being highly triggering, which...
Why Do Survivors Suffer Such Painful Emotions at Christmas Time?
As Christmas approaches, most people who live with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) find themselves engulfed with dread. December rolls around every year, and they find themselves in a...
Surviving the Holidays Despite Living with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
The stresses we impose upon ourselves and our families at Christmas, unfortunately, have become a tradition. This month, we are going to offer you a series of articles on surviving the holidays. We...
There is Hope: Understanding the Nature of the Treatment for Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
In this set of articles posted in November, we have been exploring several topics related to Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). We have examined...
Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Adverse Childhood Experiences, and their associated Mental Health Disorders.
This month we have been discussing complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD/ c-PTSD/ Complex PTSD) and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). So far, we have explored the definitions of both,...
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”.
