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Are You an Honest Person?
We are all liars In the very moment that our trust is violated and we are abused, we have to make a decision – will we tell or will we cover it up?Most of us, because we are young when the abuse...
Examining the ‘D’ in CPTSD
Introduction One of the banes of our culture’s psychiatric ideology is its tendency to pathologize mental health difficulties as “disorders” and “diseases”, both of which imply that there’s...
Caregiver? How to Protect Yourself from an Abusive Parent
Dr. Jamie, a trauma-certified therapist and our advisor wholeheartedly believes that caregiving has been too reliant on co-dependency as a core issue of compassion fatigue. Many of us care for...
Why Complex Trauma Survivors Can’t Just ‘Get Over It’
God asks no person whether he or she will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how ~ Henry Ward Beecher Trauma is a penetrating wound and injury, which...
Purple Couch
It is a beautiful spring day, and all I want to do is pray. In my quirky way, I sat on the couch where the cushions did slouch. I then unzipped my drawing pouch. With my assortment of pencils,...
The LGBTQIA+ Community Complex Trauma, PTSD, and CPTSD
With all the trauma the LGBTQIA+ community faces nowadays, we must discuss how complex trauma from your past has shaped who you are today. No, I don’t mean that childhood trauma caused you to be...
The Black Hole in My Brain
TRIGGER WARNING: This blog discusses sexual abuse 2022 was chock-full of 20-year anniversaries for me. I was diagnosed with PTSD 20 years ago. Several terrifying events happened 20 years ago....
Healing Childhood Trauma, Part 1 – Acceptance
The child finds themselves living in a situation in which they have little or no control nor is there any hope of escape.
Free to be Happy
Recently, during meditation, I heard a young inner part of me, loud and clear: "I am not allowed to be happy." I had just received the publication date for The Blossoming Lotus, my up-coming...
Where Did all This Judgment Come From?
Do you judge yourself? Do you judge others? Do you find yourself critically responding (out loud, or in your mind) with demeaning or derogatory statements when you have a thought or notice a...
Undeserved Shame and the LGBTQ+ Community
June is Pride month, and CPTSD Foundation wants to acknowledge and celebrate our LBGTQ+ neighbors and friends. We will start with an article about how shame impacts lives in the LGBTQ+ community....
When Loving Someone in Need of Care Takes a Toll on You
How to take care of yourself by still being supportive of a trauma survivor. When a partner, friend, or family member has complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) it can affect their loved...
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”.
