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How Creativity Can Help Trauma
Hi, I am Vicky a new guest writer with CPTSD Foundation.I understand first-hand how complex trauma can take your life from under your feet, causing adomino effect on your work, family life, and...
Suicide and Complex Trauma
***TRIGGER WARNING*** This article will tackle active suicide and may not be suitable for sensitive audiences. September is Suicide Prevention Month. This article, which is part of a series,...
CPTSD: A Day in the Life
Many people in the UK and other countries have little understanding of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) outside of veterans. Even more, people have absolutely no knowledge of Complex Post...
My Boss Triggers Me
What to do when your boss reminds you of your abuser. As a trauma recovery career coach, one of the common challenges I hear from survivors is that they are triggered by their boss, or their boss...
How to Stop Living by Default and Build Emotional Self-Awareness
Why is no one talking about our lack of emotional training? Even as trauma moves into the forefront, there is still a long way to go when it comes to informing others, especially those who don’t...
Feel So Different: Two Years After Diagnosis
When Sinéad O’Connor’s The Lion and the Cobra was released in 1987, I was an exchange student spending my senior year of high school in West Berlin, Germany. My mom and stepdad sent me the...
The Trauma Response and Suicide
****Trigger Warning**** This article talks about suicide and suicidal ideation, which may not be suitable for all people. Reader caution is advised. The trauma response causes people not to think...
CPTSD in the Workplace: Trigger Toolkit
Getting Prepared to Manage Your Triggers One of the most common and challenging tasks a survivor has to deal with daily is managing trauma triggers, especially in the workplace. I have said this...
Living with C-PTSD: Navigating a World That Misunderstands Trauma
I often find myself caught between two feelings. The first is the instinct to correct and clarify when someone misuses a term associated with my experience. The second is the desire to be...
Going No Contact and the Wisdom of Goldilocks
There is growth, expansion, and evolution that happens when "going no contact" and facing the next steps of rebuilding a life for yourself that is grounded in healing, self-loving actions, and an empowered HeartSpace that grows as we grow. It is an ongoing garden that needs tending, nourishing, harvesting, and a lot of love, compassion, understanding, forgiveness, and gratitude.
Silent Depression
Most of us have heard of depression and its implications for those who live with it, but have you ever heard the term “silent” or “hidden” depression? This article will explore hidden depression...
CPTSD in the Workplace: Anticipatory Anxiety
How to overcome the “What ifs” I have been talking a lot about managing our triggers in the workplace because it is a big struggle for most trauma survivors. Hypervigilance and anxiety can be...
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”.
