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Overcoming Complex PTSD and Negative Core Beliefs
Core beliefs are vital to who we are as humans, guiding how we treat ourselves and those around us. When a person has suffered complex trauma, these critical internal viewpoints often become...
Belonging – A Survivor’s Story
Belonging - the feeling of being comfortable and happy in a particular situation or with a particular group of people, and being treated as a full member of the group. Source: Oxford Advanced...
CPTSD in the Workplace: Psychological Safety
Photo by Campaign Creators on Unsplash In 2015, Google released the results of a two-year study on team performance. They found that one of the common attributes of all high-performing teams is...
When Having a Trauma-Informed Doctor Is a Matter of Life and Death
***Trigger warning*** This guest post discusses specific, explicit, aspects of a personal trauma story. Please be kind to yourself as you read. A letter to the doctor who almost killed me: There...
Abraxas Rose from the Dead
We were newlyweds living in Missoula, Montana. I loved the funky town. But the best part of being there was that it was 1,300 miles away from Waterloo, Iowa, where Tom’s parents lived, and 862...
What are Your Core Beliefs?
In this series on core beliefs, we are discussing how these self-imposed and self-defining thought patterns can either help or hinder you and your life. Because of childhood maltreatment, many...
Surviving While Trying to Thrive: Life with CPTSD
In the end, we all have the wish to heal, to thrive, to feel fully into our body and mind – and into the moment. We long to know what true love feels like and looks like – we long to trust another fully and let ourselves unfold. We yearn to know who we are without the shackles and memories of traumatic experiences haunting our every breath, and the words and actions of callous abusers creeping through our mind disguised as our own thoughts and beliefs.
CPTSD in the Workplace: An Inside Job
When I talk to trauma survivors about their experiences in the workplace, I often sense that they are more interested in changing their work environment than in changing themselves. This might...
Safe Places for Victims of Sexual Abuse?
The recent news of David Carrick's arrest sheds light on why it is so difficult for victims and survivors of violence and rape to disclose abuse. We are encouraged to call the Police but, very...
Reflection on Complex PTSD (Part 1)
Growing up in Japan with a workaholic surgeon father, an often-absent socialite mother, and two older brothers who were seldom around, I was mostly raised by a revolving door of caregivers. This...
Overcoming Threats From Your Abuser
My name is Elizabeth and I am a survivor of CSA and horrific trauma. Abuse and fear are all I can remember from my childhood. I was a sex toy, loaned out for the pleasure of my so-called father’s...
Negative Core Beliefs
All of us have core beliefs that we hold about ourselves. These beliefs shape who we fundamentally are and how we behave. This article, the first in this series, will focus on negative core...
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”.
