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Treating Complex Relational Trauma
Complex relational trauma is the cause of complex post-traumatic stress disorder, a mental health issue that alters lives. Many people have experienced complex relational trauma but have no idea...
What Is the Best Way To Respond to Parental Alienation?
What can be more painful than experiencing your children rejecting you? Telling you they hate you. Saying they never want to see you again! Declaring they never had a loving relationship with you! Wishing you dead.
EMDR Adventures: Community Room and Internal Family Systems
“Breathe deeply.” I close my eyes and belly breathe as my EMDR therapist scoots her chair closer. This is standard practice in our weekly sessions. Soon she’ll tell me to open my eyes, focus on a...
Haunted: The Recurring Horrors of CPTSD
Survivors of abuse and neglect are constantly haunted by the ghosts of the past – triggered in broad daylight by the actions of others and the fallout of everyday events. Each day is a ride through a haunted house to some degree – never knowing what is around the next corner, or who will alert or startle us triggering old or new wounds.
CPTSD Coping Strategies: When Life is Tough
TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains childhood sexual abuse. Somebody once told me “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade”. Those people only experience hard times every so often. Maybe a...
7 Reasons People With Mental Illness Might ‘Disappear’
This article was originally published on The Mighty. If you’ve decided to read this writing, my guess is you likely have someone in your life who has a mental illness and who also disappears. You...
CPTSD Treatment Option: An Introduction to EMDR
There is much interest mentioned lately on our platform of people wanting to know more about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). This piece is devoted to exploring EMDR and how...
Is it Crisis, or Just Tuesday?
TRIGGER WARNING" I’m going to talk about suicide and other hard and ugly things. If this isn’t for you, please, move along. Comments will be monitored. ************************************ I have...
CPTSD in the Workplace: Overwhelmed
Time constraints, multiple competing priorities, and high expectations can lead to feeling overwhelmed, but for the trauma survivor, it may trigger a much deeper experience, but we don’t have to be paralyzed by it. This article will explore the body’s stress response, the emotions triggered by these sensations, and what you can do to “dig out” of feeling overwhelmed.
Living With CPTSD
Living with CPTSD or Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is not always easy. A survivor has that constant internal fight. Am I happy today? Am I sad? Why am I shaking from that nightmare? What...
Complex Trauma and the Damaged Self
It’s difficult to become who you are when beset by survival fears Know thyself. Be your best self! Confident people have high self-esteem. Egotistical people are self-centered. Self-awareness is...
6 Ways to Calm Your Nervous System Right Now
Do you always feel like you’re on high alert? Or do you just feel numb? Perhaps you bounce back and forth between the two? Have you wondered how to feel calm or peaceful? If you find the state of...
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”.
