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Off Label Patterns That Reveal Narcissism Part III of III
"You are a bad person if you respond poorly to me" When we search for a clinical explanation about the topic of narcissism we find very strong identifiers that we can zero in on. Identifiers like...
6 Ways to Calm Your Nervous System Right Now and Understand it
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...
Establishing Safety in the Workplace
The workplace can be a re-traumatizing place for trauma survivors. Toxic work environments, unrealistic expectations, demanding bosses, multiple competing priorities, not to mention the...
The Burden of Truth
For trauma sufferers as well as survivors, the burden of truth is often a difficult pill to swallow. In a recent dilemma, I have been stretched and squeezed into a mode of discomfort when it...
Five Habits That Make CPTSD Symptoms Worse
As we struggle with the psychological and neurological effects of trauma in our lives, there are many things about CPTSD that we cannot control. So the things we can control have even more...
Applying Emotional Intelligence to Our Lives
People living with complex post-traumatic stress disorder are notorious for their emotional dysregulation. Emotional intelligence is critically important for controlling one's emotions and...
Gag Me With a Compliment
Why trauma survivors may not be able to receive compliments, praise, or kindness. The funniest thing came to mind when I was thinking about this topic. It was a memory from my childhood of going...
Trauma-Informed Yoga: Interoception (Our Felt Sense)
Many of us have a superpower survivor skill. We’re able to read the room, scope out the nearest exit, understand what the shuffling footstep means, and instantly react to that slight facial...
Emotional Wellness and Understanding the Effects of Conditioning
As I mentioned in the previous post, I had lived over a half-century, clueless in my own understanding of how emotions worked. In fact, I was absolutely unaware that I was clueless. My life...
The Importance of Becoming Emotionally Intelligent
For the past few years, a relatively new phrase has entered the vernacular of psychiatry, emotional intelligence. What is emotional intelligence? How can you achieve it? What are the benefits of...
Off Label Patterns That Reveal Narcissism Part II of III
I want to start the second part of this trilogy by offering you a compliment and that I am convinced because you are here and reading this article because you are wanting to learn. In other...
The Selfish Heart – Relational Trauma in Our Family of Origin
You can’t convince a narcissist to lay down their weapons
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”.
