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Motivational Healing: Are they psychological partners?
Each person has, either built up during their life or “inherited” situations that foster psychological barriers. Such psychological barriers, real or imagined, are usually generated by not imagining that one can achieve something. How could one handle things differently to create a more positive expectation? The suggestion is to honestly acknowledge what your true desire is in this matter. Freedom in some areas, is usually a common human motivator, especially in the arena of healing.
Supporting Extended Family Dynamics when you live with CPSTD
Relationships and C-PTSD. Interpersonal skills are hard to navigate at the best of times. Having C-PTSD puts an interesting and sometimes tragic touch on us. I woke up today and with an epiphany...
The Differences Between Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth
As stated in article one of this series on resiliency, according to the American Psychological Association, resiliency is: "the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy,...
C-PTSD: The demons put there by others and The substances that help them disappear.
CPTSD – The demons put there by others………. The substances that help them disappear if only for a while………… I fumbled out of my house at the age of 16, already been through an incredible amount of...
Mrs. King Versus the Gaslighters
Gaslighting: to manipulate (someone) by psychological or abusive means into questioning reality. I had watched my big brother board the school bus every day for the last year. Now, it was finally...
Coming Out Via Flip Phone
When I was fifteen, my mom got me my first cell phone - a black Nokia flip phone. Texts were character limited and cost 25 cents both to send and to receive. I still have it, along with its...
Don’t Judge a Person Unless You’ve Walked in Their Shoes
We assume we know people’s lives by the mere glimpses they show us. We think we know someone based on the brief encounters we exchange on our way to work or when we bump into each other. The...
Got Resiliency?
Much research has been done on the topic of this series of posts in February 2021. Scientists want to understand how people who go through sometimes horrific events often overcome adversity and...
The Re-Emerging of Cara
It’s been years since she broke free from being either goddess of the universe or scum of the earth – usually the latter more than the former. On one hand, she was bestowed extravagant devotion...
Can I Have Childhood Trauma If I Had a Happy Childhood?
Yes, yes you can. It took me a really long time to accept this, but it’s true. You can have all kinds of happy memories from your childhood, you can recognize that you always had enough to eat,...
Life is Beautiful
In the early morning hours of a winter’s day in 1944, Corrie Ten Boom stood in line for roll call at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp. A middle-aged woman, she and her family had been arrested by...
Meredith Grey and the Monkey Bars
When I was little, I used to love swinging across the monkey bars. I found a consistent fluidity, allowing for an area of growth and movement, but a sense of security the next rung would always...
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”.
