Blog - Healing from CPTSD

People only bring up your past when they are threatened by your present. When I moved back to my hometown it was something I had wanted from the moment I moved away. I couldn’t wait to move back and get a job teaching in my hometown. Prior to the interview I noticed that the human […]

Repressed Memories of Possible Child Sexual Abuse

Jan 4, 2018Poking Holesc-ptsd, child sexual abuse, childhood trauma, complex post traumatic stress disorder, complex trauma, cptsd, partial memory, repressed memories, sexual abuse

*Potential Trigger* What are Repressed Memories? When we are very young children an event such as sexual abuse can be so traumatic to us that we will bury all memory of the abuse ever happening. It never stays buried though. These memories will lay dormant until a time that our brains feel we are in […]

Partial Memory of Child Sexual Abuse

Jan 3, 2018Poking Holes3 Commentschild sexual abuse, complex ptsd, complex trauma, cptsd, crime of opportunity, csa, daughter of a narcissistic mother, donm, incest, partial memory, repressed memories

*Potential Trigger* I have a partial memory, which I dismissed from my mind the first few times I had it. In this memory, I am small and wearing a nightgown. That’s what us girls wore to bed to sleep in when we were little. It is like a long sleeved flannel dress. In this memory […]