Blog - Healing from CPTSD

Watch “Black & White Thinking with CPTSD” on YouTube

Aug 21, 2019adminCPTSD Recoveryacon, aconm, black and white thinking, childhood PTSD, childhood trauma, complex ptsd, complex trauma, cptsd, developmental trauma, donm, narcissistic mother

https://youtu.be/Bs31HWQiODA

Watch “Update on the Job Situation” on YouTube

Aug 20, 2019adminCPTSD Recoverychildhood PTSD, childhood trauma, complex post traumatic stress disorder, complex ptsd, complex trauma, cptsd, developmental trauma, trauma

https://youtu.be/nCxyAonWRhA

The Push Pull Dynamic Within

Aug 13, 2019admin1 Commentchildhood trauma, cptsd, CPTSD Recovery, Uncategorizedchildhood PTSD, childhood trauma, complex post traumatic stress disorder, complex ptsd, cptsd, developmmental trauma

I’m odd. I want to be close to other people, and can sometimes allow myself to be. I also want to be alone, and as soon as somebody seems to want to spend time with me, I revolt. Why do I do this? The people that I trusted the most betrayed me, Stabbed me in […]

Watch “The Push Pull Dynamic Within” on YouTube

Aug 13, 2019adminCPTSD Recoverychildhood PTSD, childhood trauma, complex trauma, cptsd, developmental trauma

https://youtu.be/TF05vHz-KMw

Complex PTSD – Bringing the Past into the Present

Aug 8, 2019adminCPTSD Recovery, Uncategorizedchildhood PTSD, childhood trauma, complex ptsd, cptsd, developmental trauma, emotional flashback, emotional flashback management, emotions, noting, triggers

I keep having these thoughts that I need to stop obsessing over my family. Then I remind myself that I’m not obsessing, I have Complex PTSD (cptsd). The nature of cptsd is that our traumatic past keeps a hold on us, not the other way around. It’s not that we can’t let go of the […]

I’m Having an Emotional Flashback

Jul 29, 2019adminCPTSD Recovery, Uncategorizedchildhood PTSD, childhood trauma, complex ptsd, complex trauma, cptsd, developmental trauma, emotional flashback, emotional flashback management, neurogenesis, neuroplasticity, rewire your brain, triggers

Not feeling so good this morning. I feel less than and like I’m not good enough. I’m having an emotional flashback. I always try to figure out what triggered me to feel this way. It helps me to understand myself and my cptsd better. Before I started feeling this way I was telling myself that […]

What is a Trigger?

Jul 25, 2019adminCPTSD Recovery, triggers, UncategorizedCPTSD Recovery, emotional flashback, inner critic, trigger

Triggers are something that reminds you of your trauma and causes you to feel the emotions you felt at the time of your trauma. This is called an emotional flashback. Triggers can be a person, place, thing, event, smell, taste, sound, feeling, the look on a person’s face, the way a person expresses themselves, etc. […]

Watch “I Didn’t Get The Job :(” on YouTube

Jul 20, 2019adminCPTSD Recovery, Uncategorizedacon, adult child of a narcissistic mother, childhood PTSD, complex ptsd, cptsd, developmental trauma, donm

https://youtu.be/_-XBrqC-1zE

I Need A Distraction From My Thoughts & Work Isn’t Doing It

Jul 18, 2019adminc-ptsd, childhood trauma, children of narcissistic mothers, complex ptsd, complex traumaboredom, cptsd, distraction, work

After almost five years of not working, can you believe I am being driven to boredom by this job. I sit here waiting for the phone to ring. When the boss comes out of his office I try to look busy. I try to look like I wasn’t just looking at social media, or playing […]

How Writing About Negative Experiences Helps You Move Past Them

Jul 17, 2019admin1 CommentUncategorized

This article is what inspired me to come back to my blog and to write again. https://medium.com/thrive-global/how-writing-about-negative-experiences-helps-you-move-past-them-da604db246f3