Over the past ten years, CPTSD Warrior has grown from a YouTube channel and blog into something much larger than I could have ever imagined. What started as one survivor speaking about complex trauma has become a community of people who are learning, healing, and supporting one another. Today, I want to share something important. […]
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InsightsI can’t quite put my finger on it right now, but recently, I’ve noticed that I’ve changed. It’s like I’ve come to another level of healing. At least, that’s what it feels like. I feel like I suddenly have this new awareness. This new ability to see things from a different perspective. This extra space
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I’m in the process of finding a new therapist. I had yet another bad experience with a mental health professional after seeing and sticking with this therapist for 14 months. I say “sticking with” because three times (counting this time) during the 14 months I wanted to stop seeing her and actually actively began looking
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Sitting on my bed fighting the urge to climb under the covers and shut the world out. I have so much to do, but my body won’t cooperate. I sit here with these thoughts swirling through my head, but I can’t move. I’ve been getting things done in these random spurts of energy that don’t
I finally quit the job I have been on medical leave from, but a part of me made me hold onto it this long even though I knew I never wanted to go back there. We were able to uncover what that was about in a therapy session with my somatic/IFS therapist. It had to
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InsightsMy psychiatrist phoned me on Friday late in the day wanting an in person appointment on the following Monday. We have only had phone appointments, which quite frankly I wish they would keep for us cptsd warriors who don’t feel safe yet. Who’s with me on this?? We should always have the option. Not only
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Whenever I get this particular feeling in the pit of my stomach, I literally feel like I’ve done something wrong. I begin to think back to things that I have done throughout the day that could have caused this feeling to occur. This feeling is different though. This feeling isn’t from something that happened today.
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InsightsThis can happen in romantic relationships involving a narcissist, but it can also happen in family relationships with narcissistic family members. One day you can be one of the favored children, the next you are being scapegoated and demoted to an unlovable child. I know, because it happened to me in my narcissistic family. I
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InsightsToday, August 1st, 2021, is the final day to watch the Wisdom of Trauma Movie Rebroadcast featuring Dr. Gabor Maté, + ALL the ‘Talks on Trauma’ expert teaching series! This is an important film that highlights how trauma impacts our world and what we can do about it as a society. In this movie Dr.
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