Educational content about symptoms, responses, and the science behind complex trauma.
One of the most painful misunderstandings about freeze is the belief that it’s laziness. For people with CPTSD, freeze is not a lack of motivation. It’s a biological nervous system response to overwhelm. When you’re in freeze, it can look like you’re doing nothing. Tasks pile up. Motivation disappears. Even simple actions can feel impossibly […]
Freeze has been one of the hardest parts of my CPTSD healing journey. Not because it’s dramatic or obvious, but because it’s quiet. For many people living with CPTSD, the freeze response is one of the most misunderstood trauma responses. Freeze doesn’t always look like panic or crisis. Often, it looks like stillness. Numbness. Long
There are days when my biggest victory is simply noticing that I’ve gone into freeze. Not fixing it.Not pushing through it.Not turning it into a lesson or a checklist. Just noticing. Freeze has been one of the hardest parts of my healing journey because it’s so quiet. It doesn’t always look dramatic. It often looks
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Understanding CPTSD
What is CPTSD? CPTSD is a more severe form of PTSD. In his book, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving, Pete Walker lists the 5 most common features that differentiate CPTSD from PTSD. The 5 most common symptoms of CPTSD: emotional flashbacks toxic shame self abandonment a vicious inner/outer critic social anxiety CPTSD is a
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Understanding CPTSD
This new video, which I uploaded to my Youtube channel on November 20th, 2017, is a remake of a video I uploaded back in April 2016. I created the original video for my youtube channel with the same content, which I sourced from the Out of the Storm website. I highly recommend this website to anybody suffering
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Understanding CPTSDTopics Covered: Common Symptoms of CPTSD According to Pete Walker, Pete Walker’s 13 Steps for Emotional Flashback Management, and my steps to lessen the severity of a flashback in the absence of Pete Walker’s 13 steps. Resources: Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving Amazon Associates Disclosure Poking Holes is a participant
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Understanding CPTSD
