The Difficult Road to Intimacy: Living with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Those of us living with dissociative identity disorder most certainly live under the thumb of complex post-traumatic disorder. This piece is about learning to have a relationship despite having a traumatic past. Living with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) is very challenging. If affects every aspect of the lives...
Pulling it all together: Trauma-Informed Care
This month we have spent time exploring the basics of becoming trauma-informed. We’ve examined how mindfulness, neuroplasticity, and resiliency help form the tripod on which we begin to understand and defeat the consequences of surviving trauma. In this article, we are going to explore together how all the writings...
Tools to Build Resiliency and Aid in Healing from Complex Trauma
There is a vital part of healing survivors of adverse childhood experiences who now live with complex post-traumatic stress disorder can learn to help themselves. This piece of artillery is called resilience. Resiliency can help us overcome the life-altering effects of adverse childhood experiences or repeated trauma in adulthood....
The Introduction to a Trauma-Informed Care Series I Am Writing for the CPTSD Foundation
Read the originally posted version on the CPTSD Foundations website here. Click Here to Donate to the CPTSD Foundation...
Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Changes to the Human Brain
I’ve been writing for a wonderful organization the CPTSD Foundation. I was told I could share my pieces from their website. The CPTSD Foundation is dedicated to helping others. I’ll use a quote from their website that describes what they do best. “Here at CPTSD Foundation, we are taking...