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  • Continued: Trauma and its Effect on the Brain: Beyond Fight, Flight and Freeze States…
  • Not normal but typical. Four words that guided my healing from CPTSD.
  • Trauma Can Make You Feel Broken: Understanding CPTSD and Why You Feel This Way.

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cptsdfoundation.org /2 weeks ago

Continued: Trauma and its Effect on the Brain: Beyond Fight, Flight and Freeze States…

My name’s Lizzy, and I’m a trauma survivor. I write to spread awareness of what it feels like to live after traumatic events and abuse. I know because I’m living this life. A life...

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cptsdfoundation.org /1 week ago

Not normal but typical. Four words that guided my healing from CPTSD.

   For most of my life, I described my childhood as merely difficult. It was a sanitizing word, one that painted over abuse, neglect, and chaos with a veneer of normalcy. To the ou...

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cptsdfoundation.org /2 weeks ago

Trauma Can Make You Feel Broken: Understanding CPTSD and Why You Feel This Way.

“Why do I feel so broken?” For years, that quiet question followed me. I felt uneasy in safe places, drawn to familiar pain, and disconnected from people who genuinely cared. I did...

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cptsdfoundation.org /1 month ago

The Rock and the Hard Place

I only found the “language” surrounding CPTSD very late in my life. Learning the reason for my decades of dysfunction and brokenness was my fiftieth birthday present from the unive...

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cptsdfoundation.org /2 weeks ago

Amplifying Hope 

Surviving the invisible epidemic of emotional and psychological abuse On November 19th 2023, I answered a call from an unknown female who, in 30 minutes, would blindside and oblite...

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cptsdfoundation.org /1 month ago

From Survival to Connection: Supporting Adult Survivors of Adverse Childhood Experiences

Recently, I received a message from a podcast listener requesting a special episode addressed to people who live with and/or love someone with CPTSD. His message highlighted the im...

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cptsdfoundation.org /6 days ago

The abuse without bruises: How emotional harm in childhood is overlooked

In August of 1992 I ran from my home on East Goldsborough Street to the local police station. I arrived sweating, panting, my face red with fury and with the oppressive Northwest I...

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cptsdfoundation.org /1 month ago

Who is Your “Person”? It takes a village to raise a child… But What About Adults?

It’s important to recognize that you cannot go through life as easily on your own. My name is Elizabeth, and I’m a survivor of child abuse and horrific trauma. Healing from trauma...

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cptsdfoundation.org /2 days ago

Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Older Adults: The Enduring Impact of Unresolved Trauma on the Aging Process

One of the greatest misconceptions I encounter is that trauma belongs in the past. However, trauma is not only a historical experience but is a psychobiological process that influe...

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cptsdfoundation.org /1 week ago

What if I am Damaged for Good?

 What if I will never heal from trauma? What if my nervous system is so damaged from childhood trauma that no amount of therapy and practice will reteach it a sense of safety in pl...

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cptsdfoundation.org /1 month ago

In Fight Mode: When Survival Looks Like Defiance

Trigger Warning: This post contains references to traumatic childhood experiences, including recalled memories of abuse and descriptions of the author’s trauma responses. Please ta...

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cptsdfoundation.org /3 days ago

The Bridge You Thought Was Gone

There is a particular kind of quiet that follows trauma. Not the peaceful kind or the kind you choose. But the kind that settles in when something inside you has gone still… or far...

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cptsdfoundation.org /1 week ago

Survival Mode & Perimenopause

I’m sharing this not only as a practitioner, but as a woman who has lived this. As someone with a history of trauma—and someone who has committed deeply to her own inner work—I rec...

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cptsdfoundation.org /1 month ago

Who Do You Look Up To? The Importance of Role Models for Survivors of Child Abuse

My name is Elizabeth, and I am a survivor of sexual abuse and trauma. I endured things, terrible things when I was growing up. I was just a young sprout, but my lack of years and s...

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psychologytoday.com /1 month ago

The Stories Trauma Therapists Carry in Silence

Trauma therapists often carry an invisible emotional weight while helping others heal. Here's how they can take care of themselves and their clients.

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cptsdfoundation.org /1 week ago

The Trauma Survivor Who Can Handle Crisis but Not Rest

Some trauma survivors look strongest during emergencies and most unsettled when life gets quiet. That is not contradiction. It is conditioning.

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cptsdfoundation.org /1 month ago

The Body Knew Before I Did

How I accidentally built a healing practice without knowing what I was healing from In 1987, I walked into a job interview in Montreal and couldn’t say my own name. I was twenty-tw...

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psychologytoday.com /1 month ago

Why Trauma Survivors May See Themselves in Dominic Fike's Story

For some survivors, creativity becomes one way of transforming adversity into meaning, connection, and purpose.

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cptsdfoundation.org /2 weeks ago

Developmental Trauma Series: 3 – Why Insight Alone Does Not Heal Developmental Trauma

There I was standing in the hallway of the emergency room after my mother’s latest suicide attempt. This time, she had taken a knife up and down her arms, and for good measure, jum...

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cptsdfoundation.org /1 month ago

“I’ve Forgotten How to Live a Normal Life”: Understanding Functional Freeze After Trauma

When basic tasks drain all your energy and what seems easy for others feels impossible for you, this isn’t weakness. It’s your nervous system protecting you. Here’s why it happens...

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cptsdfoundation.org /1 month ago

When Sobriety Exposes Trauma

A survivor-centered explanation of why detox and sobriety can feel psychologically harder when trauma has been muted for years. The piece separates physical stabilization from trau...

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cptsdfoundation.org /3 weeks ago

Trauma and Its Effect on the Brain

Have you ever been curious about why, and how trauma survivors react to events, and other situations differently from others? As a trauma survivor, I started questioning why I am t...

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cptsdfoundation.org /1 month ago

Freedom To Feel

There is a quiet longing many recovering from CPTSD carry: the desire to feel free again. Not to be overwhelmed by emotion, not to shut it down, but to feel without fear of what mi...

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cptsdfoundation.org /1 week ago

Behaviors Caused By Trauma

You Can’t Run Away From Your Own Head Human beings are like an iceberg. We go through life sharing only the pieces of ourselves that we want people to see. But there’s so much more...

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