I’ve noticed SO many people in my life, and in the Crappy Childhood Fairy member community, are feeling low-energy and a loss of focus. For some of us, it’s COVID or post-COVID symptoms (I’m just recovering from COVID myself). For others, it’s a lingering dullness associated with the extra isolation of the pandemic, or the …
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For people living with the effects of childhood trauma, “avoidance” can be a strategy to control CPTSD triggers by keeping oneself alone and isolated. “Covert avoidance” is my term for a secret kind of avoidance — living life as if you are engaged with it, but hiding from it. Watch the Video If that’s you, …
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You may have been told that you needed to “get in touch” with your anger to heal from childhood trauma. For some people, there is probably something freeing about that — for a while anyway.
You may have been told that you needed to “get in touch” with your anger to heal from childhood trauma. For some people, there is probably something freeing about that — for a while anyway.
You may have been told that you needed to “get in touch” with your anger to heal from childhood trauma. For some people, there is probably something freeing about that — for a while anyway.
You may have been told that you needed to “get in touch” with your anger to heal from childhood trauma. For some people, there is probably something freeing about that — for a while anyway.
You may have been told that you needed to “get in touch” with your anger to heal from childhood trauma. For some people, there is probably something freeing about that — for a while anyway.
You may have been told that you needed to “get in touch” with your anger to heal from childhood trauma. For some people, there is probably something freeing about that — for a while anyway.
Through no fault of their own, people with Childhood PTSD sometimes have overly strong emotional reactions: Something hurts your feelings, and you overreact. If you were abused or neglected as a kid, this might sound familiar. In fact, your emotional response can get so overblown that you live in fear that you’ll create problems if …
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What’s the biggest, most overlooked trigger for CPTSD symptoms? It’s one that happens all the time, and is a trigger for a lot of people. It’s hurrying. Hurrying is so normal. We all do it all the time. But when you have CPTSD, hurrying very easily turns into overwhelm, and though you may have come …
