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CPTSD and Emotional Flashbacks

June 13, 2019 No Comments

Most people are familiar with PTSD flashbacks — the kind we associate with combat veterans who are haunted by a war memory. With Chronic PTSD

How to FEEL HAPPIER When Childhood PTSD is Holding You Down

May 6, 2019 No Comments

Even though the abuse and neglect we endured in childhood is long over, the lingering effects can leave us depressed, anxious, negative and disempowered —

CPTSD, PTSD, Childhood PTSD and ACEs: What’s the Difference?

April 10, 2019 No Comments

Official diagnosis with Complex PTSD is a “hypothetical and experimental diagnosis” that for now, is lumped in with standard PTSD. But what’s the difference? And

Childhood PTSD and ANGER: Is it Ever a GOOD Thing?

April 4, 2019 No Comments

For me, one of the biggest burdens of my past was in my relationship to anger. When I was a kid, the adults in my

Childhood PTSD and The Guilty Feeling: When Is It Real?

March 28, 2019 No Comments

Abuse and neglect in childhood can leave a lifelong residue of guilt for things that were never our fault. This same fuzzy thinking can ALSO

Has Your Childhood Trauma Become Your Identity?

March 14, 2019 No Comments

For a lot of people with Childhood PTSD, the work we do to HEAL traumatic memories can become so consuming that we come to think

To Heal Childhood Abuse and Neglect: Talk Less. Write More.

March 11, 2019 No Comments

For a lot of people with Childhood PTSD, talking about traumatic memories can make symptoms worse — worse than if we were to do nothing

Brain Dysregulation is at the Root of Childhood PTSD: Learning to Re-Regulate Is Where Healing Begins

April 18, 2018 No Comments

To heal from Childhood PTSD, it’s crucial to understand the role of dysregulation, which is the underlying problem that most conventional treatments have never really