Category: Therapy & Healing

Discover therapeutic approaches and healing practices for CPTSD. Insights and tools to support your journey toward emotional recovery and resilience.

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The Dark Side of “Inner Child” Work

When Healing Turns Trendy: The Complicated Reality of Inner Child Work With everything being marketed today, trauma, and all its little tid-bits, has become a playground for self-help gurus. Everywhere you look, attachment theory is being thrown around in relationships like a catchy meme, distilled down to little personality labels or quick-fix advice. I touched […]

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CPTSD Healing: Why ‘Cured’ Isn’t the Goal

Can CPTSD Be Cured? There’s a common question I get when talking about living with CPTSD: can you be cured? First, I always want to be clear about something in my replies. I’m not a therapist, and I don’t have any clinical training. I make sure people know that when they reach out. What I […]

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Why Trauma & CPTSD Can Affect Your Memory

Realizing My Memory Gaps There’s something that’s really stood out to me as I’ve reached this point in my healing journey: how bad my memory actually is. I didn’t fully realize it at first. It only became obvious when other people started pointing it out. The missed details. Forgotten conversations. Moments where I nodded along, […]

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Healing the Distance Between Me and My Mom

The Part of My Childhood That Still Hits the Hardest I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the relationship I had with my parents while I was growing up. And the part that’s always been the one that hits me the hardest is the one with my mom. Not because she did anything wrong, far […]

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The Hidden Pain Points of CPTSD Healing

Looking for the Pain Point: A Marketer’s Approach to Healing As someone who’s spent most of his life working in advertising and marketing, I’ve been trained to look for the “pain point.” What’s the thing underneath the thing? What’s actually driving the behavior, the resistance, the mess? CPTSD Healing Comes With Endless Pain Points And […]

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