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Trying to Please Others Makes NO ONE Happy (4-Video Compilation)
If you grew up with an abusive or neglectful parent – and especially if you were the oldest child -- you may have learned to dance around and do everything in your power to make Mom stop being sad. You may have erased...
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Why It's So Hard to Face Reality About People Destroying Your Life
There’s this strange thing that happens to families when one member falls into destructive addiction. We know that addicts’ thinking gets distorted, and they fall into denial and lying and blaming and sometimes...
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No Sense of Self Comes From Childhood Neglect
A chaotic and neglectful family life can deprive a child of forming an identity – not just who they are, but what they like, and what they might like to pursue in their lives. In adulthood, you may try to fill this...
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CPTSD and The Curse of Loneliness: How to Heal
There’s a symptom of trauma that is common in everyone, but it’s almost universal for people who were abused or neglected as children. It's a haunting sense of loneliness, and not fitting in, that can make any effort...
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Heal These Trauma Wounds and Watch Your Productivity Soar
Have you ever struggled to get even basic things done, like get to work on time, put wet laundry in the dryer, or make a phone call? Everyone procrastinates sometimes, but for people who were abused or neglected in...
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Male/Female Friendships Are Tested When One of You Gets A Partner
If you're a woman and you say your "close male friend" is just a friend, one test of your true feelings is how you feel when he gets into a relationship, and how she feels about you. A lot of people will gaslight the...
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Some CPTSD Partners Can’t Read the Signs You Need Support
A history of abuse and neglect can make a person crave extra emotional support. But when both partners have CPTSD, communication can be fraught and feelings of abandonment can turn into hours-long processing sessions....
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Stop Agreeing to Stay Vague, Undefined & Unfufilled!
If you had trauma in childhood, you may find yourself feeling that you have to hide how you feel in a dating relationship, and pretend you're "fine" when in fact you feel manipulated and hurt. Maybe you fear you'll...
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CPTSD Overloads Your Nervous System (4-Video Compilation)
One in three people (and even more among people with CPTSD) report that most days they feel completely overwhelmed -- emotionally, mentally and in terms of all they have to do in a day. Just about everyone has lost at...
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The Price of Losing (or Keeping) Hurtful People in Your Life
It’s natural to want a loving connection with your own parents. When one or both of them have either abused or neglected you, and they continue to undermine and criticize you, it can be hard to know what to do when...
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Childhood Neglect and the Attraction to People Who Don't Care About You
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Hint: It's Not Because You "Want to Re-Create Your Childhood"
People who were emotionally or physically neglected, or literally abandoned in childhood often find themselves getting left by partners over and over again. The reasons feel mysterious when it's happening to you. But...
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