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Common Symptoms You Didn't Know Are Trauma-Related (4-Video Compilation)
Some signs of trauma in your childhood are well known and easy to recognize in yourself. But some may be new to you. You may have gone through live feeling shame about your social awkwardness, or your behavior around...
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Too Much, Too Soon Ruins Your Chance to Get to Know Someone
The way people date in our culture is like throwing spaghetti at a wall. It’s driven by attraction, it goes very fast toward sex, and then (especially if you have CPTSD or attachment wounds because of neglect in your...
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Childhood PTSD Makes You Confuse “Wants” With “Boundaries”
A lot of people with Childhood PTSD were fed a steady diet of denial: Bad things things were happening and even if the parents weren’t DOING the bad things, they were incapable of noticing that something was terribly...
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CPTSD and The Sense of Disconnection
If you were neglected or abused when you were a kid, and you’ve struggled all your life to feel like you’re truly included in groups, this is a classic trauma symptom. Feeling like you don’t belong could happen to...
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Childhood Neglect and the Wound to Your Self-Esteem (4-Video Compilation)
When parents don't validate or support their children to confidently express themselves and solve life's problems, the wound to self-esteem can last a lifetime. Healing CPTSD involves recognizing and changing the...
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To Experience REAL Love, Heal the Wounds From Parents You Couldn’t Save
Here’s the hard truth about the wounds of CPTSD and trauma: Some of the things you didn’t GET as a child, can’t be fixed directly. We can’t go back in time. We can’t be children again to receive the proper love and...
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Attachment to Married or Long-Distance People Keeps You Always Alone
For people who were neglected as children, there’s this very damaging tendency to fall in love, but with the wrong people – those who are married, or so far away the whole relationship is online, or those who are not...
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CPTSD Triggers Set Off Three Types of Reactions: Here's What to Do
Intense emotional reactions are common in people who were abused or neglected in childhood. They are set off by triggers (stimuli that cause neurological dysregulation), which then prompt emotional reactions, which...
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Emotional Neglect and the Lure of Unavailable People (4-Video Compilation)
Growing up without adequate time and care from parents is a form of trauma. In adulthood, it can leave you prone to choosing partners who ALSO starve you for love and attention. Whether you're fallen for someone who...
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Painful Romantic Obsession Means It’s Time for Damage Control
It’s normal and common for people who were neglected or abandoned in childhood to fall deeply in love with people who make them feel abandoned and unwanted ALL over again. That’s what limerence is – an obsession or...
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Trying to “Save” The People You Date Helps No One
The “Savior Complex” is a horrible obsession, where instead of getting to know someone and seeing if there is harmony and potential for you as friends or as partners – you immediately imagine a version of them that is...
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Childhood Trauma Damaged Your Ability to Tell What's True
The trauma symptom that’s easy to recognize in other people, but SO hard to recognize in ourselves, is damaged perception. Childhood PTSD can make you unable to discern what is true and not true. You can't tell what...
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