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CPTD Makes You Fill Your Life with Half-Relationships
One of the worst wounds a parent can inflict on a child is to not recognize them as distinct person -- not caring about their unique needs and their strengths, and not helping them to recognize these in themselves. If...
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Childhood Neglect and The High Cost of Trying to Be “Good Enough”
If you were neglected as a child, you may still be acting on a belief that if you could only be nice enough, your parents would have transformed into the loving, caring adults you needed. This coping mechanism helps...
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To Be a Light in Hard Times, Ask Yourself This (and Take Action on the Answers)
We are living through upside-down times. People who used to be friends attack each other over opinions they can barely express. Where we once had unity, we face division. It’s hard to know what you can trust, or whom...
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Overcoming Trauma is a Step by Step Process (4-Video Compilation)
When we talk about childhood trauma, so much of the focus goes onto the past -- what happened, and who did it. This is important, but healing can't really take place until you learn to focus on -- and CALM -- present...
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CPTSD Blinds You to Signs They Are TAKING From You But Don't Care
Something beautiful about people is that we are designed to delight in others – to connect and bond with them, and sometimes, to fall in love and give our whole heart. CPTSD can distort that natural process of finding...
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CPTSD Wounds Can Make You Worry Constantly, Even When Things Are Fine
Learning to love a partner is a huge and happy accomplishment for those of us who lived through abuse and neglect in childhood. Trauma wounds don't end in childhood; early abuse and neglect can leave us with...
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This Form of Writing Is Effective For Healing Trauma & Physical/Mental Health
If you had childhood trauma and you’re still relying on conventional approaches to heal, you may still be suffering with symptoms and losing hope that healing can happen. Talking about your traumatic experiences may...
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Putting All Your Focus On Another Person's Problems Robs You of a Happy Life
Some people can't focus on anyone but themselves. But others can't focus on themselves and instead become entirely focused on another person's problems -- their feelings, their shortcomings, and how unhappy they make...
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No, You're Not Obliged to Lend an Ear to Troubled "Friends"
A true friend is someone who cares about you, and is interested in you, and supports what is best for you. They don’t get to tell you what to do, they don’t get to mercilessly criticize you, and they don’t get to use...
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Neglectful Parents Condition You to Love Unavailable People
If you grew up without the attention and love of good parents, you may find yourself with symptoms of Complex-PTSD. One of the worst symptoms is an attraction to people who can’t give you attention or love. You see...
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When Past Trauma Has You Stuck, Do This
If you’re living with trauma-related symptoms from abuse and neglect in childhood, you’ve had to work extra hard for things in life that come more easily to other people. Complex PTSD (CPTSD) is a type of PTSD that...
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FIRST Get The Trauma Out Of Your Life, THEN Help Others
For people who grew up with abuse and neglect – it’s a HUGE DAY when you finally break free of that family of origin. You actually have a barrier up against their ability to keep hurting you. You're safe, and only way...
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