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Out-of-Control Childhood Can Lead to Controlling Behaviors Now
Nobody likes people who are controlling. Sometimes we all have to put up with controlling people because we have no one else to support us, or we need money, or, most often, because trauma trained us to tolerate...
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These Triggers Are Connected With Neglect in Childhood
Trauma in childhood is caused by more than "abuse." Being neglected -- by parents or by your peers and community - can be just as damaging to well-being. In this 4-video compilation I share some of my most popular...
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Non-Romantic Maladaptive Attachment Can Fixate You on Anyone
LIMERENCE HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS "an involuntary potentially inspiring state of adoration and attachment to a limerent object (LO) involving intrusive and obsessive thoughts, feelings and behaviors -- from euphoria to...
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Trauma Healing Requires ACTION
If you’ve ever tried to get help for struggles in your life related to childhood trauma – you may have been told, pressured even, to spend time and money talking about the past – even if you’ve talked about the past...
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Remove These Common Roadblocks to Trauma Healing
Be careful what you *believe* about Complex PTSD, because a lot of information out there is outdated and outright WRONG. When you read or seek professional help, I urge you to be very THOUGHTFUL about what information...
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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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