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It’s When The Terror ENDS That Trauma Survivors Sometimes Break Down
Living through a traumatic childhood takes extraordinary survival skills. You shut down, act tough, dance around to make other people happy, even when it means losing yourself. Sometimes the pain of all you’ve been...
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Some People Are Not Wired to Experience Romantic Love
Most of us who have ever had a relationship have fallen love, and most of us have also had someone not love us back. But what if you’re with someone who WANTS to be with you and loves you, but they say they don’t feel...
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The Great Love You Crave Is Not a Fantasy
Your Childhood PTSD symptoms have likely created a lifetime of problems in relationships -- choosing unavailable people, clinging to bad relationships or avoiding love altogether. But the reason you long for a real...
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Early Trauma Can Make It Hard to Connect and Commit (4-Video Compilation)
People who lived through trauma in childhood often develop an "avoidant" attachment style, which can be hard for their partners who may crave reassurance, commitment, and frequent expressions of affection that don't...
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Is It Cheating to Take a Job with Boundary-less Employer?
Charming and powerful employers have a knack for tempting people who are desperate for a big break in their career. They can offer money, fame, and connections that you might never access again. But if the price is to...
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Don’t Let Wounds of Neglect Trample Any Possibility of Love
t’s common in our culture for people to sleep together almost as soon as they meet. And people act like that’s fun and easy, and only foolish people can’t handle it, or think it should be avoided, in favor of...
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Don't Let CPTSD Block You From Becoming Your Full and REAL SELF
Trauma in childhood can leave with obvious problems, but also a subtle tendency to hide your authentic self, and to avoid reaching for big goals that are important to you. In this video I share common reasons why...
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You're Madly In Love But Pretend to Be "Just a Friend" (4-Video Compilation)
Limerence is the name for an obsessive infatuation that becomes more like an addiction to someone who cannot or will not be with you. It's especially common in people who were emotionally neglected as children, who...
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Childhood Trauma Corrupts Your Thinking and Pushes You Into Danger
No matter how much you pull yourself together after a childhood full of abuse and neglect, the injury of trauma will TRY to suck you back into horrible dynamics of your childhood without you even realizing it. Your...
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Unhealed Trauma Compels You To Cling to Horrible People
There are two terrible ways that self-centered parents can wound you in the way you have relationships – and in particular, when they didn’t take an interest or support the unique little person that you were, and they...
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Evidence Shows Only a Few Treatments Are Effective
If you've tried to get help for problems related to Childhood PTSD, you've probably tried many approaches to healing, and chances are, none of them really worked. In this video I teach about common approaches to...
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Healing Trauma Changes Your Relationship to Money (4-Video Compilation)
Growing up poor, abused or neglected can leave you struggling in adulthood to develop a good career and earn what you are worth. In this 4-video compilation I share four of my most popular videos about trauma, work...
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