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Demoralization: How to Resuscitate The GOOD In You & Recover Faith In The Future
To be “Demoralized” means to be deflated of all that makes you strong – to have too many bad and discouraging things happen to you until you lose your mental clarity, and lose your drive to bring good into the world....
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Crisis-Stage Codependency: How You Know It's Happening
Codependency may feel like a personality quirk but it can grow much, much worse. Codependency can snowball into a crisis-level distortion of thinking that -- unless you heal -- drags down your life (and the lives of...
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Anxious Attachment Style: Overcome Your Urge to MERGE and CLING in Early Relationships
People neglected or abandoned in childhood often have an anxious attachment style in adulthood, growing frantic while dating a new person to extract security and connection, before they get to know the other person....
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Narcissistic Traits vs. 'REAL' Narcissism
Many people traumatized as children show TRAITS of narcissism. Part if this is learned from narcissistic parents, and part develops to compensate for trauma wounds. In this "best of" compilation I bring together my...
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Heal Your Avoidant Attachment Style Before It Drains Your Life of Love and Meaning
People are triggering, especially if you who were traumatized in the past. One way to manage your triggers is through avoidance -- living in isolation, holding loved ones at arms length, or going through the motions...
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Heal Chaos and Overwhelm: DECLUTTER Every Part of Your Life
A cluttered living space is one common sign a person has been affected by past trauma. But Complex-PTSD often manifests as a similar kind of chaos and overwhelm in your thinking, your relationships, your emotions and...
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The EMPTINESS You Feel Is Trying to TELL YOU Something
I received several letters this week (the fifth week of lockdown) about the ache of emptiness that's getting hard to escape. Is real love even possible for people with CPTSD? Here's my answer.
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Brain Dysregulation: How to Know If It's Happening (and What to Do About It)
Adults who experienced early trauma are prone to dysregulation of the brain and nervous system, especially in response to stress. Dysregulation, in turn, can trigger (or exacerbate) depression, anxiety, illness,...
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Trauma Wounds FLARE UP When You Begin Dating (Especially When They're Wonderful)
When you meet someone really wonderful, do you fall into consuming anxiety about whether it will work out -- to the extent that it damages any hope of having a relationship? This is not uncommon, and is one...
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Trauma Is a Multiplier for Isolation & Loneliness: Here's What to Do
In the post-pandemic age of the internet, more people than ever are isolated and LONELY. People who have lived through trauma, especially in childhood, may have suffered neurological changes that make connecting even...
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Do You Procrastinate MORE Than Most People? Here's What to Do
Getting things done is a HUGE problem for many people, especially with the neurological effects of trauma complicating your ability to focus, to maintain consistent energy levels, and to handle emotional upsets that...
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These Triggers Are “The Tell” That You were Neglected and Ostracized As a Child
Abandonment triggers can get activated when you feel rejected, overlooked, left behind and ostracized: If you grew up physically or emotionally neglected, abandonment wounds may damage relationships and professional...
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