Parts we create to survive Trauma
By ngutierrez82
- Jun, 04, 2019
Your depression, addiction, anxiety, reckless risk taking, self loathing, inner-critic, suicidal ideations are not character defects or psychopathology. They’re strategic, sophisticated coping strategies that were created to survive past painful traumas.
The world has a way of telling us all …
Understanding CPTSD & PTSD
- Jun, 04, 2019
Let us talk about the difference between PTSD and Complex PTSD. It’s assumed that everyone that has endured trauma has PTSD. Though there is a distinction.
PTSD relates to sensory flashbacks that a person experiences when they are met with …
Intergenerational Trauma
- May, 27, 2019
Intergenerational trauma aka Ancestral trauma. In my style of understanding and working through trauma, I believe it’s important to also consider the multigenerational process of passed down pain, patterns, attachment, ways of resolving/avoiding conflict. It’s important to consider how complex …
Intentional Living
- May, 27, 2019
The more I read and the more I learn it seems living intentionally is at the core of this healing journey. Mastering regulating our bodies so we spend less time triggered and activated, more time reflecting on who we are …
What is your relationship to Self?
- May, 05, 2019
When we’re finding ourselves unforgiving of others when they’re unintentionally hurt us, it may be helpful to also look within and see if this is also how we treat and see ourselves. Remember- as within so without, as above so …
Avoid Perfectionism
- Apr, 03, 2019
Do not allow your journey of healing to be shadowed with striving for perfection. Do not! It’s important we not conflate perfection with strength, right, good, great, or progress. That we strive to be great, not to be perfect. That …
Dealing with Sexual Trauma
- Mar, 31, 2019
Unwitnessed and unseen wounding of sexual abuse can manifest in these ways. Filled with Shame. Confusion. Denial. Anger. Numbness. The world in which you knew it is over and we grieve the sense of loss of a safe world. You …
Shame and Trauma
- May, 16, 2016
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Unexpressed Emotion in Body and Trauma
- Apr, 05, 2016
Unexpressed Emotion Lives in the Body.
Sometimes we don’t have the words to consciously name or connect with emotions we are feeling. These feelings can continue to live within us until we begin to validate their experience and give them …
Trauma and Psychoanalysis
- Jan, 27, 2016
As I near the completion of my two year psychoanalytic trauma studies program, I reflect on the understanding I have gained of how important dissociation plays a role in trauma and the human psyche. Dissociation can be understood as the …