Grounding Techniques for CPTSD
By ngutierrez82
- Jun, 23, 2019
I’ve been posting a lot lately on CPTSD, setting boundaries, and how our socialization to maintain trauma bonds with folx that have deeply hurt us is strong as hell. As we know, hurt people hurt people. Wounding is transferred onto …
Culture in Therapy
- Jun, 15, 2019
In therapy as clients, and also as clinicians, I find it is necessary for us to be cognizant of culture in our work. As clinicians, we can sometimes make the mistake of “prescribing” or suggesting clients do things that bring …
Interrupt your Fight/Flight
- Jun, 06, 2019
Our Autonomic Nervous system consists of our sympathetic nervous system (fight/flight/freeze/fright/Flag/Faint response) and parasympathetic nervous system (in charge of conserving energy, relaxing our bodies, slowing our heart rates).
When we’re going through our day feeling triggered, on hyper-alert, and regularly …
Parts we create to survive Trauma
- 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 …
Are You Afraid of Conflict?
- May, 02, 2019
Having conflict with others can feel incredibly scary. When we’re raised in verbally, emotionally, physically, and psychologically abusive environments we are told to be obedient otherwise we will experience punishment. Punishment may come in different forms- parental neglect or abandonment, …
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 …
I’m Not Okay
- Mar, 21, 2019
It’s hard to utter these words to yourself and others. Just even the mere thought and admittance of this can feel deeply scary and shattering.
We want to show the world we are functioning. We want to show the world …
Ancestral Trauma
- Feb, 28, 2019
We carry what has happened to our ancestors within our bodies and interact with the world unconsciously carrying them into spaces with us. What is left unresolved in families continues to be passed down generationally. We carry the pain of …
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 …