Category: Complex Ptsd Recovery

Complex Ptsd Recovery
Linda Meredith

Complex Ptsd & Recognising the Abandonment Wound

Self-abandonment cycle refers to a pattern of behavior where individuals neglect their own needs, emotions, and values in order to please others or to conform to societal expectations. This cycle can lead to feelings of low self-worth, depression, and anxiety.

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Complex Ptsd Recovery
Linda Meredith

8 Signs of Abandonment Depression

I never believed that I have depression in the normal sense of what’s regarded as depression. I’m not somebody who’s walked around going, oh I’m depressed and I really feel it in my body. For me in the beginning the depression just used to knock me out. I’d be getting ready to go and exercise and I’d wake up with one gym shoe and suck on and go, what happened? There’s videos of all the things that I’ve done along the way to get to where I am today.

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Complex Ptsd Recovery
Linda Meredith

The 5 domains of Post Traumatic Growth

It’s normal with complex trauma recovery for us to query what is my one next step? We often are aware of symptoms we’re experiencing and can be missing the language we need to move forward.

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Complex Ptsd Recovery
Linda Meredith

Intergenerational Trauma

Intergenerational Trauma is also known as Transgenerational Trauma or historical trauma and relates to trauma being passed down from generation to generation. The following infographics and articles will explain how this happens. 

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Business and Trauma
Linda Meredith

Research Discovers Coaching on par with Therapy

A recent article on Psychology Today blog by Myra Altman Ph.D. discusses the peer-reviewed study just accepted for publication at the Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science.

The new research shows 58 percent of people who started care with symptoms of depression experienced clinical recovery after at least one session with a certified coach and saw a 76 percent increase in their well-being overall.

These findings build upon our previous published research showing the more sessions people participated in, the more their well-being improved.

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Complex Ptsd Recovery
Linda Meredith

Anger and Complex Trauma

Anger and Complex trauma. It’s not black and white nor is it cut and dried. It’s depth varies as do the trauma responses.

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Complex Ptsd Recovery
Linda Meredith

Normal Marriage Problems?

Many women believe they are having normal marriage problems when they are not.
You see, we were spiritually and culturally discipled to accept immaturity, pride, and negative, chronic, and unrepentant behavior as “common issues” in a relationship.

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Complex Ptsd Recovery
Linda Meredith

Strategies for Coping with Stress

Recently, I came across a number of infographics with lots of different ideas, coping strategies and calming strategies and thought it’d be great to put them in one place for a handy reference.

Choose one or two before you get stressed, practice them when you aren’t stressed and you’ll begin retraining your brain. Don’t try and do them when you’re overly stressed as with complex ptsd you may well trigger the brain further by introducing something new. Consistency is key.

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Complex Ptsd Recovery
Linda Meredith

Identifying Toxic Shame

Beginning to recognise Toxic Shame when we have complex trauma isn’t easy. It’s been our normal for so long it takes a concerted effort to start the recovery process. The good news is we can do this!

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