Tag: certified trauma recovery coach

Raw & Real: CPtsd
Linda Meredith

I am a Loner

I AM A LONER WITH THOUSANDS OF FRIENDS. I have always felt alone, but not lonely. This feeling began when I was very young, and it was hard to be with. I didn’t have the tools, the knowledge, or the understanding to articulate the emptiness, so began the titled vision of my aloneness.

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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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Book Reviews
Linda Meredith

Complex Ptsd: Surviving to Thriving

“I had literally been searching for decades to questions I could never frame. Walking through life was a continual nagging that my life was being held back, that I wasn’t able to achieve the dreams I had. Even when those dreams were seemingly run of the mill. To be a wife, mum and raise a healthy family. When I first read this book I shed tears of pure relief. Finally, someone understood what I could never put into words.”

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Trauma Coaching
Linda Meredith

Admin Basics 101

You have been developing the expertise to coach.

You know that you can do that well and now you have to set up a business structure in order to have a coaching business.

Unlike being in an established organization, there is no IT team, no HR department, no administrative support to ensure that you have everything you need in your office in order to smoothly run your business. In addition, you are potentially running a business that may be international in nature, with the technology we now have available and the interconnectedness of the Internet!

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Complex Ptsd Recovery
Linda Meredith

Trauma Coaching and boundaries

With the new skills we’ve learned in our course and certification, how do we as new coaches set boundaries for ourselves in stepping in with “coach skills” for our personal relationships?

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Complex Ptsd Recovery
Linda Meredith

Narcissim: the Reality

“The things narcissistic type people do creates ill health in us because it keeps us disconnected from our inner strength, our internal power. In fact, they want that strength and power for themselves. It’s what first attracted them to us.”

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Raw & Real: CPtsd
Linda Meredith

Raw & Real Survivor to Thriver

My healing journey began in 2016 after a terrible DV incident that changed my life and that of my family’s forever. I was thrown into being a single mum of 4 kids and I started drinking even more heavily than I already did.

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Parenting
Linda Meredith

A Note of Encouragement

When we are on this healing journey, it’s so hard to know when we are doing it ‘right’ or when we are hitting a dead end and need to back away to go back to the last fork in the road. It’s also hard to not give ourselves a super hard time when we feel like we keep doing these U turns and are feeling exhausted.

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