Tag: healing from complex ptsd

Raw & Real: CPtsd
Linda Meredith

Do I have a Lack of Dopamine?

I’ve been searching for answers to my depression, which I didn’t believe I even had during my anxiety days, for a very long time. Recently I came into an awareness my brain had significantly healed. I was only able to recognise this for 2 reasons.

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Complex Ptsd Recovery
Linda Meredith

Validation & Complex Ptsd

Did you know there are different levels to being validated? Me either! I went researching and discovered how we can work it in with our different layers of healthy friendships and trust too!

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Complex Ptsd Recovery
Linda Meredith

Unlocking Your One Next Step

Raw & Real: I can’t begin to count how many times I’ve had no idea which way to turn to take my one next step throughout my recovery journey. Then there’s the other side of the coin where I’m moving forward in recovery and BAM! CRASH! I unknowingly spiral downwards and can’t get out of bed for some unknown reason. Frustrating much? Yes!

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Raw & Real: CPtsd
Sherry Yuan Hunter

Healing from a Breakdown

There are many plateaus and many turning points. Quite a few sliding backward phases, which were super hard to deal with. But the OMG I’VE MADE IT TO THE NEXT STAGE UP, are moments to celebrate.

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Complex Ptsd Recovery
Linda Meredith

Raw & Real: Changing Generations

I want to encourage you to never give up! Being the first generation consciously breaking the generational chains it’s hard work, and worth it.

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Complex Ptsd Recovery
Linda Meredith

Taking things Personally CPtsd

Our core path through all of this is the opposite of what we have known all our life. Throughout our life there has been a lack of experiencing giving and receiving love. Complex Trauma begins to heal effectively as we learn to love our choices, our life, those around us etc irrespective of how it compares to our life goals and dreams. Bring authentic love back into your heart for yourself, fill your bucket of love up, and give from there. Our internal system will thank us for bringing love back into ourselves. The love drives out fear and builds courage for the road ahead. Choose love despite our past. Love wins.

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Complex Ptsd Recovery
Sherry Yuan Hunter

The Vicious Trigger Cycle Dance: “Why Don’t You Just…?”

One of the most triggering questions in the world is the innocently well intentioned “Why don’t you just…?” question-suggestion-judgment. It feels like an attack when it is actually meant as a suggestion. Inevitably, it’s asked by someone who does not understand the struggle I am feeling, the tempest inside, or the helplessness that is just bubbling under the surface.

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Short & Sweet
Linda Meredith

I’m Busy. I’ve got Magical Sh*t to do.

You know what this says to me, get out of my way; I am breaking free.
I think I have reached a point where I finally realise that I am not a robot and there are these things called emotions, that everything is not black and white, I can define the relationship I have with anyone, there is this thing called shame that holds me back and down and chokes the life out of me.

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Complex Ptsd Recovery
Linda Meredith

Answering the “Should I…?” Question

In our Facebook Peer Support Group, I see a lot of us asking “Should I…?” questions of each other. This is actually one of the reasons why being in a peer group is so great. We are talking with people who ‘get’ what we are going through and collectively have tried a lot of different things.

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