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Recent content by {hot~tea}

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    The Sleep Thread

    So I recently started a new job that has me on a drastically different sleep schedule. To help me wind down, I've been taking Magnesium supplements, chammomile tea, and I'll do a Tim Senesi Bedtime Yoga video from Youtube. And then I'll put on some singing bowl music and read until my eyes start...
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    Healthier lifestyle choices, nutritional healing, fitness, running, walking etc.

    I love the idea of helping a teen take her tinctures by mixing with Nutella and Peanutbutter! Such a nice, indulgent treat for when you're bleeding, too. 😊
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    What Are You Grateful For Today?

    Today I am grateful for my cute cat and the sunshine rays we are both sitting in right now. Also grateful for how much a warm cup of green tea uplifts my spirits. <3
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    Childhood Considering Opening Up to My Family About a Past Mistake Involving My Sister

    I know you asked your sister to touch you, but you never forced her to and that is the important difference to remind yourself. I think that it's pretty normal for tweens to explore sexual touch, and it makes sense that if you don't know any better you would ask a sibling, since family feels...
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    Self-worth and sexuality and rejection

    Last week I had a really bad episode that was triggered when my partner rejected my sexual advances. I asked if he had masturbated earlier that day and he said that he had. I asked if he had watched pornography too, because communication is something that we're working on regarding that. He gave...
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    Was I sexually abused as a young child?

    I had a friend in highschool whose parents were very prude, restrictive, and sheltering, but my friend was hyper sexual and promiscuous with older men, but she hid it very well from her parents. She had a sister who was much older who was a "bad apple" because her parents knew about her sexual...
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    What Are You Feeling Today? Not Thinking, Rather Feeling! Can You Identify Yours?

    I'm feeling anxious, concerned and worried, and misassumed.
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    Religious trauma and reclaiming positive sexuality

    Hi everyone, what are some ways that you have worked to reclaim your sexuality in positive ways? I have religious trauma and sometimes I still struggle with guilt/shame after having sex with my partner. Interestingly enough, I also seem to have a higher sex drive on the days where I'm struggling...
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    Specific trigger within relationship that I can't seem to get over

    Thanks for this input. I think there's a lot of shame tied into not being okay with porn, because of society's normalization of it. Any time that I've opened up to others about it in the past it's kind of backfired back at me with words like "EVERY man watches porn. It's normal. They're built...
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    Specific trigger within relationship that I can't seem to get over

    I just want to let you know that I relate to your feelings and morals surround the porn industry a lot and am also trying to navigate my triggers. I just created a thread about my feelings if you want to check them out.
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    What does sexual morality mean to you?

    My partner is not very confident being vulnerable so he doesn't share with me what his sexual fantasies and turn ons are. I just want to be involved. I've tried numerous times to encourage communication on that end but it feels one sided. I feel like porn offers an easy out to that. Also we're...
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    What does sexual morality mean to you?

    Lately I've been contemplating sexual morality and what that means to me. I was raised in a pretty hardcore Baptist Church so any kind of "lust" outside of marriage was considered a big sin, which caused me to feel immense guilt over my body's need to masturbate. Years later, I grew out of...
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    Childhood Tattoos and PTSD - Good or bad idea?

    I've always loved the idea of getting a tattoo(s), but part of me worries about the permanence. I would absolutely be very careful in picking out my tattoo artist and think for months before deciding on my tattoo, but I'm curious what other peoples' experiences have been. I'm scared mostly of...
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    Sufferer New and nervous about posting

    I highly recommend you check out on Instagram The Holistic Psychologist! You should never feel like your trauma is "not that bad" and she goes over that very well in her book How To Do The Work. What you've experienced with your previous diagnosis of "general anxiety" and "chronic depression" is...
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