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This is lovely to read Rosebud. Thank you for your reply. I hope for better and thriving relationships with all 3 of my kids but this one is the trickiest of all with my daughter. I have never viewed to live truthfully with them as courageous, until I read your reply. But you're right, it is...

Thank you for your reply OliveJewel. I appreciate you taking the time. I totally get what you say about self first and that a focus on improving my relationship with myself. I get stuck with the work 'Joy' and appreciate you stating that- at times there doesn't seem to be a lot of joy, but it...

I am wondering if anyone else has had experience with dealing with their own PTSD symptoms causing problems with their relationships with their own children. I am 46 and I have only just been diagnosed with PTSD (8 months ago) from childhood neglect and violence, as well as other events that...

Watching TV that I don't have to think about - it's a numbing technique I know but I find it helpful when I get in from work and I am tired. Recognising when I start to get overwhelmed/foggy in work and taking time out to breathe - and not feeling guilty about it. Drawing my awareness to my...

Good for you. That is such a great way to think. We are all on a journey I think, just at different parts of it and travelling at very different speeds. Mine is still a relatively new journey too but with determination and self love and care I am getting through. I am so happy you are here on...

I can recommend this one too. It is so helpful and clear and I find myself using the tools and thinking all the time. When I was first diagnosed I felt like my whole world fell apart, then one day I realised that it is childhood trauma so it has always been there - that part had not changed -...

Totally hypervigilance! I can really relate to this. I live near a lovely forest - perfect for dog walking - but I find myself avoiding it because if I am on my own and see any man walking near me I find I am in such high alert that I end up running with total fear. I am convinced that they...

I have a similar pattern of 'discovering' my abuse as you have described. I am not sure of the who's and the what's but I know it happened. My realisation was six months ago. I don't think I would ever talk to my siblings about it because I think they have very different thinking about growing...