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Awesome, thank you! Totally agree. Consciously re-focusing on the whole picture of my being-ness over time to gain more resiliance and less reactivity to triggers over time. Thanks for the reminder of the bigger work.

Thanks for your thoughts Friday. I know it is not about him. Nor am I being abusive in the way I respond, or lashing out, however I'm aware that my requests towards him around these things still have an impact. For me, the little daily things are the big things, they are the big things that hit...

Thanks She Cat, agreed they are mine and it's not about the other person. However I don't feel exposure therapy would work for me, when I have been forced into situations of exposure I have become increasingly retraumatised with each trigger.

I've recently started a new relationship, and it's the first one I've had since I've become aware that I have c-PTSD (before I had no idea why I was feeling what I was feeling, it was incredibly confusing and stressful). As I'm doing my inner work I'm becoming more and more aware of why these...

Hi She Cat, Thanks for your perspective on this. Totally agree some of these milder type of behaviours are necessary for self care and protection and perhaps even more necessary when such self care is being learnt anew as an adult as part of a self healing journey. I also feel it's likely I may...

Thank you for that very thoughtful response! I've been working consciously with my inner child for about 6 months and have an excellent therapist whom I speak with sporadically over the phone and another I've started seeing face to face recently for EDMR to explore ways of rewiring the bit of...

My mother is a narcissist and did and still sees me only within the context of being an extension of herself. I did not receive healthful mirroring or learn that my emotions, thoughts or experiences had any validity, she didn't reflect back that anything I experienced had an importance in it's...

Thank you all for your thoughts, really helpful and so good to know I'm not alone and to have a community with a shared language for our unique experiences.

Yes, I totally resonate with this! Retraining my limbic system not to be continually on red alert

A huge part of my complex PTSD is around not feeling safe. Not feeling safe in my body, not yet knowing how to fully BE in my body, how to know that there is something secure and solid for me from which I can deal with the rest of life. That lack of foundation and even the visceral knowledge of...

Hello I am new here, only discovered 4 months ago that things I'd normalised and suppressed for probably 18 years were actually symptoms of complex PTSD. Life changing. I've done alot of work with myself and with somatic therapy. But right now I am miserable and want to reach out to people but...