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✨10 things that have helped me the most with Complex PTSD✨

1. Turning down the volume on my inner critic voice and developing my inner mentor voice. https://personal-growth-programs.com/the-inner-mentor/

2. Shifting the way I parent myself from an authoritative model to a gentle and compassionate model. https://www.goodto.com/family/gentle-parenting-489844

3. EMDR - for shock trauma, for understanding flashback patterns, for fixed beliefs and stuckpoints, for schema/worldview re-patterning https://www.emdria.org/about-emdr-therapy/

4. Movement practices - both structured and unstructured, always with music, finding my own pace, never pushing my body to do something it doesn't want to https://experiencelife.lifetime.life/article/how-movement-therapy-can-heal-traumatic-stress/

5. Somatic Tracking - learning to notice my felt senses, observing how I respond to safety or danger signals, noticing what sensations I enjoy https://www.bch.org/documents/content/Somatic-Tracking-Exercise.pdf

6. Narrative Therapy and Parts work - embracing the stories I carry with me and the various parts of my Self https://positivepsychology.com/narrative-therapy/ https://integrativepsych.co/new-blog/what-is-parts-work-therapy-ifs

7. Small group witnessing circles - spaces with 3 to 10 people where I feel safe to share my truth and be seen https://medium.com/presencing-institute-blog/social-solidarity-circle-the-power-of-bearing-witness-2fd91fd821a0

8. Active Release - allowing my body to complete stress cycles through expressing sympathetic activation instead of idealizing a safe/calm state https://allworldshealth.com/what-is-trauma-release/

9. Sensory Menu - a list of activities that I use for balance, activation, soothing, and grounding https://www.theottoolbox.com/how-to-create-sensory-diet/

10. Flashback Coping Strategies - learning to recognize, name, and ground through flashbacks http://www.pete-walker.com/13StepsManageFlashbacks.htm

I added a link to each point in case any of these concepts are new to you things that you want to learn more about.

If you have complex PTSD, you are not alone. It gets better with time.

I don't think I'll ever stop having trauma symptoms, but my capacity to deal with them has changed radically in the last 5 years. The biggest thing that helped was adopting an attitude of No Shame about every single one of my symptoms.

Remember trauma symptoms do not mean we are broken. Our bodies responded in a perfectly reasonable way to overwhelming or unsafe circumstances. We are working WITH the body to heal our trauma, not against it.

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[hanna-symphony]

Safety often causes anxiety for me. By anxiety here I mean a swarm of overwhelming feelings zipping around in my mind faster than I can keep up, or in science terms, sympathetic activation.

When I reach a new level of safety, there is an initial phase where the sense of safety brings up big feelings like fear of expansion and newness, guilt over having safety when others don’t, shame that it took me so long to find that safety, and worry that I’m likely to lose this safety sometime in the future.

I have trouble adjusting to changes even when they’re good. I have resistance to feeling safe for so many valid reasons.

I reached a new level of safety this year in terms of financial stability. Since introducing my courses, I’ve stopped needing to ask for mutual aid. I can now afford necessary medication and therapy, my silly-expensive safe foods, and probably also dental work in the next few months.

I am taken care of. That fact is working it’s way into my bones with every act of self-care and community-care that I previously couldn’t access.

And I’m a mess about it because my nervous system has hit the New is Scary button, and my mind is making up so many stories about why I feel uncomfortable, and part of me understands that this is how mammal bodies work, while still another part of me says, I have no right to feel uncomfortable with so many good things.

With time, I will be able to release this charge, and settle into being able to appreciate this safety. But I’m not there yet.

It’s okay that safety is sometimes scary. I can choose to be kind to my self when I’m triggered by safety in the same way that I often choose to be kind to my self when I’m triggered by overt danger. That’s what I’m trying to remind myself of today.

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[tsukopathe]

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The 3 Somatic Survival Circuits of the Autonomic Nervous System

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What is Dissociation?

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Neurodivergent Identity Part 1 (Part 2)

Complete set at TraumaGeek

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Neurodivergent Identity Part 2 (Part 1)

Complete set at TraumaGeek