Releasing trauma triggers is not only something you’ll need to physically do, but you must also release these triggers internally. It may prove to be much easier to remove yourself from these things than it is to remove your thoughts from them.
Self-Care Strategies for Sustainable Healing
When you’re goal setting post-trauma, it’s important to engage in self-care and turn to your social network for support.
Summoning the Courage to Share Your Truth
It may seem very difficult at first to share your truth, and this isn’t something that should be rushed. Remember, no one is forcing you to share anything. If you choose to, you can do so on your own time.
Post-traumatic Stress and Self-destructive Behavior: Choose to Change NOW
Post-traumatic stress disorder can manifest itself in many ways. It can change the way one operates entirely, and one of the most terrifying characteristics can come in the form of self-destructive behavior. This can include engaging in risky behaviors, such as excessive gambling or promiscuous sex. It might mean abusing substances or causing self-harm. One […]
Narcissistic Abuse Survival: Narcissistic Victim Syndrome and C-PTSD
Survivors of narcissistic abuse often suffer from Complex PTSD, commonly termed C-PTSD and defined by prolonged, sustained traumatic grief. Symptoms include the manifestations of traditional PTSD at an amplified level, coupled with a subconscious guilt-ridden refusal to reclaim one’s sense of self and inability to enter into healthy, meaningful relationships with others – intimate or otherwise. […]
Getting Away with a Getaway: Temporarily Leaving Your Worries Behind
Sometimes getting away from the day to day is the only cure for the blues. Often, we allow ourselves to get carried away with work and caught up in our daily obligations, and we become so overwhelmed it’s difficult to shake anxious and worrisome feelings. The thought of dropping everything and running may sound appealing […]