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Tag Archives: Trauma Recovery
Starship ENTERPRISE metaphor for life with Complex PTSD (CPTSD)
I like to use a tall ship or starship/Star Trek analogy to describe the experience of life with Complex PTSD. Imagine you’re aboard the USS ENTERPRISE, and she’s under attack. The red alert alarm constantly sounds, reminding you that you … Continue reading
“Unleash the Ladybug!”
Della the Janked-Up Ladybug helped me launch my tiny-but-pointed #TraumaAwareAmerica initiative. It focuses on trauma awareness/education and the rights of traumatized people. I initially aimed at frontline providers, because they were the ones who could have greatly helped instead of … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Education, Kindness, Mental Health
Tagged #InterpersonalNeurobiology, #Justice, #Neuroscience, #TraumaAwareAmerica, Chronic Stress, Community, Complex PTSD, Covid-19, CPTSD, Developmental Trauma, Giving & Receiving, Healthcare in America, Kindness, Leadership, Learning, Love, mental health, Neurobiology, Neuroplasticity, Pandemic, Personal Calling, PTSD, Resilience, stress, Trauma, Trauma Awareness, Trauma Recovery
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I hate mindfulness dogma!
Some mindfulness proponents tell us we don’t have trauma if we just live in the present and “let the past go.” When it comes to Developmental Trauma, this is shaming and incorrect! Unresolved trauma prevents us from living in the … Continue reading
Posted in Mental Health
Tagged #TraumaAwareAmerica, Complex PTSD, CPTSD, Developmental Trauma, Dogma, mental health, Mindfulness, PTSD, Resilience, Trauma, Trauma Awareness, Trauma Recovery
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I was a teenage sex slave
The moment I became a teenage sex slave. Each drop of blood signifies one month of that abuse. It began several weeks after my 15th birthday. A 25-year-old acquaintance, on hearing about my mother’s worsening mental illness and abuse, offered … Continue reading
What the f*** happened to me
You know how you feel when you come out of a movie at midday? you blink and you realize that you had forgotten there is this other world out there. You see it in a new way. At least for … Continue reading
Posted in Mental Health
Tagged #ChristianaCare, #DelawareDontCare, #PsychAbuse, #RockfordCenter, #TraumaAwareAmerica, #UniversalHealthServices, Complex PTSD, CPTSD, Developmental Trauma, Healthcare in America, mental health, PTSD, Rockford Center for Behavioral Health, Trauma Awareness, Trauma Recovery
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3 Gateways to Presence
Interoception, Exteroception, Proprioception. My Alexander Technique instructor and friend, Imogen Ragone and I discuss how “awareness of our inner self and bodily sensations (interoception), of our position and movement in space (proprioception), and of the stimuli coming from outside ourselves … Continue reading
Why We Need Trauma Informed Care (TIC)
The trauma survivor’s Red Alert system is stuck on “HIGH,” but the trauma-uninformed psychologist has no clue. This one, at ChristianaCare thinks he is The Well And Knowing Doctor Who Bestows His Wisdom And Thereby Health Upon The Broken Patient. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Mental Health
Tagged #DelawareDontCare, #PsychologyAbuse, #PsychologySurvivor, #TraumaAwareAmerica, #TraumaInformedCare, CBT, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Chronic Stress, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CPTSD, CPTSDawareness, Developmental Trauma, Healthcare in America, MentalHealth, PTSD, PTSDawareness, stress, Trauma Recovery
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If you have PTSD, the mental health system might drive you insane
If you have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or Complex PTSD, the so-called “mental health care” system in America might drive you insane. Like me, you could too easily find yourself in the loony bin just because you’d been traumatized a … Continue reading
Posted in Mental Health
Tagged #HarmedByChristianaCare, #PsychAbuse, #TraumaAwareAmerica, #UniversalHealthServices, Complex PTSD, CPTSD, Cukoo's Nest, Developmental Trauma, Healthcare in America, mental health, Mental Hospital, PTSD, Rockford Center for Behavioral Health, Trauma Awareness, Trauma Recovery
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“We are living under a pre-traumatic cloud”
Trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk says that due to the Covid-19 pandemic, “we are living under a pre-traumatic cloud,” in this video from The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM), one of my favorite sources of … Continue reading
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Tagged Covid-19, Stay Off the Trauma Train, Trauma, Trauma Awareness, Trauma Recovery
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