Trauma-Informed Tuesday - March 8, 2022

Hello Friend,

We're always so grateful to have you on this journey with us and to be able to send out this weekly trauma-informed newsletter, just for you! Here are this weeks' resources and encouragement, we truly hope you find it helpful as you continue healing.

As always, feel free to reach out to us anytime to share your thoughts.

Remember, with any resource you come across in your trauma-recovery journey, "Take the Best and Leave the Rest".
 

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Featured on the CPTSD Foundation Blog this week:

• Healing from rejection trauma
• Introduction to CPTSD in the workplace
• The body stores trauma in different ways
• An analogy to explain CPTSD

This Week's Thought: "You lose nothing when you walk away from someone who treats you like you're worth nothing."

 - Quote by @nurmala79 - Instagram

The fawn response in Complex PTSD: Children require healthy, caring, and attentive adults to help them develop their social and emotional intelligence. It is the job of a parent to help children feel safe enough to express uncomfortable feelings. When children feel supported, they learn that stressful moments are only temporary and that they can resolve into positive experiences of empowerment or deepened connections in relationships.

However, when parents are emotionally withholding, controlling, or abusive, they fail to help their children develop a healthy emotional landscape. Within this unsafe territory, children become explosive or cut off from their feelings. In some cases, children become hyper-aware of their parents’ distress or are compelled to take care of their parents’ emotional needs. This process of abandoning self for the purpose of attending to the needs of others is called the Fawn Response.

When triggers are actually intuition and discernment: ‘Triggers’ are common issues with people with (Complex) Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The common advice given is to learn your triggers, avoid triggers, manage triggers.

Triggers, are when past trauma is triggered by something that happens now. These can be emotional triggers, can bring flashbacks, anxiety etc.

It is often viewed as the ‘triggers’, being innocent and non harmful, but triggering something from the past. E.g. someone sees someone with a beard, and it triggers a past memory of abuse, by someone who also had a beard. Obviously, the person now with the beard, is completely innocent in simply being someone, with a beard.

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Athena and the CPTSD Foundation Team

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