Photo: Pixabay What is Complex Trauma? Complex trauma, a term embraced in the field of traumatic stress, encompasses the enduring impact of multiple, chronic, and interpersonal adversities that often initiate in early childhood within the child's caregiving system. Bessel … [Read more...] about What is Complex Trauma (C-PTSD)?
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No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Is there some part of yourself that you wish would go away? Most of us would say yes, whether we call it addiction, the inner critic, monkey mind, neurosis, sinfulness, bad habits, or some other disparaging name. Yet what if there were a different way to approach these aspects of … [Read more...] about No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
The Little Match Girl & the Inner Child
I was recently reminded of The Little Match Girl & the Inner Child on a This Jungian Life podcast episode that I wrote about here. I hope you enjoy this story as much as I do. I have included some Inner Child Journal Prompts after the story. THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL a … [Read more...] about The Little Match Girl & the Inner Child
10 books to help you heal from a narcissistic mother
If you grew up with a mother (or father) who suffered with her own trauma and narcissistic wound, you may still be living with the early childhood trauma and emotional neglect that you experienced within your family of history. Here are 10 of the most recommended self-help … [Read more...] about 10 books to help you heal from a narcissistic mother
048: What is Complex Trauma?
In What is Complex Trauma?, Soul Sessions Podcast host, Jodie Gale talks about: ‘The traumatic stress field has adopted the term “Complex Trauma” to describe the experience of multiple and/or chronic and prolonged, developmentally adverse traumatic events, most often of an … [Read more...] about 048: What is Complex Trauma?