To Be Let In
Being let into someone’s internal world allows them to trust you with their more vulnerable parts. When you can share your internal world with…
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Help…We Both Have Traumatic Childhoods!
Coming from a CPTSD background does not mean your relationship is doomed. I would highly recommend working with a therapist to support you as…
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Intimacy = Vulnerability
Sometimes, there is a good reason for this. Perhaps there have been some key events where you have felt unsupported by your partner or…
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How Might My Past Trauma Show Up In My Current Relationship?
We all enter a new relationship with baggage. When we grow up without a model of a healthy relationship or attachment, we are kind…
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Trauma Couples
Not all relationships can work, even with the best of intentions. But coming from a CPTSD background does not mean your relationship is doomed….
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Getting Upset
Here are those phrases again: “Tell me more about how that made you feel,” “It makes sense that you would feel that way,” and…
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Nedra Tawwab Quote
Living with someone who has an undiagnosed mental health issue impacts the whole family. If this is something you experienced, let me know how…
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Richard Schwartz Quote
People ask me, “How do you listen to people’s trauma all day? Don’t you get affected?” Yes, I get affected. I am deeply moved…
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Elizabeth Earnshaw Quote
Sometimes when I share that I’m upset about something, you get upset about me being upset. It starts to feel really confusing and I…
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Soothing Others
An additional struggle is that when your partner needs soothing, you are unsure how to give it. You might want to provide soothing support…
