Feats of Strength 💙 Trauma Healing
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#cPTSD #recovery ❤️🩹 Recovering from trauma is among the most heroic things we can do. We can heal. Personal thoughts on mental health & strength training w/a touch of science 🏋🏾🏋🏻 🖋️ scribendo cogito "I think by writing" #lifewriting
Many trauma survivors have extraordinary "discipline"—we molded & twisted ourselves in many ways just to survive. We've learned to turn every single part of being human into a test of discipline. Healing is mostly replacing self-control with self-compassion & self-trust. ❤️🩹 #cptsd
Many trauma survivors have extraordinary "discipline"—we molded & twisted ourselves in many ways just to survive. We've learned to turn every single part of being human into a test of discipline. Healing is mostly replacing self-control with self-compassion & self-trust. ❤️🩹 #cptsd
Suicide research often focuses on the "imitation effect," where media reports on suicide increases suicide rates. But there is also the *Papageno Effect,* showing media can play a protective role in preventing suicide by tell stories of overcoming suicidal crises. #cptsd tinyurl.com/3a9c3fzc
Effects of media stories of hope and recovery on suicidal ideation and help-seeking attitudes and intentions: systematic review and meta-analysis
Media narratives of hope and recovery from suicidal crises appear to have a beneficial effect on suicidal ideation in individuals with some vulnerability, but there is insufficient evidence regarding ...
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Suicide research often focuses on the "imitation effect," where media reports on suicide increases suicide rates. But there is also the *Papageno Effect,* showing media can play a protective role in preventing suicide by tell stories of overcoming suicidal crises. #cptsd tinyurl.com/3a9c3fzc
Effects of media stories of hope and recovery on suicidal ideation and help-seeking attitudes and intentions: systematic review and meta-analysis
Media narratives of hope and recovery from suicidal crises appear to have a beneficial effect on suicidal ideation in individuals with some vulnerability, but there is insufficient evidence regarding ...
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Excellent read, IMO. Covers a lot of ground, from silence, to AI’s sycophancy, to the weight of actual human presence. FWIW, I see my recovery as gaining skills to be fully human with other humans. AI could play a role (?), but those roles could be humans too. #cptsd tinyurl.com/3yr4a2k5
The Dead Silence of AI Therapy
What happens when our therapists are no longer able to feel?
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The social taboo around suicide doesn't just silence conversations. It can teach us to silence ourselves – to look away from our own painful thoughts rather than investigate them with compassion & curiosity. Self-silencing shame plays no role in self-compassionate inquiry or recovery. #cptsd
The social taboo around suicide doesn't just silence conversations. It can teach us to silence ourselves – to look away from our own painful thoughts rather than investigate them with compassion & curiosity. Self-silencing shame plays no role in self-compassionate inquiry or recovery. #cptsd
Work (in education) brought me to Japan for the summer. The mountains were great, the digital detox was nice too. I'm still a work in progress, but I'm proud of my growth in the past few years. Healing is possible. #cptsd
Found this insightful. The history on the 80s "SSRI revolution" & pushback on the "chemical imbalance" model of depression was interesting. Happy to hear what other folks think. #cptsd www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvcz...
Why We Can’t Stop Arguing About S.S.R.I.s | 'The Opinions' Podcast
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Trauma recovery asks us to fall in love w/ ourselves-- but not in a superficial or narcissistic sense. It asks us to fall in real love with ourselves-- love based on deep authenticity, visibility, & commitment. The kind of love that is more behavior than feeling. Agape, not eros.
What’s more infuriating to a survivor than someone mistaking privilege for discipline, a safe upbringing for courage, or shaming others as wisdom? Remember, their misunderstanding doesn't erase what we survived, what happened to us mattered. Their privilege doesn't diminish our strength. ❤️🩹 #cptsd
What’s more infuriating to a survivor than someone mistaking privilege for discipline, a safe upbringing for courage, or shaming others as wisdom? Remember, their misunderstanding doesn't erase what we survived, what happened to us mattered. Their privilege doesn't diminish our strength. ❤️🩹 #cptsd
Every moment of self-compassion is a step towards recovery. Be kind to yourself, always. ❤️🩹 I’ll be taking a break for a bit 🙏🏼. Still working my recovery, day at a time.
One of the cruelties of trauma recovery is realizing that perfection was never going to make our childhoods whole. We were deceived, perhaps for decades - most of recovery is acceptance and grieving. The light: We have a chance to build a life now, based on the values we choose. #cptsd
One of the cruelties of trauma recovery is realizing that perfection was never going to make our childhoods whole. We were deceived, perhaps for decades - most of recovery is acceptance and grieving. The light: We have a chance to build a life now, based on the values we choose. #cptsd
It's never gonna be fair that trauma recovery requires fixing what other people broke. But unfair isn't the same thing as impossible. We can acknowledge the injustice & we can heal. Every small recovery step forward is a refusal to let others' actions continue programming our lives. ❤️🩹 #cptsd
It's never gonna be fair that trauma recovery requires fixing what other people broke. But unfair isn't the same thing as impossible. We can acknowledge the injustice & we can heal. Every small recovery step forward is a refusal to let others' actions continue programming our lives. ❤️🩹 #cptsd
Many recoveries need to learn to harness the f*ck ’ems. We can use anger to set boundaries and protect our recovery values. Its a fuel we can use to consistently turn to healing, so f*ck ’em, we ain't abandoning ourselves. A spite recovery can still be a good recovery. #cptsd
My piece was picked up by Know Thyself, Heal Thyself! From Tony Robbins to Mel Robbins, the mindset grift is everywhere. Despite this, adopting a new mindset offers surprisingly little strategic guidance for trauma recovery; too often, it’s used to bully and shame survivors. tinyurl.com/uacast26
The Grift of the Social Media Self-Help Coach
Healing from Trauma is Not a Mindset Hack
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My piece was picked up by Know Thyself, Heal Thyself! From Tony Robbins to Mel Robbins, the mindset grift is everywhere. Despite this, adopting a new mindset offers surprisingly little strategic guidance for trauma recovery; too often, it’s used to bully and shame survivors. tinyurl.com/uacast26
The Grift of the Social Media Self-Help Coach
Healing from Trauma is Not a Mindset Hack
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Excellent article, worth a read. "One of the cruelest surprises of trauma recovery is that healing often makes you less functional before you feel better." "Yet the reality is, forgiveness is not a milestone, and it is not required. Healing comes through mourning." Much more! tinyurl.com/yc84ftu8
Hard Truths About Trauma Recovery That Can’t Be Positivity-Coached Away
Healing has been aestheticized into something almost unrecognizable
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Excellent article, worth a read. "One of the cruelest surprises of trauma recovery is that healing often makes you less functional before you feel better." "Yet the reality is, forgiveness is not a milestone, and it is not required. Healing comes through mourning." Much more! tinyurl.com/yc84ftu8
Hard Truths About Trauma Recovery That Can’t Be Positivity-Coached Away
Healing has been aestheticized into something almost unrecognizable
tinyurl.com
"People have this idea that PTSD is about what happened to us, and it is— but CPTSD is mostly defined by what it gets us to believe. The lies it gets us to believe." useyourdamnskills.com/2026/06/11/c...
CPTSD is a lying liar that lies.
CPTSD will straight up lie to us. Thats’ what CPTSD does best, actually. Lie. It lies to us about who we are. It lies to us about what we deserve. It lies to us about what w…
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"People have this idea that PTSD is about what happened to us, and it is— but CPTSD is mostly defined by what it gets us to believe. The lies it gets us to believe." useyourdamnskills.com/2026/06/11/c...
CPTSD is a lying liar that lies.
CPTSD will straight up lie to us. Thats’ what CPTSD does best, actually. Lie. It lies to us about who we are. It lies to us about what we deserve. It lies to us about what w…
useyourdamnskills.com
Before recovery, while struggling with professional impostor syndrome, #growthmindset seemed like the answer. But it never quite solved my problems. Only recently, I discovered much of the mindset hype was unfounded. Here's some things I've been reading & thinking: #cptsd tinyurl.com/4uw3pbyj
Debate Arises over Teaching "Growth Mindsets" to Motivate Students
Research shows conflicting data on the impact of the intervention, but a major new study confirms it can work
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