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Navigating CPTSD: Impact on Daily Lives and New Living Situations
New homes, old triggers: How CPTSD survivors navigate the challenges of moving, from hypervigilance to food trauma in shared living spaces.
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Yoga for CPTSD: How Trauma Survivors Can Use Yoga to Manage Symptoms
Managing symptoms of CPTSD can be difficult, especially since medications have such a low success rate and the symptoms are so pervasive. Trying to regulate ourselves and manage our various symptoms leads to self-isolation, which often keeps us stationary indoors. Because of physical trauma, many who live with CPTSD feel uncomfortable and disconnected from their…
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Speaking Truth in Toxic Families and Breaking The Cycle of Abuse
Often our abusers keep us under their thumbs, not by action, but by the threat of action. When those abusers are ingrained as a part of a larger system, such as work or family, it makes it even harder to speak out against them or against the system.
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The Cost of Change: Leaving, Living, and Letting Go
Surrounded by Boxes Today I write surrounded by boxes full of things that are all attached to memories and events that occurred throughout my boyfriend and I’s lives. It is amazing how many things we can collect, and memories that come flooding back from them. What’s even more amazing is that all these memories attached…
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Celebrating One Year of Diaryofafloppingfish.com and a few announcements
Today marks the one-year official anniversary of Diaryofafloppingfish.com. I’ve got some exciting things in store for this year and many thoughts in the works so I’m going to take this time to celebrate how far this website has come and talk about a few new things. This website was started in 2016, but in that…
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