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It’s Time to Heal Your Childhood Trauma, Not Your Marriage
What do you think led you to the misery of relationships?
Time alone doesn’t heal childhood trauma.
I’ve done that for years, hell, I’m still doing it. You know? Sitting around and “waiting” to start coping with life differently.
I believe the more I “think” I know, eventually I will start to feel better. Healing trauma doesn’t work that way. While educating yourself, and becoming aware of how the trauma is affecting your life is ideal, you have to go much deeper than that.
A major symptom of CPTSD is procrastination. If you’re anything like me, you have a “plan” to seek help, or better yet, just think you can do it yourself. I always try and “stop” doing destructive things, but lately the more I try and stop, the worst the escape gets.
The thing with CPTSD is it gets worst with time, not better.
All the consequences of “coping” with the trauma over the years eventually catch up. Could be you are struggling with severe debt, going nuts with toxic relationships, your health could be failing from using a substance or food as a form of relief, and the list goes on.
I love to use the excuse that there is a lack of qualified therapist, which is true to an…
