Healing CPTSD

21. How To Support Someone Living With CPTSD


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This much-requested episode of Healing CPTSD, focuses on support for loved ones of those living with complex PTSD – this episode is for partners, family members or close friends. It includes insights and practical tools, gathered from my own practice and offered by community members, to navigate the complexities of these relationships, to ultimately come into better connection with each other. 


We’ll explore four key categories: 

  1. Valuable skills and knowledge – Understanding the unique challenges of CPTSD and how to approach them.
  2. Self-care for you as a loved one – Prioritising your own well-being while supporting someone else.
  3. Relational practices for connection – How to come together in moments of disconnection and dysregulation.
  4. Specific resources – Tools to help guide both of you on the healing journey (all which are linked below).

  5. Relationships can be incredibly powerful containers for healing and transformation for trauma survivors. Whether you’re living with CPTSD or a loved one is, I hope you’ll find these insights helpful. Tune in and share this episode with those who may benefit. 


    RESOURCES


    Organisations

    Blue Knot Foundation

    Al Anon | Nar Anon | CoDA


    Books 

    The Body Keeps The Score, Bessell van der Kolk

    The Complex PTSD Workbook, Arielle Schwartz

    The Pain We Carry, Natalie Gutierrez

    My Grandmother's Hands, Resmaa Menakem

    Non-Violent Communication, Marshall B. Rosenberg

    Attached, Amir Levine & Rachel Heller

    Attachment Theory in Practice, Sue Johnson

    Hold Me Tight, Sue Johnson


    Podcasts 

    On Attachment by Stephanie Rigg

    The Mark Groves Podcast

    Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel


    YOUTUBE CHANNELS 

    Patrick Teahan
    Crappy Childhood Fairy


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