1 in 3 people experiences symptoms from a traumatic childhood.

Highly Sensitive People in particular are more prone to experiencing trauma, than neurotypical people.

BUT the majority of them doesn't have a clue that they carry these wounds. Most of them believe their childhood was great.

But many of them wonder about various symptoms and challenges showing up in their life.

Today we will bring light to the dark by exposing the relation between the highly sensitive person and complex trauma (CPTSD).

And in the end we will resolve how we can break free from trauma

► Links and Resources:

EMDR Video: https://youtu.be/DALbwI7m1vM?si=bdX_g-eCZxOq8sid

HSP: https://hsperson.com/faq/evidence-for-does/

Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma: https://www1.racgp.org.au/getattachment/79710ca4-e98e-46aa-8f8f-d5f763ea8ef4/Adult-survivors-of-childhood-trauma.aspx

Genogram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtygF6LHkk

PVT Episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6XtNyXaEC56DKKzEkQ5s2B?si=b0tQ_MwBRziCNaVmsmRDKg

CPTSD Episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/69sjP0KS1t1eUhZiQgQPRs?si=gu-95wPXQRyOMYBQN_j1Xg

CPTSD + HSP vs. ASD/ADHD Episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3cCkfEvj3mkKrgv37sndRK?si=M1CAb_PqTNCo47Ku8FEu6Q

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► Episode Timestamps:

0:00 Overview HSP vs. CPTSD

1:53 What is a Highly Sensitive Person?

5:05 What is Trauma?

6:14 Capital T-Trauma vs. tiny t-Trauma

8:30 Overlap: HSP and CPTSD

10:50 Highly Sensitive Children (HSC) in Abusive Family Systems

12:00 Traits of a Toxic Family System

14:00 Emotional Abusive Caretakers

15:00 Emotional Tension in HSC

16:20 What Happens to Traumatized HSC?

17:20 The Healthy "Non-Traumatized" Pathway

19:45 The Wounded "Traumatized" Pathway

24:15 Stimuli and Trigger

25:50 Unsafety & Dysregulation in the Central Nervous System

29:31 Emotional Reactivity & Suppressed Emotions

32:58 Toxic Cycle of Shame & Guilt

36:44 Sense of Self

37:42 Disconnect & CPTSD-Symptoms

45:30 Solutions, Therapy & Treatment

46:00 Reclaiming Identity

49:45 Build Resources & Mastery

52:25 Re-Regulation of the Nervous System

56:20 Final Thoughts

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