Managing Complex PTSD: Remembering How Far You've Come
Key points
Complex PTSD, or relational trauma, can be tied to generational legacies of abuse, neglect, or abandonment.
Without awareness, someone could believe that these kinds of generational burdens are their failings alone to remedy.
Starting a "gratitude-for-myself" practice can remind someone of the grit, gifts, and changes they've created in this generation.
Through this practice, someone can find some grace for themselves and for what they have "done differently."
In healing from relational trauma or complex PTSD—a type of PTSD thought to arise as a result of extended or repeated trauma—we often forget or dismiss what it is we’ve been up against. And for some of us, it’s what we’ve been up against our entire lives.
