Reconnecting with Your Haunted Self: A Journey to Inner Peace
Episode Overview
Spending quality time with yourself is essential for building new relationships. Hypervigilance and avoidance are common in complex trauma survivors. Developing a new relationship with yourself is necessary for genuine recovery. Practical steps are provided to help overcome trauma-related hurdles. Creating a stable self-relationship paves the way for lasting change.
To have a target for your love, you need to know that you exist.
Reconnecting with your haunted self isn't something that comes naturally after trauma, but it's crucial for recovery. This episode of CPTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers is a long, calming dive into the practice of self-work. The host breaks down why spending quality time with yourself is essential for building new relationships and healthier behavioural patterns.
You'll hear about the necessity of developing a new relationship with yourself to tackle the ghosts of past trauma and learn why it’s normal to feel uneasy when you start this journey. The episode also touches on how hypervigilance and avoidance are common among those with complex trauma and offers practical steps to overcome these hurdles.
The host shares their own experiences and the rationale behind these practices, making it clear that this self-time isn't just fluff—it's a foundational step towards genuine recovery. So, if you're ready to face your inner demons and build a more stable self-relationship, this episode is a must-listen. It's an oasis of calm in a chaotic world, offering you a chance to be kinder to yourself and pave the way for lasting change.