41. How Do You Heal Complex PTSD?
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
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🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Living with complex PTSD (CPTSD).
Sara felt lost. She felt like she had missed the memo on how to do life. She was confused and wasn’t even sure what the questions were, let alone where to find the answers. It turns out that Sara had CPTSD and it took her 9 years to find somebody that could actually tell her this. And at no time did she think that this journey was about her childhood, about what had happened to her as a small child. What she did have was a bunch of missing pieces. And that’s how Sara describes complex trauma. Survivors become so fragmented, so broken up into a million tiny pieces, each piece trying to figure things out in order to survive. It's a network we build of protection and safety to survive the trauma. And it leaves survivors in a very dark and difficult place. Sara has an amazing instagram page called https://www.instagram.com/breakingdowncptsd/ where she is sharing her own journey and offering hope and resources for anyone who needs it.
You can find Sara on instagram https://www.instagram.com/breakingdowncptsd/ her website https://www.saraaird.com/aboutme-1
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| 0:00.0 | It's like you didn't have the memo for life. Like I'd missed the instructions, right? |
| 0:06.7 | And I felt really really lost at the time when I like looked back |
| 0:10.9 | I think because of those large missing pieces and the sense that what had occurred |
| 0:17.3 | I think right a lot of the abuse is what was the missing pieces and the |
| 0:22.4 | neglect was what felt like normal. I didn't really think when I started this |
| 0:27.9 | journey. This is about my childhood, right? This is about what happens. |
| 0:38.7 | Welcome to how my parents raised me. I'm Dawn Chitty. When we are born we arrive |
| 0:43.8 | here as pure and perfect souls and the direction our life takes from that |
| 0:49.4 | moment is deeply connected to what our parents bring to our lives and what |
| 0:55.3 | our parents bring to our lives is deeply connected to what their parents brought |
| 1:00.5 | to their lives and that's the cycle of families. I have always craved |
| 1:06.6 | connection with real and raw stories to understand what makes you you what |
| 1:13.7 | makes you the absolutely unique human that you are. Stories are medicine for |
| 1:20.9 | the soul they can connect us and they can change the world and so in this |
| 1:26.1 | podcast I'm listening to beautiful souls sharing their story. What happened to |
| 1:32.4 | them? How they got through and how they have healed and thrived despite |
| 1:37.3 | everything to arrive right here in this moment. Content warning, if you are |
| 1:44.8 | triggered by the themes of this podcast please seek a help line in your city. |
| 1:51.4 | Hey beautiful souls, do you suffer with complex trauma, CPTSD? Maybe you've had a |
| 2:02.2 | diagnosis or maybe you're just feeling really lost at the moment wondering why |
| 2:08.8 | life feels this hard. You might be aware that things weren't great for you |
| 2:13.6 | growing up or you might not remember much at all but you do feel like people |
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