Hi, I'm Beatrice. I'm an inner child healing coach and the host of this podcast.

Welcome to the Self Love Fix podcast. This podcast is all about helping you move

from shame, people pleasing, codependency, and low self-esteem and into alignment,

expansion, and unapologetic self-love through healing the inner child and

spirituality. Welcome to the Self Love Fix where you get your dose of self-love tips.

Happy Thursday, some flowers, and welcome back to the Self Love Fix. My name is Beatrice

and I am your host and I am so excited to be back here with you. I have been in my

new apartment for the past couple of days and I absolutely love it here. It's so

nice to be settled and back into the swing of things, especially over here on the podcast.

So today, I wanted to jump right into it because today we're talking about more serious

topic, CPSD, and how it relates to codependency and identity and things like that. So if you

don't know what CPSD is, it stands for Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and it is

a more extreme form of PTSD that people who have been in sexually abusive or emotionally

abusive relationships for a long period of time or have been involved in narcissistic

abusive relationships or in their upbringing or have experienced sexual abuse or emotional

abuse in childhood. So the common thing here is that we're talking about prolonged exposure

to abuse and the reason why CPSD can develop is first and foremost because CPSD is response,

a trauma response to feeling like you have to be constantly on the defense in regards

to you as a person, your identity, and just literally living. So before I go any further,

what does CPSD look like? If you follow me over at the Self Love Fix, you might have seen

some of the posts I had where I explained a little bit about it, but if not, that's okay.

So basically with CPSD, there's a number of different characteristics for it and I believe

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