Complex PTSD: Healing and Beyond: Tribute to a Fellow Blogger!

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Tribute to a Fellow Blogger!

This morning as I was going through my email messages, I noticed that I had received a post from a blogger who calls herself Cat’s Meow. I follow her blog because she is describing her experience as she heals from Complex PTSD, and she is working much as I have worked—with her personality parts, ego states. Here is the link to her blog and the post I read this morning: http://livingwhilehealing.wordpress.com/2014/07/26/telling-the-untellable/.

All along, I have been amazed at the candor and the courage of this blogger. She takes her reader by the hand and leads the person through her therapy sessions, revealing not only her pain resulting from horrendous childhood abuse but also giving her reader a picture of her interaction with her therapist. As I have followed her posts, I have been able to witness her healing, and this witnessing has given me inspiration as I have struggled on my own healing journey. I can only believe that others have benefited as I have from reading Cat’s posts.

Cat’s Meow has come a long, long way in the year or two I have been following her blog, and I have faith that she will, as I have, reach a point where she will know she is ready, finally, to “just live” and not need the support of formal therapy. This day will come for her, I am certain, for she has persevered and “kept on keeping on” through times that would lay many people so low they would give up.

I highly recommend this blog to you if you are considering getting help healing from childhood sexual abuse. To get the most help and inspiration from Cat’s posts, it might be useful to begin reading her early posts and progress through them to her present posts. This will help you get a sense of the progress she has made over time, and you will also understand why I say she is such an inspiration for others who are making the same journey.

Also, you might find it helpful to read the following information on ego state therapy, parts therapy, to gain some understanding of the parts concept: http://www.esti.at/index.php/about-ego-state-therapy. Here is another article that you might find useful: http://www.clinicalsocialwork.com/overview.html.

For those of you who are considering getting help but have not yet done so, for those who are in the process of healing, for those who have reached a point where you no longer feel the need for therapy, and for everyone who feels the need for protection and comfort, I will share with you this Celtic circle prayer I found while looking for information on the Celtic saint, St. Cuthbert--

Circle us Lord,

Keep love within, keep hatred out.

Keep joy within, keep fear out.

Keep peace within, keep worry out.

Keep light within, keep darkness out.

May you stand in the circle with us, today and always.

See more at: http://kathwilliamson.blogspot.com/2009/10/celtic-spirituality-circling-prayers.html#sthash.WRG2PcWX.dpuf

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UnknownApril 18, 2017 at 2:51 AM
Coming out of the trauma of childhood sexual abuse is a challenging situation. It needs courage to speak about what you actually experienced. However a major part of PTSD Recovery involves identifying your feelings and finding ways to deal with them.
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Regarding my EMDR posts:

My reason for posting reports as I go through EMDR treatments is to demystify the process. For me, EMDR seems to do what it is said to do--it "defuses" the emotional distress surrounding old trauma material and helps me see new possibilities. I can remember the events, but they do not now distress me as much as they used to. The preparation work I have done, and am still doing, in Ego State Therapy has helped a lot to control my PTSD symptoms and to make my life much more enjoyable. I am now, at the age of 74, beginning to see that I have a future, a future life that I really want.

Before getting help this time, I was at the point of not wanting to leave my apartment because it seemed that when I was "out in the world," I was being constantly triggered and having flashbacks and other debilitating PTSD symptoms. But I'm a fighter, and I decided to get help. Why let the abusers of my past have so much power over me in the present and future?

If you are willing to do the work, you, too, can have a brighter present and future. With careful research, you can find a competent and compassionate therapist who will help you heal from past abuse. It's worth the work! If finances are a problem, please read the post listed under "Financing Therapy" in my topics list. It may give you some ideas as to where to look for funding. Don't give up! As the Brits said during WWII, "Keep calm and carry on!"

For More Information . . .

To contact me directly, send a message to jeanfairgrieve15@gmail.com. For more information about the earlier portion of my therapy and how I have reduced my PTSD symptoms without the use of medication, please see my previous Google blog: http://relievingptsdsymptoms.blogspot.com/ Also, I have a WordPress blog that no longer is accessible to me but that contains more recent posts than those on the blog mentioned above: http://relievingptsdsymptoms.wordpress.com/ In addition, I have a website that contains some more general information, tells my story, and has information about Ego State Therapy and abuse in general: www.jfairgrieve.com. My website also contains links to reliable articles on the topic of PTSD and therapy. I am not a mental health professional; I'm just a writer who is trying at age 73 to heal my C-PTSD. Blessings and peace to you . . .