Complex PTSD Recovery [on Spotify] : We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers

Let's explore the concept of half- and fully-corrective experiences in the context of trauma and mental health. These experiences can help us heal and grow, but also have potential dangers of over-correction and toxic positivity. It's important to understand the complexities of personal growth and the impact of corrective experiences and expectations on one's ego.

We can't prevent trauma, but we can help ourselves prevent long-term disordering in the aftermath. Here's the ultra brief rundown of behaviors to prevent PTSD.

Coming off a natural disaster trauma, let's talk about 47 *practical* ways to rebalance your nervous system.... that aren't all "yoga and breathing deeply."

Taking back the triggers - here's an edited version FOR ALL! A helpful metaphor and some basic trauma-tending advice for every shituation. The brain can't always be trusted - that's when you need a higher perspective from a lower place.

VIDEO (FREEEEEE) Compassion requires protection in the form of relationship-allowing boundaries. read: not relationship-ending rules. What are boundaries, how do we set them, and how do we make sure they're enacted? Talking inner and outer boundaries to separate their shit from yours, so love can exist.

So my CNS has been plugged to a 50amp this week, hburs? Gratefully heard some sounds under the near-full moon that swept a bitta anxiety away Have an immersive walk and some guided visual breaths with Marcus and me It's a predawn stroll through waterfalls and frogs, break glass in case of nerves on fire Goin nature zen, Fuckers 😮‍💨🌱💦🌊🐸🌕✨ Video

A VIDEO Memories detached from the whole -> views too big or too small which lock the brain into patterned behaviors and outcomes. Talking perspective resizing and generational ego acquisitions in our Feb drop. And for all the unfolding expansions? Come check patreon.com/traumatizedmotherfuckers.

ADVANCED THINKIN. Trauma: many outcomes from only a few standard reactions. Let's talk about adoption, avoidance, rigid adherence, and oppositional abandonment in a short drop with many reflection points to help you understand yourself and the nightmares around you. (juk)

It's time! To support ourselves by applying everything we've learned in 5 years of research together. Today: stress utilization. On the market for more applied trauma care? patreon.com/traumatizedmotherfuckers  for the community stream

TMFRs 2025 A nu Plan

A FULL LENGTH SHARE! Let's talk about the directions of disassociation and what to do about the pattern of continually ditching this bitch. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

What waits inside your self? STRESS, BIG EMOTIONS, MISALIGNMENTS, AND HUMILIATING MEMORIES, anyone? Let's summarize these stops on our spooktacular self-adventure. VIDEYUM! For the full ride, including DISASSOCIATION, the WHAT'S NEXTS, and FEAR check patreon.com/traumatizedmotherfuckers Happy holiday season ❄️☃️❤️‍🔥 leave a holiday tip

It's that time. Whether you're NC, LC, or BC (bitter contact), it helps to integrate evidence and recognize your personal "ENOUGH." For more help with the holidays, check patreon.com/traumatizedmotherfuckers and find the free Holiday Survival Collection.

"Be with your self undistracted, unphased by negative emotions, and working towards alignment!" Okay bitch, not a good week. Let's talk about aligning after this election.

Being with you... isn't an innate skill after trauma. And yet, we must, or we'll never recover. Take this long treat of an episode to start practicing your self-work.

💀 It's a halloween, election, and holiday season special! 💀 Today we begin exploring our abandoned selves and exorcising awaiting demons. What's in store when we reconnect with our lives? Stress, the big negative feels, constant disassociation attempts, horrifying memories of self, tense misalignments between beliefs and reality, the "what's nexts?", and FEAR... of self / being seen / existence...

It's the public summary of our work from the past month! The filthiest words: love yourself. 🤮 Why does trauma create barriers between us and... not hating us? Talkin' lost relationships, criteria for love, loss of self, and the endless self scrutiny created by post-traumatic judgments. It's a BIG EPISODE with some BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS - grab your pepto and let's talk about "self-love-y."

Back to Basics! What IS the inner work? What's the end goal? How do we do it effectively alongside media? Let's talk about trauma archeology and perspective work.

The Back to Basics series continues! Positive event... Negative reaction. WTTMF? Talkin the rollercoaster of hope, self-sabotage, superstition, narrative and identity disruption in brains built on trauma.

Education and Responsibility are important for t-recovery... But progress peters when self-punishment predominates. Without self-compassion, regression becomes reality. Let's talk about the requirement for self-compassion and 5 ways to do it. Want more help helpin yerself? t-mfrs.com or patreon.com/traumatizedmotherfuckers for the full series

"whoops that's a trauma thought." -all of us. Logical fallacies, overgeneralizations, B&W rulings, toxic positivity; these are brains on t-bullshit.

You asked, I answer. How to overcome shame surrounding traumatic events? I have a bottom-up approach that targets the hell your brain already believes you're living though... so we might as well process, re-evaluate, and recontextualize your worst nightmares, finally freeing up the PFC for conscious sense-making, huh? Huh. Here's that toxic shame post I mentioned from 2022!

When life serves conflictual and confusing information, our brains simplify it to survive... and fuck us over in the long-run. Let's talk about the "ALL GOOD" and "ALL BAD" self-defense mechanisms of Splitting and Projective Identification, what function they serve as children & adults, and how they create shitass trauma-bound lives down the line.

The question that fucks with us all, on both ends of the relationship dynamic. How do we define "abuse"? And how can we spot it in our own lives? Let's redefine it, run through some examples, and ask some Qs that might help you to identify it in your own life. Want to leave a comment? Here's the free Patreon post to share your thoughts. https://www.patreon.com/posts/108753298/

NOTE: This video is part of the Free Membership on Patreon! For the official Patreon post & comments, check here What is it / what isn't Psychosomatic Illness? How does the Brain-Body Painbrow Bridge work? 6 common causes to watch out for. And how to navigate PSI without making it worse. <3 Stay well, take self-maintenance and self-care. ps - check out the recent FREE BLOG POST on psych...