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How Your Complex PTSD Freeze Response Screws You and Protects You at The Same Time

Roland Bal - Resolving Trauma and PTSD

The Complex PTSD Freeze Response You dissociate to protect the still functional parts of yourself. When you disconnect, your energy becomes more present in the upper body and more disconnected from the lower body. It is usually the diaphragm that keeps a lid on the unresolved emotions that remain in the belly area.

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Why I’m Starting a Writing Practice to Heal from Grief and Trauma (Poetry: “What I Want My Words to Do”)

The Art of Healing Trauma

I want my words to make amends, restitution, burning off of the faces of old hopes now dead, or mostly dead, or still alive and harassing these moments now until these moments die, disintegrate, decay, the constant destruction of the present. Sometimes, I want my words to sponsor the slow restoration of present time.