ptsd resources
everyone's needs are different. take what you find helpful, leave what you don't.
About this site
It can take a lot of courage to face your inner demons, and no matter where you are or how much capacity you're feeling right now, I'm glad you're on the journey. This is the roadmap that I wish had been there for me in 2020.
This website is a guide to all of my favorite action-oriented self-help resources I used to claw my way out of a bottomless pit of despair during the armpit of 2020, focused around (but not limited to) complex trauma, attachment, and triggering.
There are many resources specially targeted toward people who believe "other people had it worse, my problems aren't serious enough for this kind of help." So don't stop reading just because you don't identify with a certain label, or don't feel like you had it quite as bad as I did. You don't need to be diagnosed with Trauma™ to benefit from these resources. It's okay to take what you find helpful and leave what you don't.
I have no formal training in these areas, and am by no means perfect at doing all these things in real life. After all, I made this site because I was in desperate need of help and had a lot of emotional baggage to blast through. Seeing a specialized therapist once a week was good but not enough, so I decided to turbo blast it by assigning myself homework to read fifty therapy books and do every single exercise in all of them. I provide reading notes here for my favorite resources so that you can do it with more support and structure than I started with.
This site is text-heavy because that's how I process, but some of the resources are audio/visual.
Feel free to send feedback here.
I originally wrote this as a longform article, and made this website for quicker reference when the article got too long.
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