Using meditation to help make life with PTSD a little better. Sharing challenges and solutions for growing up with Complex PTSD. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/benjamin-allen-belzer/support
Role-playing in order to address people who bother you
How to respond when someone can't give you the conversation for clarity you need to move on
The inability to have clarifying conversations, and how dysfunction can perpetuate dysfunction
Why distracting people are a trigger for us
movie with a psychopath parent, correction to recent episode
movie you might find relatable; American Beauty
Intimate relationships and "Interpersonal Stockholm Syndrome"
Changes in systems of meaning; religious disaffiliation and Complex PTSD
Great news about my hobby, and why it's important that you have one
Is there someone in your life who serves as the "antidote" to your traumatic upbringing
Impulsive behavior and the consequences; the Complex PTSD brain
Calming your mind by getting perspective on things
A specific personality trait of people in cults, and the pros of long-term mental health facilities
Just taking a short break from CPTSD, mentioning a show I just started watching
Found a good movie that is therapeutic
Putting your sword in the ground when you're struggling with identity.
Feeling disoriented around past relations
When we ice people out, where does it come from?
If you feel like you're drowning in life, here is a very relatable movie I recommend
Organizing tips for a distracted life
Attention difficulties, and ways to organize yourself
When being "joshed" by someone is a trigger, and how to perceive it
Finances and excuses, and finding out getting a copyright is easier than I thought
Dismissive denial and the Cassandra Complex
Trauma and religion, aspects of my own upbringing
Negative Self Beliefs, one last thing about entitlement
Negative Self Beliefs, note related to previous episode
Negative Self Beliefs, part 5 (Abandonment and Entitlement)
Negative Self Beliefs, part 4 (Responsibility, Self-worth, and feeling Unlovable)
Negative Self Beliefs, part 3 (Logic, education and feeling defective), how our views shape us.
Negative Self Beliefs, part 2 (Learning and relationships)
Lacking fulfillment, and how poetry can help capture a feeling and provide a solution.
Domestic violence and long-term abuse
The Queen's work with domestic violence, and a documentary she did
How abuse shapes our relationships
What it's like not being allowed to have company over
A little bit of information about how the Princess of Wales helps support children's mental health
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