Recovery

recovery is gradual and frequently a backwards and forwards process

When

• Another key sign of recovering is that your critic begins to shrink and lose its dominance over your psyche.
• A further sign of recovering is a gradual increase in your ability to relax.

in relationships

• Deep-level recovery is also evidenced by you becoming gradually more relaxed in safe enough company. This in turn leads to an increasing capacity to be more authentic and vulnerable in trustworthy relationships.

how

• mindfulness helps us understand that we have Cptsd
• We also aid our recovery greatly by challenging the all-or-none thinking of the critic whenever it judges us for not being perfect in our efforts
• spot emotional flashbacks

Surviving vs Thriving

• modes of survival
  • Depending on your 4F type this commonly manifests as increased eating, substance abuse, working, sleeping and/or sexually acting out.