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@nate_postlethwait

Thoughts on healing from a survivors view. No DM’s. ⬇️ Free ebooks work with me:
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If only we could make it safe… To be patient, kind, curious… a secure sounding board that says:⁣ ⁣ “I will not interrupt you as you gather your words.”⁣ ⁣ “I will not hurt you more when you share what has hurt you.”⁣ ⁣ “I will not give you advice when you need a listening ear.”⁣ ⁣ A reminder, I’m never speaking of receiving verbal abuse. I’m speaking of those who can’t utter the words because, to do so, they flood the memories of how often they were shut down. ⁣ ⁣ Honoring those who relate to this today. ⁣ ⁣ I’m so glad you’re here! 💪🏻❤️⁣ ⁣ ***Free inner child journaling guide at link in bio***⁣ ⁣
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There are many places I look back with a raw ache that I wish I’d done things differently to escape further pain. ⁣ ⁣ When I break it down, I see a conditioned young man who was working overtime against terrible self-esteem and a busted foundation. ⁣ ⁣ He had no idea what was working against him. But he knows now, that I’m working to help him feel seen and free. ⁣ ⁣ ***Free inner child journaling guide and waitlist for Healing the Younger You @ link in bio ***⁣ ⁣ For those who share this ache, I’d love to know what transitioned where you were able to love this part of you?⁣ ⁣ The comments you made yesterday were life giving to many. ⁣Thank you!! ⁣ Im so glad you all are here! 💪🏻❤️⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣
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It’s not about who is family when someone is trying to heal. It’s about them finding safety and protection from those who caused their need to heal. For you (@ link in bio): -Free ebook: inner child guide -Free ebook: trauma recovery -Online group (registration 9/1) Thank you for the unbelievable amount of love you sent my way yesterday. Please give that back to you and others too. We all need the reminders that we matter. Im so, so glad you are here! 🫶🫶🫶
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****Registration is OPEN for online group. Get the details @ link in bio. If it’s the right fit for you, come on in! 🫶 This song has been one of my top played since the year it came out. Those words and that voice belong to my friend @kalihart She didn’t asked me to share her music… I just feel like you needed to know it exists. ❤️ I’m so glad you’re here! 🫶🫶💞💞✨✨ Any other song recommendations similar to this one?? ❤️
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Then the truth comes out and they chage the narrative again. Anything to deflect wrongdoing… My online group opens registration on Wednesday. We are welcoming new friends to join. Make sure to read all the details at the link in bio to see if it is the right fit for you. If it is, grab a spot on the waitlist and we will see you on Wednesday! I’m so glad you are here! 🫶✨💞
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I’m going through a phase of understanding how much healing takes place in writing and hope you all are finding the words that help the blurry feel clear, the hard feel doable and the ache find balms that soothe. I lead an online group where we talk about a lot of topics around healing. We are currently going through “A Year of Compassionate Growth.” We are welcoming new friends Wednesday (sliding scale included). If it’s a good fit for you, we will see you then! Waitlist @ link in bio. 🫶 I’m so glad you’re here! 🫶✨💞
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Compassion. Compassion. Compassion. Speaking of: “A Year of Compassionate Growth” is the theme our group is working through. Registration is Wednesday (including sliding scale spots). Link in bio. I’m so glad you’re here! 🫶✨💞
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These stories are complex. What’s not complex, is the importance of validating an estranged persons pain rather than projecting an unwarranted expectation. Registration (opens next week) for online community @ link in bio. I’m so glad you’re here! 🫶💞✨
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About yesterdays post: My heart was really full yesterday seeing what took place in the comments section. You may not realize how powerful that was, but therapy is not accessible to many people. In an effort to expand the conversation around healing, we need to have people share their experiences to give insight to the MANY things that offfer love, healing, and peace to a traumatized mind and body. The other thing that inspired me was seeing how different so many answers were. The thing is, social media tends to polarize conversations as everything is A or B. This does a lot more damage than what we realize, especially when a hurt person amps up their search for A, only to realize, they needed C with a mixture of D, E, F. We are ALL different. There are things in the comments, that I have tried and they had no impact on me. That does not mean those things don’t matter. It means there was something different for me that I needed to seek out and some of those things will be useless to many others. We…are…all…different. My goal for this space is to change the way we talk about complex trauma (and if that conversation is able to help a hurting person feel less alone, and validated/understood, then we are doing exactly what we hoped). Thank you for the way you are contributing to this space. You showing up this way can/will have an impact on that quiet person observing from far away, hoping there are words that mirror the ways they are hurt. As always, I am so glad you are here and I am inspired by the way we are sharing with the intention to help others find the hope we needed in our darkest hours. Nate ***My online group will open registration NEXT week (including sliding scale spots). This will be the last opening until summer. To be notified, grab a spot ont he waitlist @ link in my bio.
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I loved this conversation. A few reminders: Great therapy is a tremendous gift if it is accessible to you. Bad therapy is extremely common and detrimental. Never forget, therapy is meant to make you feel empowered. Healing is about mending pain. There are many, many ways to do this. Lastly, more than one person, replied “sandwiches.” This restored my faith in twitter. 😂 Two resources for you: 1). Free ebook “A Survivors Guide to Trauma Recovery” is written to help map out much of the process (how to find help, where to look for it, many online resources, etc). Link in bio. 2). I host an online community. Right now we are working through “A Year of Compassionate Growth.” Lots of conversations happen like the one you see above. Grab a spot on the waitlist @ link in bio. 🫶🫶 I’m so glad you’re healing! I’m so glad you’re here! 🫶💞✨
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I was 21 years old the first time I saw another adult cry over a story I told. It was a story in passing. Her response brought intense guilt and shame over making her feel this way— for not knowing that it was a story that would provoke that response. There’s nothing she could’ve said at that time that would have helped me understand that her response was not my responsibility. That it was her health that allowed her to grieve in front of me. I only froze and apologized for how she was feeling. Why is that? Because survival mode started early for me. As a toddler there was chaos that I knew to try and avoid. There was crying that would not be met with kindness. There were questions I feared to offer up because the answer could’ve shamed me for asking. This isn’t what kids are made for. The idea that kids are resilient is unnecessarily dismissive of what happens to a child who lives in a toxic environment and learns the pros of being invisible to get by. This stays with us. This shapes the way we see ourselves in the world and influences our assumption of how the world sees us. Do all people experience some level of this? I think so. But does it create tension, hypervigilance, defense, overcompensation? No. I don’t expect the whole world to start pausing and questioning how each person has had a different experience. I share these words, so those who know the aches of always being too much or not enough, can consider that giving it all a rest may be the solution. Not giving up on healing. Not giving up on feeling whole. But, letting go of the idea that you have to explain why things may be different for you, and imagining what that kind of acknowledgment offers the parts of you who always needed someone to say “It’s safe to rest. I’ve got you.” ****My online community opens registration in less than two weeks. If you’d like to join, grab a spot in the waitlist @ link in bio. If you are someone who is doing everything they know to do to heal, I’m glad you’re here. 🫶💞✨
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A few notes for those hurting, healing, coming alive…👉🏻💞 My online community is working through “A Year of Compassionate Growth.” Spring registration opens in two weeks (including sliding scale). Grab a spot on the waitlist @ link in bio. I’m so glad you’re here! 🫶💞✨
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