Nobody prepares you for the fact that healing your nervous system can feel worse before it feels better — or that safety itself can feel threatening when you have a trauma history.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re too much, too sensitive, or never quite safe in your own body | there may be a deeper reason why.

Complex PTSD is the result of ongoing, repeated emotional wounds; often in the very relationships where you were meant to feel safe and protected. It is formed slowly, over time, with chronic, relational trauma.