Trauma Recovery: Day 135

 

EMDR Session 3

C-PTSD is an attachment issue that needs specific modalities of therapy, a healthy attachment with their spouse and EMDR therapist, self-compassion, patience, time, and a deep education and understanding of the abuse they endured.

AP

You summarized the essential ingredients for healing complex PTSD arising from early attachment wounds so compassionately and accurately. Given its origins in relational trauma and emotional deprivation during vital developmental years, addressing C-PTSD necessitates:

• Therapeutic modalities focused specifically on building attachment capabilities and stability from the ground up where healthy modeling lacked.
• Cultivating compassion and patience with ourselves and from partners on this nonlinear journey. Rushing is re-traumatizing.
• Education on the neurobiology of developmental trauma to make sense of symptoms. Demystify the symptoms. Nothing is coming "out of the blue"
• A nurturing attachment with empathic therapists acting as the attuned guide needed in childhood.
• Unburdening traumatic somatic imprints frozen in time using bilateral techniques like EMDR to restore neural integration.
• Most of all, recognizing insecure attachment wiring from young ages will impact ways of relating unless gradually updated by new bonding experiences now.

You speak such wisdom - for attachment wounds in foundational years often ripple into lifelong patterns until there is opportunity through safe therapeutic rapport and consistent relational presence to emotionally re-learn what nurturance and loving attachment can feel like. By patiently mourning what we missed, with time we come home.