Want to Heal But Can’t Let People In? Understanding Vulnerability in CPTSD
Release Date: 07/25/2025
Regression or Resolution? The Truth About “Setbacks” in CPTSD Healing
CPTSD Medicine Podcast
Have you ever felt like your healing was working, only to fall back into old patterns, leaving you discouraged and wondering if you’ll ever make progress? In this episode, I share the truth about why CPTSD healing can look like regression, why it’s different from the deeper cycles of resolution, and how to know the difference. You’ll learn what it means to reclaim your seat of power when protective parts or old energies take over, and why these moments don’t mean you’re broken; they’re actually invitations to deeper healing. In this episode you’ll learn: ✦ Why “healing is not...
info_outline
Why You Can’t Stop Thinking About Your Ex: The Truth About CPTSD
CPTSD Medicine Podcast
Do you ever find yourself stuck in endless loops about your ex? As you are falling asleep, you are replaying conversations. While you are going for a run, you are replaying conversations. Any moment of downtime, there you are replaying conversations and wondering what you could have done differently, or feeling like a ghost of that relationship still haunts your heart. If you live with CPTSD, this is not about weakness or willpower. Ex-partner obsession and rumination are one of the most common ways unresolved trauma shows up in love. Every student I work with has felt it. And there is...
info_outline
Always Feeling Unseen in Your Relationship? The Truth About CPTSD
CPTSD Medicine Podcast
Always Feeling Unseen in Your Relationship? The Truth About CPTSD Do you ever feel invisible in your relationship, like no matter how hard you try, your partner just does not truly see you? This invisibility is confusing, painful, and leaves you questioning your worth. If you live with CPTSD, this is not your imagination and it is not a flaw in you. Feeling unseen in love is one of the most common and heartbreaking ways trauma shows up in relationships. In this episode, I share why Protective Parts and Hurt Victim Energies keep you trapped in the cycle of invisibility, why waiting for others...
info_outline
Successful But Exhausted: Overachieving as a Trauma Response
CPTSD Medicine Podcast
Successful But Exhausted: Overachieving as a Trauma Response If you looked at your achievements on paper, no one would guess the truth. But inside your head, or behind closed doors, it is a very different story. If you are the human who achieves to survive, this episode is for you. Overachieving is not ambition gone too far. It is a trauma response. It is what happens when CPTSD convinces you that your worth depends on what you produce, how much you give, and whether you hold it all together. In this episode, I take on overachieving directly and share what is happening internally when...
info_outline
Why You Lose Control in Conflict
CPTSD Medicine Podcast
Why You Lose Control in Conflict Do you ever find yourself in the middle of conflict, suddenly hijacked by intense reactivity — saying things you do not mean, shutting down completely, or feeling like you are watching yourself from the outside? If you live with CPTSD, this is not a failure of willpower. It is what happens when trauma energies take over your system. In this episode, I share why reactivity can feel impossible to control in the moment and how you can begin to interrupt these cycles with practical techniques. You will learn how to return to your True Self even in the heat of...
info_outline
Why Unworthiness Keeps You Stuck in CPTSD
CPTSD Medicine Podcast
Why Unworthiness Keeps You Stuck in CPTSD Do you feel like no matter how much progress you make, something always pulls you back into old CPTSD cycles? At the heart of this pattern is often the unworthiness wound — the deeply ingrained belief that you are not enough. This wound drives the “above and beyond” survival strategies that leave you exhausted, disconnected, and stuck in painful relationship dynamics. It is also why so many traditional therapies feel like they never quite work. In this episode, I explain why the unworthiness wound is especially resistant to conventional...
info_outline
Why You’re Successful But Heartbroken: CPTSD & Love
CPTSD Medicine Podcast
Why You’re Successful But Heartbroken: CPTSD & Love Ever wonder why you can thrive in your career but keep repeating painful cycles in love? This is the hidden truth of CPTSD: the same trauma energies that drive your success at work can undermine your ability to feel secure in relationships. You can achieve so much, yet still feel unstable, unseen, or abandoned in love. In this episode, I share why standard relationship advice falls flat when CPTSD is at play, and how to finally shift from being trauma-led to True Self-led. You will learn how to reclaim your internal anchor, stop chasing...
info_outline
Want to Heal But Can’t Let People In? Understanding Vulnerability in CPTSD
CPTSD Medicine Podcast
Do you want to heal but feel like you just cannot let people in, not even your therapist, not even the people closest to you? If you live with CPTSD, this makes perfect sense. Protective walls and fear of vulnerability are natural outcomes of surviving without secure attachment. They keep you safe, but they can also keep you stuck. In this episode, I share why therapy often feels frustrating when these defenses are active, and why your resistance is not brokenness — it is protection. You will learn how healing begins by cultivating safe vulnerability with yourself first and how that...
info_outline
Saying Yes When You Want to Say No? Understanding People-Pleasing and CPTSD
CPTSD Medicine Podcast
Saying Yes When You Want to Say No? Understanding People-Pleasing and CPTSD Do you say “yes” when your whole body wants to say “no”? Do you constantly feel like your worth depends on keeping the peace? That is not weakness. That is CPTSD. In this episode, I explain why standard boundary-setting advice does not work when you are living inside a trauma ecosystem — and what actually does. You will learn how people-pleasing is not a flaw in your character but a survival strategy rooted in safety. I will guide you toward uncovering the hidden trauma-based narratives that keep you stuck,...
info_outline
Always Afraid They’ll Leave? Understanding Attachment Anxiety in CPTSD
CPTSD Medicine Podcast
Always Afraid They’ll Leave? Understanding Attachment Anxiety in CPTSD If you are navigating Complex PTSD, relationships can feel exhausting, scary, or impossibly hard. Attachment anxiety and fear of abandonment can overwhelm even the most self-aware humans — even therapists — and leave you wondering if love will ever feel safe. In this episode, I explain why CPTSD creates such intense panic in love and what you can actually do to shift the cycle. You will learn the critical difference between circumstantial power (living on external validation) and personal power (the internal security...
info_outlineDo you want to heal but feel like you just cannot let people in, not even your therapist, not even the people closest to you?
If you live with CPTSD, this makes perfect sense. Protective walls and fear of vulnerability are natural outcomes of surviving without secure attachment. They keep you safe, but they can also keep you stuck.
In this episode, I share why therapy often feels frustrating when these defenses are active, and why your resistance is not brokenness — it is protection. You will learn how healing begins by cultivating safe vulnerability with yourself first and how that foundation makes relational healing not only possible but inevitable.
In this episode you’ll learn:
✦ Why therapy can stall when CPTSD defenses are strong
✦ How to see resistance as a survival strategy, not a flaw
✦ What safe vulnerability with yourself actually looks like
✦ Foundational practices to begin opening up without fear
Less drama. More genuine security. Finally.
🧭 Free Resource: Get your Fight Smarter Field Guide — a practical compass to help you navigate conflict without collapsing or exploding.
Get your free Fight Smarter Field Guide here.