Coaching practices for How Do I Heal From Childhood Trauma and Ptsd Caused by Parents' Emotional and Physical Abuse

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• I keep blaming myself for still being this messed up so long after it happened, like I should be over it by now
• I’ve been focused on the obvious wound
• My head says I’ve dealt with it, but my body didn’t get the message
• People keep telling me everything happens for a reason and that I’ll come out of this stronger, and underneath my grief it makes me feel like I’m failing at healing because I haven’t turned my pain into some neat lesson yet.
• The memory itself still feels like it’s happening right now, not something that’s over

Practices that may help

1. Understand the PTSD cycle — education is part of treatment
   Learning why PTSD works the way it does reduces self-blame and makes the logic of exposure credible.
   Prolonged Exposure Therapy: Principles, Practices, and the Evidence
2. Examine stuck points across the five disrupted domains
   CPT organizes trauma-disrupted beliefs into five domains — Safety, Trust, Power, Esteem, Intimacy — to ensure none are missed.
   Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD
3. Body Scan and Session Closure
   Sweep attention through the body after processing to catch residual tension before closing the session.
   EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
4. Understand what PTG is — and is not
   Growth from struggling with trauma is real, but it is not guaranteed, not required, and not a silver lining.
   Post-Traumatic Growth, Made Practical
5. Understand imaginal exposure: revisiting the traumatic memory deliberately
   Imaginal exposure has the person revisit the traumatic memory in detail to allow the brain to process it as a past event.
   Prolonged Exposure Therapy: Principles, Practices, and the Evidence
6. Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD
   Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), developed by Patricia Resick, treats PTSD primarily by identifying and challenging "stuck points" — distorted or overgeneralized beliefs about safety, trust, control, intimacy, and self-worth that the trauma produced. Multiple large randomized trials show CPT is among the most effective available treatments for PTSD, comparable to Prolonged Exposure. The core concepts and some worksheets are publicly available; the full protocol benefits significantly from a CPT-trained therapist.
7. Know that CPT-C (cognitive only) skips the trauma narrative
   A cognitive-only version of CPT omits the written trauma account and may be more tolerable for some people.
   Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD
8. Identifying and Targeting the Trauma Memory
   Pinpoint the specific memory, its worst moment (the "touchstone"), and the negative belief it installed.
   EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
9. Installation of the Positive Cognition
   Once distress has cleared, strengthen the preferred self-belief with bilateral stimulation.
   EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
10. Work the four channels of traumatic memory: sense, emotion, cognition, meaning
    NET explicitly addresses all four channels in which trauma is encoded — not just thought.
    Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET): Weaving Trauma Into a Coherent Life Story

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