SELF-CARE and healing from C-PTSD 


~ Penny, founder of NASG ~
Recovery and Restoration Coach

Experts in the field encourage a variety of practices that will assist survivors of abuse to heal from anxiety, C-PTSD and trauma. Whilst one cannot dispute the benefits of these, it's often a challenge to actually include them in one's daily routine and some of them - perhaps meditation for example - simply don't sit well with us. Why not focus instead on taking practical steps to ensure that you protect yourself from further abuse? 

Set firm boundaries, go NO CONTACT or minimal contact if you are co-parenting, utilize the suggested ways of communicating with a narcissist that will not incur their wrath or argumentativeness (going grey rock for instance and making oneself so boring that they will move on to someone else to get their supply from), and take your eyes off the narcissist. 

Choose to focus inward so that you can rediscover who you are and what your unique identity is as a person. Then make a concerted effort to actually do the things you love doing. Whether it be taking a walk in nature with your shoes off, watching the colours change as the sun sets or rises, inhaling the aroma of fresh flowers, having a meal with friends who love you and enjoy your company, laughing (it truly is the best medicine!), singing, dancing, doing a jigsaw puzzle, playing board games, taking up a new hobby and being creative, all of these incredibly simple things also affect healing. 

Socializing with others is so important for our happiness and well-being. Sharing our feelings and listening to those of others. Smiling at someone who looks like they're having a bad day, and any random act of kindness lifts both your spirit and the spirit of the one to who you are extending kindness. Embrace life. Allow yourself to be happy. Live in the present, not in regret of the past or fear of the future. This is your time..... breathe in the glad air and feel the peace, serenity, and freedom that is now yours to enjoy.


penny@C2C.co.za

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