- A Basic Guide To Feeling Words – how to identify your feelings and express them in words
- Journaling – how I journal, and how it’s helped me
- The 4F Trauma Responses – An introduction to Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fawn
- Child abuse and neglect – Basic introduction to types of abuse
- There Is No Such Thing As “Small Trauma”, and Abuse is Really Common – trauma isn’t a competition, all trauma is valid
- How I manage my Emotional Flashbacks
External Resources
Trauma & Flashbacks
- How to manage flashbacks
- CPTSD first aid kit
- How the stress cycle works
- A step by step guide for if you’re feeling generally crappy and don’t know why: youfeellikeshit.com 🙂
- Dr. Ramani’s YouTube channel about narcissism is a great resource for making sense of abusive people and how to deal with them
Parents
I like the writing of Daniel Mackler. For example:
What Constitutes Child Abuse? – The definition of child abuse is simple: whenever the spirit of the child is disrespected the child is abused.
His book is also good: Breaking From Your Parents by Daniel Mackler
Emotional Intelligence / Literacy
- EQI.org – this site has basically everything you need to know about emotional intelligence
- Emotional Neglect subreddit