by Jess | Sep 16, 2019 | Blog, Fix Your Trauma Mindset, LIVING with Complex Trauma, Public Blog, RECOVERY, Series, Tools and Resources
Okay. We have a small grasp on our physical feelings. Hopefully you’re feeling more relaxed because of the physical energy release, less sickly because of the high quality diet, and more thought-organized from spending time in nature. If not, you need to keep working....
by Jess | Sep 14, 2019 | Blog, Jess Journals, LIVING with Complex Trauma, Public Blog
Whatup whatup. Just an old post that I found sitting in my drafts folder. It’s nothing deep or prolific, but I think it sounds like a lot of us… Might as well put this shit out there. Here’s something I wrote in 2019, as I started to see my...
by Jess | Sep 8, 2019 | Blog, Public Blog, Tools and Resources
If I haven’t said before, I’ll be saying it soon: Punk is the Trauma Genre of music. Gather all the angry, poor, white kids with shit families and terrible coping skills. Now give them instruments. Punk. Here’s what Ryan Young of Off With Their Heads...
by Jess | Sep 8, 2019 | Blog, Member Posts, MF Speaks, Public Blog
I would like this email to make its way to Jess if possible. She needs to know how much what she wrote helped me. I read your piece in The Lilly yesterday. I sent it to my husband and my therapist with a note saying that it described EXACTLY how I experience anxiety....
by Jess | Sep 8, 2019 | Blog, Member Posts, MF Speaks, Public Blog, Tools and Resources
I saw your blurb in the Washington Post and your website and would like to commend your courage in putting yourself out in the open so to speak. Anxiety is at near epidemic levels for a variety of reasons and most people are absolutely unaware how to cope with it and...
by Jess | Sep 8, 2019 | Public Blog, Blog, Tools and Resources
Dude, I don’t know how nobody is aware of this resource. https://openpathcollective.org/ Not independently wealthy? No health insurance? Health insurance that doesn’t cover mental health intervention? Check out Open Path. How does it work? You pay $50 ONE...
by Jess | Sep 8, 2019 | Public Blog, Blog, Member Posts, MF Speaks
I found you via the article in Lily, which I found through the Washington Post. I looked through the TMFRS website a bit and I appreciate you starting this and sharing your story. I am a male, suffering from childhood and career-related trauma and PTSD. When...
by Jess | Sep 8, 2019 | Blog, Member Posts, MF Speaks, Public Blog
… here’s my story so far: the conception of my child 2 years ago pushed up unresolved trauma, started group therapy where I learned I was raped by my h.s. boyfriend (had no idea it wasn’t just sex after he hit me repeatedly in the car that led to sex..). As the...
by Jess | Sep 8, 2019 | Member Posts, Blog, Public Blog
This is a really big deal. I’m also terrified now for no reason (I think it could be the sharing part). However, my current isolation status and living everyday as if I’m invisible, is actually making me disappear. Except for the fact that I will...
by Jess | Sep 8, 2019 | Blog, Member Posts, Public Blog
I’m a C-PTSD sufferer (/survivor?). Sources of hell: some nurture, some nature. Main symptoms: flashbacks, dissociation. Comorbidities: anxiety and OCD. When did it start? Early childhood trauma indeed! Because it started so early (age 2, from what I understand)...
by Jess | Sep 8, 2019 | Blog, Fix Your Trauma Mindset, LIVING with Complex Trauma, Public Blog, RECOVERY, Series, Tools and Resources
Sweet, I’m back. You’re back. Let’s rap. I just recently received a message from a new MF stressing how critical her physical health had become, and my butt-fire was re-ignited. From my own history with chronic, stress induced illness and years of struggling to get...
by Jess | Aug 31, 2019 | LIVING with Complex Trauma, Anxiety, Attention, Obsession, Blog, Jess Journals, My Stories, Public Blog, Transcripts
Greetings, fuckers. Today I’m doing something a little different. I decided that on top of discussing my past history with trauma, anxiety, depression, and all the rest of it, I would start providing some details about my day-to-day. Cuz that shit’s wild too. This is...
by Jess | Aug 6, 2019 | Public Blog, Blog, LIVING with Complex Trauma, RECOVERY
I recently started dipping my toes into the ”how” of Traumatized Motherfuckers. As in, “how” I finally managed my anxiety, got out of my head, and got a hold on myself to make changes. (Don’t worry, I have a lot more ‘splaining to do) But the other big question...
by Jess | Aug 4, 2019 | Blog, Public Blog
Totally not original or any kind of a secret – It’s You are a Badass by Jen Sincero. Yep, you’ve probably heard of it. Skeptical to try self-help books? Then this is definitely a good place to start. It’s casual and easy to read, not too...
by Jess | Aug 4, 2019 | Public Blog, Blog, Brain Operations, Early CPTSD Info, Tools and Resources
This is where my trauma recovery got traction at the start of 2019. It seems silly – this is a 5 minute long video, not a how-to guide on trauma management. However, absorbing that there are different compartments of the brain directing my trauma versus daily...
by Jess | Aug 4, 2019 | Blog, Member Posts, Public Blog
This week I got to walk through Piedmont Park with a new friend – a man named Kumar. Kumar lives outside the city and came all the way through ATL traffic to give our MeetUp a chance. Talk about taking initiative and being vulnerable – meeting some weird...
by Jess | Aug 4, 2019 | Blog, Fix Your Trauma Mindset, LIVING with Complex Trauma, Public Blog, RECOVERY, Series, Tools and Resources
Continuing my explanation of “how?” You’re still here after my insults about your personal conviction to feeling better? Huh. What’s the next way to push people away before taking my sage advice? Let’s talk about health. Sorry. We all know Maslow’s...
by Jess | Aug 3, 2019 | Blog, Fix Your Trauma Mindset, Public Blog, Series
Motherfuckers keep asking me “How?” How did I get control of my anxiety? How do I manage each day, despite having endlessly, chaotic bullshit to deal with? How have I transitioned from certified agoraphobe to hopping in the car and meeting strangers around a major...
by Jess | Aug 2, 2019 | Blog, LIVING with Complex Trauma, Public Blog
I’m nearly 30, and I have an admission. I never learned how to take care of myself. Don’t get me wrong, I learned to fend for myself at a young age. I know how to practically keep myself afloat with very few resources… but I never learned how to care for myself. Think...
by Jess | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog, Intro to my C-PTSD, LIVING with Complex Trauma, My Stories, Psychosomatic illness, Public Blog, RECOVERY, Series, Transcripts
If you’d rather listen to this article than read it – HEY there’s a podcast for that. Listen here! Or, take a gander at Spotify, Google Podcasts, and beyond. Just search for “Complex Trauma Recovery” or Traumatized Motherfuckers, and...
by Jess | Jul 23, 2019 | Blog, Intro to my C-PTSD, LIVING with Complex Trauma, My Stories, Public Blog, RECOVERY, Series
EDIT: Check out the PODCASTED version of this post here! And stay tuned for more recorded versions of my posts, interviews, and more. Write in! Tell me how it’s going and what to improve. Onto the original post: In my first post, I mentioned how hard it was to...
by Jess | Jul 23, 2019 | Public Blog, Blog, Intro to my C-PTSD, LIVING with Complex Trauma, My Stories, RECOVERY, Series, Transcripts
EDIT: Check out the PODCAST version of this post here! And subscribe for more recorded versions of my posts! (DOES it sound like I recorded it in one go without ever listening to it? Yep. No shame. Otherwise, this shit isn’t getting recorded or posted. No need...
