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Complex, Not Broken

My Journey, Healing from CPTSD

Complex, Not Broken is a place where I explore what it means to live with trauma and still choose to rebuild.

I write about therapy, EMDR, triggers, progress, and the everyday realities of living with CPTSD. My goal isn’t to teach — it’s to be honest.

Healing isn’t linear, and neither is this blog. It’s a collection of thoughts, memories, and reflections as I piece together the parts of myself that trauma once tried to take.

Healing

  • what growing up as a sex object does to your adult self

    As I continue to heal, as I lay in bed on a Sunday under the covers telling myself over and over it’s okay, it’s okay to feel your hurt. It’s okay to exist. It’s okay for you to just be in this moment right now. a familiar feeling of loneliness comes across the need for… Read more

  • Having a birthday with CPTSD – WHy Isolation is my biggest gift.

    So here it is, my birthday…. along with all other ‘normal’ yearly celebrations I dread them to the point where I just wish I could get glamourised (like in Tru Blood) one of my series that I am obsessively re-watching for 10 hours a day at the moment. Glamorized or zapped with the memory deleter… Read more

  • Intro – Behind the Blog

    Welcome to my Blog, here is an intro as to why I started the blog and who I am. I am a 37 year old woman who has a unique look on living with CPTSD. I am by no means healed, or even in a state of stability. However I feel I wanted to share… Read more

  • Pre-emptive FIGHT OR FLIGHT

    Pre-emotive fight or flight. My experience healing from CPTSD Read more