Table of Contents
Books
Blog Posts
- 7 CPTSD Behaviors that Push People Away
- BPD vs. CPTSD: How to Tell the Difference Between Trauma and Borderline?
- Top 10 Complex PTSD Triggers In Relationships
- Complex PTSD And Nightmares: Top 9 Ways to Cope
- How to Love Someone with Complex PTSD? Top 9 Suggestions
- What CPTSD Can Look Like in Everyday Life
- How to Cope With CPTSD Shame?
- How to Build a Sense of Safety With CPTSD?
CPTSD Support Communities
- Out of the Storm — CPTSD Support & Recovery Forum
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A free, survivor-focused community specifically for people affected by complex relational trauma and CPTSD. Sections cover emotional flashbacks, negative self-concept, emotional dysregulation, relationships, childhood neglect, therapy, recovery journals, and coping tools.
Free Trauma Apps
- PTSD Coach
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A free VA app available to the public. It includes trauma education, symptom tracking, coping tools, stress-management tools, and ways to find support. It is useful for CPTSD-related symptoms even though it was developed for PTSD rather than CPTSD specifically. - Coping Coach
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A free standalone app for managing stress and difficult emotions, tracking mental health, practicing coping skills, setting goals, and creating a personal support network. - CPT Coach
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A free companion app for people doing Cognitive Processing Therapy with a therapist. It contains CPT worksheets, reading assignments, symptom tracking, homework planning, and reminders. It is not intended as standalone trauma treatment.
CPTSD Podcasts
- The Complex Trauma Podcast — Sarah Herstich, LCSW
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One of the most CPTSD-specific current podcasts. Hosted by an EMDR and trauma therapist, it covers childhood emotional neglect, shame, hypervigilance, people-pleasing, freeze responses, relationships, intimacy, and complex-trauma recovery. It was still releasing episodes weekly in 2026. - Complex Trauma Recovery — Kina Wolfenstein
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A therapist-led podcast breaking complex trauma and trauma therapy into understandable pieces. Topics include attachment, trauma treatment, relationships, the body, and current debates within trauma therapy. - Hello Trauma Brain
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A lived-experience podcast about living with CPTSD and working through recovery. Recent episodes cover boundaries, estrangement, reparenting, relationships, and understanding trauma responses.
TED & TEDx Talks About Complex Trauma
- How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime — Nadine Burke Harris
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One of the most important trauma TED Talks. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains how repeated childhood abuse, neglect, household dysfunction, and chronic stress can affect development and long-term physical and mental health. - Breaking the Silence About Childhood Trauma — Dani Bostick
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Discusses how childhood trauma and PTSD can be missed or mistaken for other difficulties and why recognizing trauma histories matters. - Know Your ACEs
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Focuses on adverse childhood experiences, complex trauma, development, and how early adversity can continue influencing adult relationships and functioning.
