Understand how traumatic experiences can shape our self-perception and learn strategies to rebuild and nurture a healthy sense of self-worth and confidence.

Ways To Support Someone With CPTSD: Be curious (rather than judgmental). Validate their feelings and thoughts (rather than minimizing and invalidating). Emphasize strengths (rather than deficits).

Fawning is a response or reaction to trauma where the goal is to please others and be others focused. Trauma is an experience or circumstance that overwhelms our bodies, brains, and nervous system because of the possibility of death, violence, loss, and more.