Pete Walker Healing Complex PTSD

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[jillianclemmons]

I feel so loved when Pete says, "It's not fair, it shouldn't have happened." Thank you for seeing us and saying that.

[joannabrites]

I am 59 and just found out what scapegoating abuse is all about. I finally have an answer for what I’ve been experiencing. Survived a ten year heroin addiction. But, I made it. I said goodbye to my family last year and I’m starting to finally heal

[janethomas]

I am 64. CPTSD developmental trauma stole my life, left me frozen in fear 24/7. But the borderlines Love to keep me as company.

[davidjaen]

Everyone should pay attention to this man, he should be famous. His book is so accurate and life changing everyone should read it because let’s face it: Almost everyone has bad childhood experiences

[jameswb]

Pete Walker is a living saint. I wish his wisdom and understanding on cptsd is wider known. I wish I had the understanding of what was happening to me when I was younger.

[clairejoness]

I've taken diary and write down all the painful memories. I cried for hours. My conclusion was that there's no way I can undo it, there's no justice for little me, no consequences for those who hurt me and I need to accept it. And that acceptance of the pain and injustice that happened to me helped me. I felt my heart melting. There's a long way to healing but I finally made the first step.

[emiliadymek]

I'm so greatful for your book. It even makes me think I might not be such a shit I think I am. And hardly anything make me feel this way nowadays. You make this world a better place. ❤ The worst thing about trama is, it can break you and you begin to repeat that cycle of abuse, but this time not as victim but as a perpatrator. But you can go another way and try to break this chain and help other sufferers. Like Chiron, wounded healer. It's so deeply ... humane? And I don't use this adjective often as a compliment 😂. Nor am I often so deeply mooved. You touch that soft spot and make me human again. Just like in that Rumi motto of your book:

When inward tenderness
Finds the secret hurt,
Pain itself will crack the rock
And, Ah! Let the soul emerge.

[distressedghost]

This book changed my life and healed me. It described my struggle with CPTSD perfectly and it felt like this book spoke to my struggles in many levels. Thank you, Pete Walker for writing this book.

[janswimwild]

Pete’s book saved me. I read it in my early 60s after abandonment by the then narcissist in my life, and in reading it I found myself. It has taken me a while to reach me but he gave me a path along which I am still travelling but now I am enjoying the journey.

I was the fawner, handmaiden, problem solver trapped in repeated narcissistic relationships. I am now practicing self love and care, lots of creativity and caring for my body so that I can finally recover from MECFS.

Thank you Pete 🙏🏼❤️

[cirella]

I am 44 and Im a fight and fawn type. I just discovered this mans work. I have 3 coping addictions: Food, cigarettes and weed. Food was used as a child, cigarettes as an adolescent and weed as an adult. I bought the book and its coming today through Amazon. I listened to videos on his book to kind of get a jump start yesterday and already I have stopped smoking weed and ate normally yesterday to just see how my body feels using a few exercised Ive learned from him to combat emotional flashbacks and it works. I am sooo grateful to have found his work. I will continue to break this cycle. God bless this man.

[shannonallen]

Pete Walker’s work has had a profound impact on my life. I see a therapist that knows him personally and uses his therapeutic approach. It has changed my life, changed the way I understand my own inner experience, and has healed so much pain. Thank you Pete, from the bottom of my heart 🙏🏼❤

[nobodyhome-jybd]

The Tao of Fully Feeling saved my life, Pete. You are a blessing unto this world. Thank you so much for your work in this field.

[OrbisonTributeArtist]

WOW! So many nuggets of truth. "The majority of emotional flashbacks are coming from the nasty way you are talking to yourself. You are just reenacting the criticism, not giving yourself a break, just totally being against yourself."

[christinap.]

Pete's work has changed me on so many levels. At first, I knew what a flashback was because it happened at certain times in my day (morning when I wake up terrifying myself). But as I continued to meditate and follow the practices he provides, I found that a majority of my day is actually playing out in a flashback. (I'm a high functioning Four F'r, ha, ha!) It's no wonder I have asthma and other heath disorders - how could I not? Like seriously, how could I NOT have health issues. Thank you, Pete, thanks for all you've done to help so many of us!

[iasydk]

I never put together before Pete just explained that, that my foggy head is part of depression. THANK YOU

[donnag.]

WOW! Pete Walker is showing up in interviews! Thank you so much! Pete, happy to see you & hear what you have to say!

[amyteurlife]

I think one thing that held me back as a child and even into adulthood was the fact that I would feel mortified if friends, neighbors, teachers would find out I am not worthy of kind treatment from caregivers and that I'm a fraud - I'm pretending to be from a good family, but I'm really not loved. - if they find out what a bad person I am, these people might even treat me bad too.

[SurprisedPika]

This is so relatable. I am a textbook fawner. I calmed my alcholic narcissistic father down and was my enabler mother's therapist. I hate them both but I am trying to forgive. I was also called gifted and precocious which is funny. Literally becoming my parents slave is so messed up.

[carolineprenoveau]

I'm only a few minutes in but already I want to comment. I never heard before of people who believe in healing the trauma first. I've been seeking treatment for 15 years, and every time, I was rejected and told that I should heal my addiction first. So I tried addiction treatments, but none of them worked because I was completely overwhelmed in those groups despite my best efforts. I was punished and blamed over and over again. The result is 15 years of failure, and no treatment for trauma whatsoever. I'm getting seriously discouraged. But hearing this, it feels like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I'm not inadequate, I couldn't heal addiction this way, not without healing trauma at the same time. I managed to stop drinking many many times, but I wasn't better. In fact, every time I managed to stop drinking, I was miserable, and it was never good enough to get treatment. Whatever I tried was never good enough, and I tried it all, I knocked on all doors, doctors, therapists, I went to meetings, I tried on my own many times, I stuck with medication with awful side effects. It's almost as if, in order to be eligible for treatment, you have to be already healed. I never lied about my addiction, because I thought I shouldn't lie to people who are supposed to help, but I thought many times since then that maybe it would have been wise to lie.

[joannabrites]

Thank god for YouTube videos or I’d be dead now. I am older and just learned what happened to me. I went no contact fast once I knew I was the family scapegoat. My brother who hated me I mean hated me from infancy until present day got his last shot at me. My Farther’s narc wife hated me and my daughter because we were close. She refused to allow us to come see my dying father. My family of course didn’t defend or stand up to her. I voiced my disappointment with my father for the first time ever and my brother called me trailer park trash. That was his last shot at me and I’m 59 yrs old.