CPTSD

You will feel so alive again.. like so incredibly alive. I don’t know when that will be but it will be. You are gonna feel so alive that your cheeks hurt from smiling oh man I promise that day is coming. You do have a future, you do have good things coming, and you’ll survive everything that’s thrown at you until you reach that day.

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.

You're not weird for struggling w/ phone calls. Many trauma survivors experience a very specific spike of anxiety around making (or receiving, for that matter) calls-- & many keep our reactions under wraps, because we're not "supposed" to be triggered by something so "normal."