Living Resilient Counseling

04/22/2026

“Childhood trauma can affect a person so greatly because of its presence in the time of development. Events that would normally change a person become embedded in every fiber of one's identity. It is this time of life which is so crucial to your entire future. This is the unique nature of C-PTSD, which doesn't merely change a person, it creates them. It builds every trait, interest, and understanding of the world with this toxin.
Nothing is unaffected or unaltered because all there is to alter was created by the trauma. Moving forward is not moving back to before the trauma; it is in every essence a rebirth and reeducation of life itself. To move on we cannot erase, because to erase trauma's effect we in theory erase ourselves.”
-copied from Understanding Childhood C-PTSD

04/21/2026

I understand that you need me. I also need me.

04/21/2026

04/20/2026

I do not need to wait to reach some major milestone in my life, I can choose to be happy with myself right now, exactly as I am today.

04/20/2026

Self Worth Affirmations to Build Confidence and Self Esteem:

I release myself from the versions of me I created just to survive. I’m worthy of thriving in my life, not just surviving each day.

Literally no one has life all figured out. Every human being is continually learning and I am too.

I will invest as much energy into loving myself as I invest into everyone else around me. I’m worth it.

I will live in this day, in this moment.

I have already done many hard things and I have survived 100% of my hard days so far. I can and will continue to do so.

Every day is a new beginning – a fresh, new start to think new thoughts about myself.