Creative Living Alliance LLC

08/28/2025

You don’t need to be labeled to be valid.

You don’t need a DSM code to deserve support.

You don’t need a diagnosis to heal.
Your body knows what happened. And your healing is real, even if the system didn’t name it.

This blog post is for the ones who’ve always felt “on the edge” of what gets named. You are not invisible.
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08/27/2025

If therapy left you feeling unseen, misunderstood, or “resistant,” you’re not alone.

Many traditional approaches weren’t built to hold the layered complexity of cPTSD or neurodivergence.

You don’t need to push harder. You need an approach that meets you with attunement, safety, and slowness.

The blog post offers language and frameworks that might help you feel more fully seen in your healing.

🔗 Read Blog: “The Healing Thread” through the link in Bio

08/26/2025

Complex trauma isn’t measured in quantity. It’s not about comparing wounds.

It’s about what happened over time, especially when the people or systems that were supposed to care for you were the ones who caused the harm.

This kind of trauma isn’t “too sensitive.” It’s deep. And it requires care that honors that depth.

In the latest blog, we explore what makes complex trauma different, and how healing can reflect that difference.

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08/25/2025

Complex trauma isn’t just about what happened. It’s about how your body learned to survive, and how those adaptations still live in you.

Freezing, over-functioning, disconnection, fawning, these are trauma responses, not personality flaws.

Your system is wise. Healing begins when we learn to listen.

Read the Healing Thread post to understand how complex trauma rewires the nervous system, and how to begin softening it.

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08/25/2025

The PTSD framework is often too narrow to hold the experiences of people who’ve lived with long-term, relational, developmental trauma.

cPTSD offers a more accurate description, but it still isn’t recognized in the DSM in the U.S.
That doesn’t mean it’s not real. It means our systems haven’t caught up to the truth survivors have always known.

Learn the distinctions between PTSD, complex trauma, and cPTSD and why naming these matters.

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08/24/2025

It’s the trauma that happened slowly. Quietly. Repeatedly.

The kind of trauma that’s hard to name because no one around you called it trauma.

But it shaped your entire nervous system.

Complex trauma is often relational, and that means healing has to be too.

You don’t need to prove your pain to deserve support. It’s enough that it’s still living in your body.

The latest blog post helps make sense of what complex trauma actually is. It might explain more than you think.

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08/23/2025

What if the things you’ve been told are “disordered”, such as emotional reactivity, shutdown, and chronic anxiety, are actually signs of how your body protected you?

Complex trauma doesn’t always show up in flashbacks. It lives in the body. In relationships. In patterns of hyper-independence or chronic guilt.
Your symptoms are not evidence of brokenness. They’re evidence of adaptation.

Explore how complex trauma and cPTSD differ from PTSD, and how your healing might look different, too.

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08/23/2025

Some trauma is loud and obvious. Some trauma is quiet, buried, relational, and ongoing. PTSD often reflects single-event trauma, but many people live with the effects of complex trauma…patterns that formed over years, in childhood, or in systems that failed to keep them safe.

If you’ve never seen your story reflected in the word “PTSD”, that doesn’t mean your trauma isn’t real. It means we need language that honors the full spectrum of what trauma can look like.

Read my full Healing Thread 🧵 post to explore the differences between PTSD, complex trauma, and cPTSD and why they matter for your healing ❤️‍🩹
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08/23/2025

Hi! I’m Michelle. I am the founder of Creative Living Alliance, an unconventional healing space for unconventional minds.

I am dedicated to holding compassionate space for those navigating complex trauma, DID/OSDD, and neurodivergence.

My approach is radically human, creative, and rooted in authenticity. My mission is to help you honor the ways you’ve adapted to survive, and support your journey toward healing and growth.

I offer virtual sessions for adults across Pennsylvania. If you’re seeking a therapy experience that feels deeply validating and non-pathologizing, you’re in the right place.

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08/23/2025

📌Disclaimer:
Educational content.
Not therapy.
Not medical advice.

03/06/2025