The Childhood Trauma/CPTSD/ACEs Group

This is a group to create an item/servitor/mandala that deals with ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and Complex PTSD, specifically.

Ideally, I would like any work done by this group to be shared with others as free fields. I believe this is the best way to get @Captain_Nemo’s attention to this topic. If a custom NFT is all that can be produced, then that is fine as well. I’m simply noting that a large amount of our population has this and there is no specific treatment for it that targets all of its aspects.

Why?

In the largest study conducted on ACEs, it was found that 67% or 2/3s of the participants had at least 1 ACE.

12% of the participants had 4 or more ACES.

ACEs are extremely common amongst empaths and those who are energy sensitive, which makes up a large amount of this forum. I would wager that the majority of us who are here and seeking healing have more than 1 ACE, based on my experiences here and reading all your posts.

Why should I take this seriously?

The study found found that the presence of four or more serious adverse experiences during childhood greatly increased adults’ risk for alcoholism, drug abuse, suicide attempts, and poor general health.

In Sebern Fisher’s book Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Calming the Fear-Driven Brain, she observed that childhood trauma creates brain damage. You need healthy, loving parents for your brain to grow. Without the presence of such, parts of your brain will not activate.

This can lead to things like poor impulse control, symptoms similar to ADD/ADHD, and inability to form healthy connections with others, to name a few.

ACEs are not just the cause of mental health issues, but also physical ones. If you’re suffering from anything physical, the presence of ACEs may be the cause.

It found that many chronic diseases in adults are determined decades earlier, by experiences in childhood. The risk factors/behaviors for these diseases are initiated during childhood or adolescence and continue into adult life.

Why not use the PTSD field?

Complex PTSD and PTSD are vastly different.

PTSD can be obtained after one event. You can heal that event and for the most part be done with PTSD.

Complex PTSD occurs if you live somewhere that is consistently traumatizing. That means you’re beaten regularly, or shamed regularly. Violence can often be random, and you almost NEVER feel safe in this environment. Its constant, unending fear and anxiety.

Even if you’re not beaten or harassed, simply being neglected by your parents and never having a consistent source of encouragement of love can lead to the development of CPTSD.

The PTSD field definitely helps, but its not specifically tailored for this.

How should we go about tackling this?

I certainly have some ideas based on years of reading about topics related to trauma. I believe the best way to tackle this issue is from different perspectives.

I would love for this field to address all specific issues listed on Pete Walker’s website.

For example, dealing with all 14 common inner critic attacks listed on his site.

There is the neurological perspective that deals with areas of the brain consistently shutting down in response to triggers (called “emotional flashbacks”) here that has to be disabled. This could be a function of integrating the original PTSD field with this custom. Not just the disabling of a fear response, but leading one to take positive, beneficial actions in response to triggers.

In addition, a field like Archetype of Parental Love, that fills one with consistent good thoughts about themselves. One of the most common aspects of CPTSD is the inability to think good about yourself regardless of what you do.

This is called “Toxic Shame.” It is shame caused not by feeling that one has done something bad, but one is inherently bad and flawed. Its at the root of Codependency and CPTSD.

Forming strong, healthy connections to others is also essential to conquering CPTSD. This field should work to attract those who we could have healthy relationships with, allow us to begin repairing unhealthy relationships, or leave relationships that can not be salvaged.

Those who have CPTSD often have very bad attachment styles. Either they are very dismissive or avoidant of relationships, or they are extremely clingy and afraid of being abandoned. This field should work to allow one to have a healthy attachment style and resolve codependency on others. The concept of “not needing anyone, but happy to have them” or something along those lines.

More ideas are welcome. I have to work tomorrow so I am turning in and will add more as necessary tomorrow.

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@Beltloop you know… I’d love if we can have a field for that, i mean… that’s almost everything i need to address in my life, at least the very base.

I’d also love if this can help the whole world…
and not just nft owners.

It’s one of these human issues where you can find everywhere, different intensities and levels, yet they are all experiencing the same thing.

And most are really unaware of it.

@Beltloop thank you for initiating something huge like this… :yellow_heart:

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You’re welcome, Desiree.

Ideally, I would like any work done by this group to be shared with others as free fields. Many of the concepts already exist as free fields, so this would really be a recombination.

I believe this thread is the best way to get @Captain_Nemo’s attention to this topic as it would get lost in the requests thread.

Just like you, I’d love to help the whole world with this issue as well.

Many of the ideas for addressing this already exist, this would be a recombination of such fields like Amygdala Releasing, PTSD fields, Archetype of Parental Love, etc.

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To be able to give love without expectations. I think that alone can be really nice to add :slightly_smiling_face: carefree you know

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It’s a lesson learnt lol, but it’s more so a state @anon25711007 or a presence where your actions are coming only from a place of love, and that love is also very purified, a very higher version than what we ‘normally’ know.

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Also add inner beauty reflects outward. Most of the time our goodness is hidden because of trauma. That can be really good combination

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I love both ideas @anon25711007 and I love what you added @Desiree.
That would take care of a lot of attachment issues and codependency for people.

Another idea I had that is particularly suited for this field is dealing with The 4 Fs.

The article is much more comprehensive than what I can post, but I’ll create a summary for the sake of the thread.

People who have CPTSD tend to deal with it in 4 ways:

Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn, or a combination of these.

Everyone knows the fight type. They’re the ones who deal with their trauma by toughening up. They’re often very angry, loud, and try to dominate situations. This is just a reaction to their trauma and actually comes from great inner pain.

Flight types are the people who are always moving. They try to stay ahead of their pain by doing as much as they possibly can. Work-aholics often fall into this category and people can often develop OCD if they fall into this category.

Freeze types deal with trauma by disassociating. People who escape into video games, drugs, or live in a fantasy world are often freeze types.

The Fawn types are the “go along to get along” type people, who deal with their trauma by basically cowtowing to what others in their life tell them to. Its the classic mamas boys, and daddy’s girls, or the people who are overly nice and can often use that as a weapon.

These are gross over simplifications, but I believe dealing with your preferred way of handling traumas should be addressed so one can bring a number of responses to their day to day life.

On the physical side, one of the things I have been using to address my trauma is simply breathing.

When your brain gets triggered, your breathing is often the first thing to go. So if we can put a combination of Breathe of the Belly and the new lung field in there we can begin to be more present, notice our reactions and choose better ones.

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I went ahead and changed the title of the thread to include Childhood Trauma since it wasn’t exactly clear to begin with.

For @Captain_Nemo’s sake I will begin listing concepts/fields that we already have that could be added to this field and the explanations why below.

I’ll be updating this as the thread progresses.

Grief, Loss, and Loneliness
Inner Beauty Reflected Outward
Archetype of Parental Love
PTSD help
trauma release and healing
love/gratitude/appreciation
amygdala healing +fear release
Regain Your Innocence

Grief, Loss, Loneliness:

Grief plays one of the most essential roles in recovery from CPTSD.

A core pore of CPTSD is emotional flashbacks.

An emotional flashback is when something triggers you and you’re immediately back to feeling like a kid.

For example, say you’re an adult now and at your job your manager wants to talk to you. For many with CPTSD this would cause them to go back to a feeling state they had as children, when their possibly emotionally/physically violent parent wanted to “talk to them.” Now this adult of so many years is basically trapped feeling like a kid, believing his boss is going to fire him or something else thats extreme.

Emotional flashbacks are regressions that take the survivor back to the excruciating statesof fear, humiliation, abandonment, helplessness and hopelessness that he nearly drowned in during childhood. Grieving is an irreplaceable tool for metabolizing and resolving the overwhelming feelings that arise during emotional flashbacks.
Grieving aids the survivor immeasurably to work through the innumerable death-like experiences of being lost and trapped in emotional flashbacks. Grieving also supports recovery from the many painful, death-like losses caused by childhood traumatization. Recoverees need to grieve the death of safety and belonging in their own childhoods the death of their early attachment needs. They need to mourn the myriad heartbreaks of their frustrated attempts to win approval and affection from their parents.

Inner Beauty

Archetype of Parental Love

CPTSD is usually developed as a response to not having parental love or being actively persecuted by your parents in some way. I use this field almost daily to calm myself. Having a version of this tailored to make the state of parental love permanent in the user would be perfect.

One of the ways to deal with CPTSD is to learn to “Mother and father yourself” in place of your parents or guardians who couldn’t do so.

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There is a huge potential for this and one that is not based off any fields. It’s easier for us to “speak in fields” because it conveys the concepts much faster and gets the point across in a way where ends meet, but this one can be really special. Lots of researches, new techniques, and personal experiences out there that we wouldn’t need to multilayer fields.

Also, Captain doesn’t want this lol, obviously and rightfully so.

I wanted to say this much earlier, but— let’s keep the potential in this one as high as it can be :)

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you may want to add:
PTSD help
trauma release and healing
love/gratitude/appreciation
amygdala healing +fear release

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I forgot to mention. This

And also. Such traumas has so much draining energy especially in the frontal head area to heart center. These are playing big role to stop that leakage. So sealing those areas quite important

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I agree with you wholeheartedly, I definitely want something custom and special, but giving a good idea of where to start from may be useful as well.

I don’t know what Captain will do in the end, but I do know that the more custom concepts he has to bring, the more expensive the field becomes if he does create a custom.

At least by providing him a list of fields he’s already made, the task of creating this new one would make our final product less expensive.

Also, many of these old fields aren’t as strong as the new ones and don’t include concepts like negentropy or others that would be useful now.

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I’m waiting for him to come here while saying: “Uhum! well,…” :joy:

Anyway, don’t worry about the price. :slightly_smiling_face:
but almost everyday we see a field or an NFT comes out. So, even if he decides to start such a project, he will do it based on the schedule.

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I just wanted to clarify, is this for adults who experienced a traumatic event/psychological trauma in childhood?

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That is 100% correct @maTata

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Other helpful already existing fields that were not mentioned before but that can help:

  • Become Whole
  • The Inner Pillar of Power
  • Self Love and Acceptance
  • The Outlook Retrainer
  • Attract More Love Into Your Life
  • Raise Your Vibrational State / Ascension tag / Light and Vibrational Guidance
  • The Unbreakable
  • The Tower of Power (Holy Light)
  • All the 4 chakra healing audios
  • My Personal & Emotional Supporter
  • Curse Removal
  • Angelic Intercession
  • Pure Magnetic Heart Coherence
  • The Torsion Field

Understanding the actual trauma:

  • Ego Dissolution
  • Conceptual Realizations
  • Depths of your Soul
  • Higher Self Connection
  • Imaginarium Divine
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XD dream will have lot of sweat making this one field…

Now that I read your comment, I should say that getting rid of childhood traumas seems to be a journey that may take time to fulfill. Creating one field out of all these fields seems to need a mass of work that now I even don’t know whether it’s possible or not. It will become a million dollar track!

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Really loved the work you’ve put into the introduction, and agree so much with all of this Beltloop :slight_smile:

In my experience, the most serious gains I have had regarding this topic were always through experiences in the physical and constant social interactions as you’ve underlined it. Not in meditation.

Though specialists help tremendously, such as Kinesiologists or EMDR :slight_smile:

Something that could assist that process could be great indeed, I’m thinking about something in the same line as the Unbreakable or a smart field for those two above?

Among the new releases, the crucible of mental space has been great since yesterday btw :ok_hand:

I’m in for further research and help :slight_smile:

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Also just starting to experiment with the Vagus Nerve stimulation field.

I watched a powerful livestream from Dr Jeffrey Thompson yesterday about its importance and role in our gut-brain connection (a lot of our traumas being stored there), then read some articles about the Vagus and PTSD.

Looks promising

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