Healing From Complex Trauma & PTSD/CPTSD

A journey to healing from complex trauma.


Empathic anger, empathy distress….all part of real empathy.

I have the capacity for deep empathy and I do for people’s suffering. I don’t believe that having empathy is about being all nicey nicey, lovely lovely…

I believe real empathy, involved empathic anger at the way people are treated, the way society often treats people already so badly hurt and in pain.

I love humanity…I desperately don’t want any suffering.

But, I don’t like society, most of it.

The selfishness, the increasing narcissism I see so clearly, the increasing abuse not many seem bothered about.

I don’t like all the apathy, all the egocentricity. I don’t like all the push for outer success, outer happiness. I don’t like all the shaming that goes on, in society and within religion. I don’t like people enjoying seeing others getting hurt. Continue reading