Healing From Complex Trauma & PTSD/CPTSD

A journey to healing from complex trauma.

Volunteering went well – but exhausted again.

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tired

So much I could write about today, but I have virtually no energy to write.

I realise there are many reasons why volunteering is emotionally and physically draining, but I am glad I did it.

I think the anxiety, the hypervigilance of being in a new environment and around new people….. plus all these people who came in today for the food and told me some of their stories, plus a few volunteers were in tears about their own personal lives and I was concerned about them, being empathic as I am and feeling other people’s emotions with them ….  all made it a pretty full on day for me.

So drained.

But, that’s okay.

Author: Healing From Complex Trauma & PTSD/CPTSD

I am a survivor of complex and multiple trauma and abuse, who at the age of 40, began my healing journey. I am using my journey to recovery and healing, to help others, to help survivors feel less alone, validated, encouraged and to enable others to understand themselves more. Complex trauma, particularly from severe, prolonged childhood abuse, is profoundly life changing. Complex trauma produces complex adults. The journey to recovery is a painful, often lonely, emotional daily challenge and it is my aim to encourage others in their daily battle. ~ Lilly Hope Lucario

2 thoughts on “Volunteering went well – but exhausted again.”

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  1. Pen of the Sheep
    April 23, 2015 at 6:06 pm

    Bless you sister “anything you do for the least of these you have also done for Me”