


C-PTSD Workbook
🧠💔 What a Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) Workbook Can Help With:
1. Understanding Complex Trauma
Unlike single-event trauma, C-PTSD is often caused by ongoing or repeated trauma—like childhood abuse, neglect, domestic violence, or emotional abandonment. The workbook helps clarify what C-PTSD is, why symptoms can feel so confusing, and that healing is possible even if the trauma happened long ago.
2. Identifying and Soothing Trauma Responses
C-PTSD often brings intense emotional reactions like shame, guilt, anxiety, emotional flashbacks, and deep-rooted self-doubt. The workbook helps individuals recognize these patterns and learn tools to soothe them—without judgment.
3. Rebuilding a Sense of Safety
People with C-PTSD often struggle to feel safe—in their body, relationships, or the world. This workbook supports the process of creating inner and outer safety through grounding, boundary-setting, and emotional regulation techniques.
4. Healing the Inner Critic
One hallmark of C-PTSD is a harsh inner voice shaped by past abuse or neglect. Many workbooks focus on softening this voice, replacing it with self-compassion, and building a more loving, supportive inner dialogue.
5. Working Through Emotional Flashbacks
C-PTSD can bring sudden, overwhelming feelings with no clear trigger. The workbook provides step-by-step tools to identify, name, and move through emotional flashbacks in a grounded way.
6. Reconnecting with Identity and Relationships
C-PTSD often impacts a person’s sense of self and trust in others. Through reflective prompts and healing practices, the workbook supports rebuilding confidence, self-worth, and healthier connections.
🌿 Who It’s For:
Adults and older teens living with symptoms of C-PTSD
Survivors of chronic trauma, especially in early life
People feeling stuck in cycles of self-blame, disconnection, or emotional reactivity
Those in therapy or working on healing independently
🧠💔 What a Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) Workbook Can Help With:
1. Understanding Complex Trauma
Unlike single-event trauma, C-PTSD is often caused by ongoing or repeated trauma—like childhood abuse, neglect, domestic violence, or emotional abandonment. The workbook helps clarify what C-PTSD is, why symptoms can feel so confusing, and that healing is possible even if the trauma happened long ago.
2. Identifying and Soothing Trauma Responses
C-PTSD often brings intense emotional reactions like shame, guilt, anxiety, emotional flashbacks, and deep-rooted self-doubt. The workbook helps individuals recognize these patterns and learn tools to soothe them—without judgment.
3. Rebuilding a Sense of Safety
People with C-PTSD often struggle to feel safe—in their body, relationships, or the world. This workbook supports the process of creating inner and outer safety through grounding, boundary-setting, and emotional regulation techniques.
4. Healing the Inner Critic
One hallmark of C-PTSD is a harsh inner voice shaped by past abuse or neglect. Many workbooks focus on softening this voice, replacing it with self-compassion, and building a more loving, supportive inner dialogue.
5. Working Through Emotional Flashbacks
C-PTSD can bring sudden, overwhelming feelings with no clear trigger. The workbook provides step-by-step tools to identify, name, and move through emotional flashbacks in a grounded way.
6. Reconnecting with Identity and Relationships
C-PTSD often impacts a person’s sense of self and trust in others. Through reflective prompts and healing practices, the workbook supports rebuilding confidence, self-worth, and healthier connections.
🌿 Who It’s For:
Adults and older teens living with symptoms of C-PTSD
Survivors of chronic trauma, especially in early life
People feeling stuck in cycles of self-blame, disconnection, or emotional reactivity
Those in therapy or working on healing independently