Looking for a Support Friend or Check-In Buddy!

@quickwittedCity6060

Good luck with everything you are embarking on and I really hope you get through this 🥰

Thank you, thank you!

I am hoping to do a check in soon. Maybe I can do checks in here for now :)

I am waking up triggered today. Like full-on triggered into a scream. My partner got me hot chocolate and also was on the phone with his work, as he touched me gently to wake me up. Something was triggering. This is the thing - it could be anything. A sound. A sensation. A thought. I did not catch what triggered me today. I totally caught the aftermath - the feet on fire, racing thoughts, heart pounding. I don’t know what amount of nervous system soothing I need to do today in order to help me feel at peace.

I am glad that I did not scare any children. I would probably owe my pants if I were brave enough to walk around a sleeping adult and I would scare them into a screaming response on accident.

This is a normal picture of a good morning for a person with cPTSD. So, to do the compassionate acceptance, I can… (here I would list my coping strategies if I was calmer now).

To use the charge up skill I could text a friend, which I would be doing with a text buddy. Since I am in a process of looking for a text buddy, I am checking in here. I am imagining that I am being listened to and co-regulating with a compassionate nervous system.

So, good morning to everyone who wakes up in peace. And to those who wakes up in screams. I am not broken. My nervous system has a natural reaction of a flashback. I can be with my challenging emotions.

By the way I am 40, I live with my partner and a dog. They are both out for a walk now. I could have posted my friend-request in a trauma community, I guess. lol, what if I relate to over-35 community and to trauma community and to like 10 other communities. Haha. 🤣 I have made my choice of where to post and I am sticking with it.