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Complex PTSD: When Closeness Activates Survival
Trauma and Nervous System, Attachment and Relationships, Somatic Healing Laura Quintanar, MS, LPC-S, RYT 200 Trauma and Nervous System, Attachment and Relationships, Somatic Healing Laura Quintanar, MS, LPC-S, RYT 200

Complex PTSD: When Closeness Activates Survival

There is a kind of pain that lives in wanting closeness and fearing it at the same time. This piece explores complex trauma through a somatic, relational lens—how it takes shape in early relationships and systems, how it lives in the body, and how healing unfolds slowly through safe, attuned connection.

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