I read it ravenously, threads connecting in my head at a quite rapid clip. I flipped open the index, skimmed it, and started paging around the whole book 2.Īnyway, the section that first jumped out at me was chapter 5. (I’d never heard the combination of phrases ‘complex’ and ‘ptsd’) A dear friend happened to have just gotten it from Amazon, hadn’t even read it yet, but had it on hand, so I did what I often do, especially with books with such an interesting title. I chanced across this book in a very serendipitous way. No one is an island, and any time I have been able to lean into good-enough friendships 1, I feel viscerally restored and repaired, as Christopher Alexander in A Pattern Language understands repair to exist. I’ve been invited into homes and hearts, and write these words from a place in Seattle that has come to represent respite, friendship, and brotherhood. Some of you, many of you, have blessed me and cared for me in kind ways, sometimes with very little knowledge of what was going on, or why I was the way that I was. I’ve found Pete Walker’s Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving to be deeply helpful.
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