What is PTSD and what does it really look like? The qualifications for a diagnosis of “trauma” are much more defined than most people realize. Signs trauma has affected your day-to-day life- flashbacks, intense prolonged distress, avoidance, negative alterations in thoughts and mood, detachment and estrangement from others, inability to experience positive emotions or arousal reactivity, difficulty with concentration and attention, and sleep disturbance.

In this episode of Initiated Survivor, I’m opening up and sharing my personal experience with trauma anniversaries and how I navigated my 10 Year Anniversary of Sexual Assault. I discuss what trauma anniversaries are, how they affect survivors, and share coping strategies for getting through them. If your trauma anniversary is coming up, or you know someone who has one approaching, this episode was made specifically to give you tools to cope and heal.