No Sticks or Stones No Broken Bones: Healing cPTSD when the Trauma wasn't Physical It was naCCT: non-physically assaultive, attachment-based Chronic Covert Trauma

 

When you show up for yourself and take loving, effective action, you can follow your bliss and realize your dreams.

 With no tangible trauma to point to, confusion is normal for adults who’ve been wounded by these early non-physical traumas; many even deny they’ve been traumatized.  

 

Yet, realistically, when we’re little, subtle everyday disturbances in our lifeline relationships with mother, father, or other important caregivers can register on our bodies, minds, and spirits as threats to life itself. In a word, as ‘trauma.’” 

 

If you’ve been baffled by the sufferings caused by this silent trauma, you now have a healing guidebook written just for you.  

 

Maybe you experienced naCCTs such as: 

• Emotional, social, and/or psychological neglect. 
• Gaslighting and reality twisting, 
• “No Hugs, No Cuddles” Trauma,  
• Traumatic absence of loving guidance, interest, or understanding, 
• Physically present, (even over-involved, over-controlling, and intrusive), but psychologically unattuned (“helicopter”) parenting, 
• Being used as a parent to your own parent, a trophy child, or a “stand-in spouse,” or even 
• Hidden hostilities. 

 The trauma category of Non-physically-assaultive, attachment-based Chronic Covert Trauma (naCCT) poses unique challenges because of its subtle insidious nature.

                                                                                                                                                                                          

 Whether or not your caregiver was concerned and well-intentioned, whether or not you also experienced blatant physical assaults like beatings or incest, the overall effect of these intangible early naCCTs can cause complex PTSD, leaving you as an adult to cope struggling with physical, psychological, financial, and relationship problems and overall lack of fun, spontaneity, and meaning. 

 

 

In this life-changing book devoted to healing the hidden wounds from these early traumas, author Ricia Fleming, therapist and naCCT survivor herself, will:

• reassure you that your troubles and stuckness make sense;  
• validate that your challenges are mountains, not molehills; and 
• guide you to replace frustration, confusion, and resignation with a new level of empowerment and self-cherishing that you can tap into 24/7. 

To help you start healing today, “No Sticks or Stones No Broken Bones” will give you:

 

• Down-to-earth survivor stories you can relate to,  
• Strategies for identifying, handling, and de-activating subtle People-Triggers, painful Body-State Triggers,  and hard-to-recognize naCCT flashbacks, 
• Practical guidance and non-pathologizing support grounded in neurobiological trauma research, and 
• A toolkit of empowering information, actionable strategies, checklists, exercises, and self-talk scripts 

 

It will help you take pride in how well you have managed so far. Then it will provide you with action steps for starting to feel better right away.