My inner child is driving my creativity lately and she wants everything pastel and soft! Pom Pom cloud :)1yr ⋅ phantasmagoria4 ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Saving my child self as an adult. Self portrait and my first post in this sub1yr ⋅ KrazyPickles ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
I’m tired of feeling and being tired. Chronic fatigue from trauma fucking sucks2yr ⋅ hugsfrombaba ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Your inner child is closer to creativity than your rigid adult self. Trauma made us control freaks and perfectionists. Let's see what your inner child has to say. Mine likes lost civilisations.2yr ⋅ Ney-La ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
I make random animals for therapy reasons so here's a screaming goat11mo ⋅ throwawayzzzz1777 ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Different parts of me want different things...it's hard.1yr ⋅ idontknowwhattodrink ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Self portrait of a sort. My inner child beats within me, just like my heart.1yr ⋅ beesdeservebetter ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Reaching – A small acrylic painting about feeling disconnected from life's colors.2yr ⋅ yaminokaabii ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
i’m sorry if this is selfish but can someone please tell me i’m not insane1yr ⋅ notjuststars ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
This one is called “Thank you for being a kid” painted in the style that my 4th grade art skills would demonstrate.1yr ⋅ Mattaline ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
when taking family photos, i've always been shoved in some corner or a back row bc it was hard to fit everybody in the frame. i always look distorted or small or barely there... i promised my inner child to make a family portrait where she will be visible and cherished. just our portrait.2yr ⋅ nubifera ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Yesterday was the second birthday in my life that I can recall actually being genuinely happy 🙂...I painted this to celebrate! A happy little void amongst shining stars, healthy roots and a luminous moon.1yr ⋅ Aboogart ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
crayons are my comfort medium. i’m reminding myself that progress and positivity is kind, gentle, and shouldn’t come from a place of shame. i hope you are able to celebrate the little things, today.1yr ⋅ beesdeservebetter ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
I told my therapist that dissociation feels to me like being a human-shaped bath bomb fizzling out of existence, and then I decided to illustrate that too, cause why not ????1yr ⋅ ArtemisiaFlower ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Told my therapist some secrets today that have been haunting me for 15 years.1yr ⋅ PersonRobbi ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
I drew this when I first discovered what narcissism was. It makes more sense with each year that passes.1yr ⋅ llamberll ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
I bumped into a coffee shop’s marketing manager and now I have work on display for sale!1yr ⋅ EsotericOcelot ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
I’m what’s left of the little boy seated at right. The one you can see. [TW: CSA, SI]8mo ⋅ boy_becomes_cloud ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
feeling small, shameful, embarrassing, judged (old vent art, but feeling it today again)1yr ⋅ idkthrowawayblue ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
look at me (trying to personify the self-sabotage impulse thing)1yr ⋅ BirdsMakeNoise ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Self portrait of what I wasn’t allowed to express circa 19851mo ⋅ Delicious-Crow-7986 ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
I was very triggered and faced abuse today. I made this instead of self-sabotaging3mo ⋅ estelleverafter ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Drawing this using thousands of tiny dots. Patterned, repetitive activities support the trauma healing process.1yr ⋅ Awkward-Afternoon361 ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Decided to reclaim my birthday and made myself a card. Birthdays were always traumatic for me10mo ⋅ SoybeanVee ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Unlocked a core memory recently, made this crappily on my phone2mo ⋅ Delirium_tremensis ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
starting from scratch trying to learn how to draw again; art is one of many things my trauma robbed me of, i'm hoping to reclaim it3yr ⋅ throwawayforsadnews ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Today I talked to my therapist about my mother. A person who never felt joy, was never happy for me. Never encouraged or comforted me. Then she said something I probably won't get out of my head for a while.4yr ⋅ LadyWiener ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
sketch i did about how i felt having to go outside while in a flashback1yr ⋅ Short-Coconut1177 ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
i released a song this week and outted my abuser in the premiere interview1yr ⋅ Mochixpancake ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
A depiction of the religious trauma I endured on my church mission :/ I just wanted to share it with somebody1yr ⋅ Apprehensive_Life481 ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
As I work to get myself out of the tar, here's a drawing I did feeling frustrated about the therapy relationship1yr ⋅ throwawayzzzz1777 ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
When I'll be free of cptsd. A dream where I wade through an endless, warm ocean. There are no dangerous deep waters, no matter how far I may walk. Safety, peace and rest at home.2yr ⋅ Ney-La ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
I started making little mushroom people, and I opened up to the people I love and trust the most about the things I had to go through. it was a good week (:1yr ⋅ maxothecrabo ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Silence. Made this a while ago. Depending on the viewer, it can go both ways. Silence or Silenced. For me, it is both. To be Silenced - not having the freedom to express yourself, your needs and your thoughts. Silence - not wanting to speak, and being passive-aggressive.2yr ⋅ moefletcher ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
I didn't realize my contaminated identity was always just negative self-concept and not me4yr ⋅ taeowyn ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Instead of going to my physically maladaptive coping mechanisms, I drew my family who loves me!3yr ⋅ TattooPocahontas ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
40 x 60 and over 100 hours... it means a lot to me, redemptive almost, but I can’t quite pin my finger on it4yr ⋅ gallopingwalloper ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
I've been trying to visualize what my emotions feel like in my body to help get more in touch with them. This is what rage feels like for me.1yr ⋅ CrispyCrochettes ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Letting go of my internalized mother. Grieving a person that never existed in reality, only in my own head2yr ⋅ TraumaMursu ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Me dissociating to visit child me wishing I could save her. Child me realizing that the sheet never comes off.2yr ⋅ hold_my_fannypack ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Drawing I made when I was 18/19. It's about generational trauma (Sketch then digitized)4yr ⋅ insomnia_gator ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
So...I made a mini hoodie yesterday for my lion. Kind of embarrassing but I thought you guys would get it. Also, now we match :)3yr ⋅ littleseed1104 ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
You guys seemed to really like the painting of my cat:) I tried to go to bed but couldn’t stop thinking about painting so I got up and finished her. ❤️🌿🐈🐾3yr ⋅ roadkillrosie ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Little something I did with the art supplies at the preschool I work at while the kids were napping2yr ⋅ spoiledsweet ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
something I made to help last month! gaslighting recovery is hard 💕3yr ⋅ superfawn ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
i have an ASD alongside cPTSD and other mental illnesses. my heart beats really hard/fast sometimes as a result of any number of them, this is an original tattoo design i made i’d like to get after the pandemic is over.3yr ⋅ pleasepickupitsjay ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
In the before times I was starting to build out a lot of healthy things in my life... and then government regulations took that all away. When events and activities are offered virtually instead of in person, this is how it feels to me:3yr ⋅ blak7250 ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
there is no home for the holidays. this place was never home.2yr ⋅ strategiesforlife ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
I realized in EMDR that I didn't remember the other half of the closet. I remembered that I sat on the edge of the bed to watch TV and would feel something to my right that would trigger me to run like my life depended on it. I can't remember what or who made me feel so afraid in that room.3yr ⋅ wafflesoulsss ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
i grew up drawing, but as life happened, it stopped.. i was able to do this lil self portrait the other night, tho <31yr ⋅ ari_mel89 ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Recently pieced some of my past together via old poetry journals...2yr ⋅ QuietingSilence ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
The fawn in us, can only do so much in this state. she can't protect us anymore shes done it my whole life. Shes beaten down. Enter... rage. (TW: Blood/scars)2yr ⋅ ayyymelees ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
my therapist told me to paint to get my feelings out when I was having a meltdown in group3yr ⋅ sadmcd ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Hi this is a Mermug I (mer)made. I visited a ceramics studio after a terrible breakup. It was the first sculpture I ever made. It makes me happy and proud.3yr ⋅ spoiledsweet ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
I have been sexually assaulted many times by many different people starting at age 5, I have panic attacks whenever I have to get naked, for showering or consensual sex. I realized that it’s because my body is the crime scene. I can’t ever leave where it happened because where it happened is me.5yr ⋅ sadwisco ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
I got into watching Mister Rogers last year and my inner child loves it. So I decided to make some of the characters.1yr ⋅ throwawayzzzz1777 ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Oversleeper - Most of art explores disassociation. So excited to see all of your healing journey art <32yr ⋅ that1gingergirl ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
It’s nice feeling good enough to finish some art! Love to you all.3yr ⋅ littleseed1104 ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
SHAME. A part of me feels like this all the time: stuck, disgusting, worthless, helpless.2yr ⋅ yaminokaabii ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Drew my fursona from when I was..maybe 9? She got me through tough times 💙💚2yr ⋅ cowsandcocoa ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Trying to get through the feelings of soul crushing shame that come with existing around my judgemental parents so I drew this4yr ⋅ Gotsims ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Mindfulness.. my environment is safe. Im aware I am safe. yet I still don't feel safe2yr ⋅ ayyymelees ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
Recently sober and finally addressing my CPTSD. This is my self portrait that I finished over the summer:)3yr ⋅ roadkillrosie ⋅ r/cptsdcreatives
