What Is A C-PTSD Safety Kit?

Have your C-PTSD symptoms ever flared up so badly that you can't get on with your day? Have you ever felt like you don't know how to make it better? That, my friend, is an example of C-PTSD controlling your life.

Well, that doesn't need to happen anymore because I'm giving you a C-PTSD Safety Kit.

Your C-PTSD Safety Kit is a personalized “first-aid resource” full of fast-acting tools to use when your most intense symptoms show up. The point isn’t to use this to cure your C-PTSD, it is to provide you with techniques to fall back on in the short term so that you can continue your day.

So, What Is Inside The C-PTSD Safety Kit?

Here are some common examples of tools YOU can introduce into YOUR safety kit to reassure yourself when your C-PTSD symptoms are stopping you from living the life you want:

Leaning on your “angels”

Fast-acting grounding hacks

Instant mood boosters

Self-care shortcuts

The ultimate crisis response

This blog shows you some of the tools in my safety kit and the steps required to build and manage your own. Once built, you must actively use the tools inside your kit. It is not enough to write a few ideas, glance over them, and think “Yeah, I can see how this could be useful”. If you want to improve your life, you must take action.

And guess what? Because I ACTUALLY want you to do this, I’ve made it easy for you! Take my safety kit template in the next section and edit it to make your own version using a free pdf editor. (Oh and, because I love making things easy for you I’ve included this video to show how you can do that).

Once you have your kit assembled, it's time to use it. If you don’t use it, you really will lose it. Practice each tool at least once a week and practice when your symptoms aren’t flaring up because your brain will associate the tool with a calm version of you. That means when you use your safety kit (during a panic attack, depressive episode, anything!) your brain will connect the tool with a positive feeling. Genius.

So, let's get on with it…

How To Build Your Own Kit

Step One - Download The **Free** Safety Kit Template

Head to this page to download your own Safety Kit Template, it will be sent straight to your inbox! (make sure to check your junk)

Step Two - Build Your Kit

In the template, I have included examples of how I build each section. First, I identify the symptom I want to manage. Then, I identify tools that could be used to mitigate that symptom. Simply go through each symptom and personalize it for symptoms and coping techniques that work for you. (reminder... watch this video showing you how to edit a pdf for free!)

Always include more than one tool per symptom so you have backups if one isn’t working effectively.

Step Three - Use & Review Your Kit

You’re only going to feel an improvement if your tools are well-matched to your symptoms and if you USE them consistently. That is why it is essential to perform a weekly review of your safety kit. During this review, you refresh your tools by enhancing those you use, removing those you don’t, and adding alternatives where the backups aren’t working. Once you have a strong set of tools you can drop this review frequency to monthly.

Remember, though, a tool needs about one month of consistent usage to be properly tested so don’t be too quick to remove tools!

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