017. Deciding To Stay or Go

Heal First Then Pick Your Life Partner: Help With Healing CPTSD

In this episode, I share five powerful inquiries to explore before you make the choice to stay or go. These practices will help you pause, contain the intensity of your emotions, and bring discernment into a decision that could shape the rest of your life.

In this episode you'll learn: ✦ How to master emotional containment so you are not forcing needs, lashing out, or slipping into victimhood to get attention ✦ How to evaluate the balance of responsibility in your relationship or environment ✦ How to notice "reaches" — the ways you may avoid discomfort or grasp for relief that doesn't serve you ✦ How to recognize and eliminate negative influences that destabilize your healing ✦ How to conduct a values assessment so your decision is anchored in your True Self, not survival mode

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NOTE: I recommend that you share and discuss the RELEASE resources with your doctor. The information in the RELEASE resources is not medical advice. The RELEASE resources have been designed to help your doctor to help you.

CPTSD Medicine Self Study

In a relationship, but wondering if you should leave? → Begin the Red Flag Learning Path to recognize trauma-driven patterns and rebuild your inner compass toward love that doesn't hurt.

Just been broken up with and need answers to feel sane again? → Explore the "Why Is This Happening to Me?" Study for clarity, validation, and grounded relief after heartbreak.

Thinking your career is hurting your love life? → Start the Overachiever's Audit Study — a 10-minute self-reflection to see where achievement has become protection and how it may be blocking intimacy. Can't stop fighting in your relationship? → Follow the Fight Smarter Field Guide — a self-guided learning experience to understand your conflict patterns and practice responses that lead to repair, not regret.

Continue your Self Study at cptsdmedicine.com/selfstudy

Each Learning Path begins with the questions that keep you up at night and reveals the truths most therapies never name.

Move from possession by trauma energies to life led by Self Energy. Work With Tanner

Enrollment is open for Happily Ever After, the six-month CPTSD Resolution and trauma recovery experience for high-functioning professionals. If this episode resonates and you're ready to heal your CPTSD at the root, learn more about Happily Ever After. About Dr. Tanner Wallace

Dr. Tanner Wallace, PhD and IFS Level 3 Practitioner, is the creator of CPTSD Medicine, a research-grounded and spiritually integrated framework that helps high-achieving professionals resolve CPTSD at the root. Her non-pharmaceutical method unburdens trauma energies, amplifies Self Energy, and teaches Self Leadership so humans can move from survival to sovereignty. About the CPTSD Medicine Podcast

Hosted by Dr. Tanner Wallace, the CPTSD Medicine Podcast explores CPTSD healing and trauma recovery without medication. Learn why unresolved CPTSD impacts love, work, and self-trust, and study a structured path toward secure attachment, emotional safety, and lasting love. Designed for successful professionals ready for real CPTSD resolution at the root.