by Angela Solic | Oct 8, 2026 | Mental Health Professional
Did you know that children do not have to be the direct target of abuse to experience significant traumatic effects of it? This is absolutely true. As a matter of fact, studies have shown that children who only witness abuse happening to one of their caregivers have...
by Angela Solic | Aug 13, 2026 | Boundaries, Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, Healing from Toxic Shame
Loving an emotionally healthy partner Here is Part 1 of this series. If the adult child finds an emotionally healthy partner, they might feel uncomfortable because this person can challenge everything they learned about love. For the adult child, love was historically...
by Angela Solic | Aug 6, 2026 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD and Parenting, Parenting With Trauma
The invisible wound When people think about childhood trauma, they might imagine bruises from physical abuse, scars on skin that remain red and thick, stories of children left alone to fend for themselves without food or comfort, or various forms of sexual assault....
by Angela Solic | Jul 22, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Emotional Wellness
Growing up without affection can shape the way we seek and avoid love. On my thirteenth birthday my mother drove me to a mental hospital in Chicago. She claimed she couldn’t ‘handle’ me anymore. That was confusing to me because I had been ‘handling’ myself and my...
by Angela Solic | Jul 10, 2026 | Betrayal, Brain Chemistry, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD Survivor Stories
In August of 1992 I ran from my home on East Goldsborough Street to the local police station. I arrived sweating, panting, my face red with fury and with the oppressive Northwest Indiana heat. I was 17 years old, and didn’t realize what I was doing until I was...
