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20 Ways To Improve Your Mental Strength: It’s Never Too late to Start New Habits

20 Ways To Improve Your Mental Strength: It’s Never Too late to Start New Habits

by Elizabeth Woods | Oct 22, 2025 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor

Mental Health Matters Most of us start the new year with resolutions and new habits for a better future. As the weeks go on and normality kicks in, most of us lose those promises somewhere on the way. Why is it so hard to keep those New Year’s resolutions? It’s...
Struggling with Trauma memories? This is for you.

Struggling with Trauma memories? This is for you.

by Elizabeth Woods | Oct 16, 2025 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor, Triggers

How Finding the Right Therapist Was The Best Thing I did. Hey there. How are you doing today? Are you enjoying the weekend? In this article, I’m going to share with you how getting the right therapist was the best thing I did for myself. I am not ashamed to admit that...
How a Song Can Set My Day Back By Decades

How a Song Can Set My Day Back By Decades

by Elizabeth Woods | Oct 8, 2025 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Creativity, Guest Contributor, Self Care

Do you listen to music? Music and the Arts are wonderful pastimes, and many of us enjoy relaxing to songs streaming in our ears. I don’t leave the house without my earbuds. My kids have fun choosing and playing music in the car on the school run. I wear my earbuds...
Are You Living On Auto-Pilot? 5 Proven Ways to Get Back to the Lane of the Living

Are You Living On Auto-Pilot? 5 Proven Ways to Get Back to the Lane of the Living

by Elizabeth Woods | Oct 1, 2025 | Brain Chemistry, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Workplace Trauma

Hey, how are you doing today? Are you having a good day, or a not-so-good day? Have you stopped to take a break and take care of yourself? We live in a fast-paced world, where results appear more important than the people working on achieving them. The internet is...
Are You Living in Fear? (Stuff We Don’t Talk About)

Are You Living in Fear? (Stuff We Don’t Talk About)

by Elizabeth Woods | Sep 22, 2025 | ACEs, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor

This post is darker than my normal posts, but I feel it’s time to address it. Fear. How are you doing today? I mean, really. Are you having a good day, or a not-so-great day? I’m deliberately not saying the word “bad.” Bad is a word that is used way too often and...
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