by Gemma Jones | Dec 22, 2022 | CPTSD and PTSD, Generational Trauma, Guest Contributor, Holidays
As we approach Christmas and another new year, it dawns on me that it will be another year without my family. Even though I do not want them to be around me it still hurts. We are told to love our families no matter what, that ‘blood is thicker than water’ but that is...
by Gemma Jones | Jun 23, 2021 | Abandonment and CPTSD, Attachment Trauma, Building Resilience in Healing, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Guest Contributor
Windy days that escape my reality to a world of internal intrigue and outside disassociation that will be forever in my psyche. Do I want to leave this world behind I do not really know as it has been my world for such an exceptionally long and the little girl in me...
by Gemma Jones | May 11, 2021 | Building Resilience in Healing, Emotional Wellness, Feeling Good Enough, Healing Self-Shame, Self-Acceptance
Strange is my life, when I glaze off into the distance looking at my willow trees in my childhood garden, in my mind, I know why I do it now so many years later. This wonderful brain gave me a way to see something beautiful when something fracturing was done to my...
by Gemma Jones | Apr 8, 2021 | CPTSD Poetry, Guest Contributor
The Wind always feels so free to me I wonder daily about life and its peculiarities, the sense of unfulfillment versus stability. The deep-seated longing but not knowing what it is or where it comes from. Is it a culmination of reality versus subconscious or simply...
by Gemma Jones | Mar 17, 2021 | CPTSD Survivor Stories, Guest Contributor
The Dreaded DSM and CPSTD According to the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) when I describe my symptoms, it advises doctors, psychologists that I would most likely have borderline personality disorder sometimes Bipolar previously known as...
