by Jesse Donahue | Jul 1, 2026 | Boundaries
How do we perceive, interpret, or process the reality of human behavior that goes on around us? The best answer is: “very carefully.” When another’s presence approaches our self-imposed safety bubble or personal space, we have choices about how to interpret the...
by Jesse Donahue | Mar 26, 2026 | CPTSD, Dissociation and CPTSD, Self Regulation, self trust
I have spent years struggling in Schools, from elementary to middle school, high school, and finally, many, far too many years at two-year colleges. I have several degrees from those junior colleges, so I am not an ignoramus, nor am I an intellectual; yet I often sit...
by Jesse Donahue | Mar 17, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Healing Self-Shame, Self-Acceptance
There she strolled, with a designed grace, one foot forward after the other, pushing, dispensing, oozing that life’s source, that vibrant something. Something spoken, wildly, emboldened to dare tell, to call out the imperative want and hunger that is human...
by Jesse Donahue | Jan 7, 2026 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor
WHAT IS THE POINT?By Jesse Donahue © 2023 Love, the theme of many songs and found in the words of poets, theologians, and philosophers alike, is too often hidden from man by his experienced and internalized traumas Consciousness is the ‘point’ of the Universe. Without...
by Jesse Donahue | Nov 25, 2025 | ACEs, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor, Self Care
The Silent Majority – and Finally, Self-LoveBy Jesse Donahue 2024 © No matter what you think, believe, feel, say, or do, there will be a percentage of people out there who disapprove, possibly vehemently disagree with what you do, and/or who you are This essay...
