by Jesse Donahue | Apr 15, 2024 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Mindfulness
Obedience to the light, the authentic self-image felt from deep within, a calling. It is set against an illuminating seductive “delusion” developing, in a lifelong desperate striving to succeed, to become the ace in a gambler’s magic deck of cards… the false...
by Jesse Donahue | Mar 27, 2024 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Expressive Writing, Guest Contributor
Books in elementary school… remember, or did your elementary school have a book day? Buying books that would arrive in a big box that the teacher would distribute to the purchasers/students, class. I used to buy them for the fancy covers, the sense of ownership of a...
by Jesse Donahue | Mar 20, 2024 | ACEs, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor
The sins of the parents are relived in the lives of the children; on and on it goes, and where it stops nobody knows During my walk this morning I saw, through my ongoing educating eyes of learning about C-PTSD, the horrible childhood my mother had endured. Her real...
by Jesse Donahue | Feb 29, 2024 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Shame
***TRIGGER WARNING***Some material in the following text could potentially be triggering. A poisonous state, a toxic infiltration into a previously calmed sense of one’s equilibrium. To be shamed, is to stand diminished in the eyes of your loved ones, extended...
by Jesse Donahue | Feb 14, 2024 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor
I have always had a problem sticking with things, or finishing things and all too often attempting things I may have a brief inspirational interest in. The lack of stick-to-itiveness may be seen by myself and others as lazy, or I was not interested after all. This has...