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...
by Jesse Donahue | Jan 24, 2024 | Addiction, Brain Chemistry, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor
What a monumental effort, an amazing journey of self-discovery to go with no coffee for twelve days. The title says twelve days, but by the time of writing this, fourteen days was the real duration. There has been suffering and addiction in my life; talk about...
by Jesse Donahue | Nov 14, 2023 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor
Trigger Warning: Please be kind to yourself as you read.In the Beganning… There was darkness and I was blind, oblivious to the truth, and indeed conditioned to be how I was. Until that day when I came to see, no, to feel, to know, there was a new way forward and not...
