by Jesse Donahue | May 22, 2024 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor
Honestly, I thought that creative spark within might have abandoned me for good This hasn’t happened to me for quite some time now; inspiration is tugging at my brain, heart, and soul, prompting me to begin writing this vision I’ve been entertaining. Honestly, I...
by Jesse Donahue | May 9, 2024 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
From where do I come, and what do my own eyes see, and perceive in my world? Let us be clear: it is a personal choice for individuals to awaken from their societal slumber and commit to doing the right thing, a decision made consciously to become a better person....
by Jesse Donahue | Apr 22, 2024 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
Stepping into the Shoes of Who You Are is a nice metaphor for coming to wear the shoes of who you are—perhaps for coming back to wearing… once again. Here I am, standing in the depression of a gut-ugly emotion-tinged experience and habitually wearing a cleverly...
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...
