by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Sep 28, 2026 | CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
A child in a chronically unsafe home learns quickly that identity can wait. Personal safety, knowing how to read the room, keeping the peace, figuring out which parent is drunk, which parent is angry, which sibling is about to be targeted, which truth cannot be said,...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Sep 21, 2026 | Anger, Emotional Wellness, Mental Health Professional
During my years as a trauma therapist, I heard three words used as if they were interchangeable: frustrated, irritable, and angry. Patients used them that way, families used them that way, and sometimes professionals drifted into the same habit. This was especially...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Sep 7, 2026 | Mental Health Professional
I read Flowers in the Attic when it first came out in the late 1970s, and it horrified me before I understood why. I was young enough then that I did not have the clinical language for caregiver betrayal, childhood captivity, attachment injury, or complex trauma. I...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Aug 24, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Healing Self-Shame, Mental Health Professional
Ask some trauma survivors to name five (5) positive things about themselves and watch what happens. The room may go quiet, they may nervously laugh, deflect, look uncomfortable, make a joke, or reach for traits that sound useful instead of personal. Reliable....
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Aug 18, 2026 | CPTSD
Some trauma survivors ask for help late. Very late, actually. Not when the problem first starts, or when the first warning sign shows up. Not when they are tired, scared, overloaded, sick, confused, or beginning to slip. They ask when the situation has...
