by Shirley Davis | May 22, 2019 | Healthy Relationships, Hypervigilance
Hypervigilance has been a painful part of my life since I was able to form an independent thought. If you have never experienced this phenomenon, then you do not understand how hypervigilance negatively affects the lives of those, like me, who know it intimately. In...
by Shirley Davis | May 14, 2019 | ACEs, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Trauma-Informed
There is a vital part of healing that survivors of adverse childhood experiences, who now live with complex post-traumatic stress disorder, can learn to help themselves. This piece of artillery is called resilience. Resiliency can help us overcome the life-altering...
by Shirley Davis | May 4, 2019 | ACEs, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Mindfulness, Trauma-Informed
We have spent time exploring the basics of becoming trauma-informed, and examined how mindfulness, neuroplasticity, and resiliency help form the tripod on which we begin to understand and defeat the consequences from surviving trauma. In this article, we are going to...
by Shirley Davis | Apr 26, 2019 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Healthy Relationships
Living with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) is very challenging. It affects every aspect of the lives of those who suffer under its symptoms. In this article, we are going to examine together a brief synopsis of CPTSD and how this disorder creates...
by Shirley Davis | Apr 19, 2019 | Healing from Toxic Shame, Healthy Relationships
In the last few articles, we have explored together how childhood trauma negatively impacts the ability to form lasting and loving relationships with a partner. We’ve studied the impact that having trust issues, flashbacks, loneliness, body image problems and...
