by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Jun 23, 2025 | Brain Chemistry, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Ethics, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Advocacy, Mental Health Professional
Let’s skip the hashtags and therapy TikToks, and Reddit and YouTube therapists for a minute. The internet has turned mental health language into a kind of social currency. And right now, it’s in a state of inflation. Everyone’s a narcissist. Every disagreement...
by Jesse Donahue | Jun 19, 2025 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Expressive Writing, Guest Contributor
The Suit of Life A Message for Self-LoveBy Jesse Donahue 2023 © I can see the powerful impact that self-expression makes upon the world of others and, most fundamentally, within myself. The morning shines with a new day rising, and we don our clothes, our suit...
by Cyndi Bennett | Jun 18, 2025 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD
Introduction This is a challenging article for me to write, as I’ve been observing the nuclear fallout of toxic leadership in my trauma recovery coaching certifying association over the past week. While I was aware of the dysfunction at the top of the house for quite...
by Betsy Roy | Jun 17, 2025 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
Repeated exposures to traumatic events. Events that overwhelm one’s sense of identity, capacity to comprehend what’s occurring, and force the body into a state of constant hypervigilance. Intrusive, repetitive, re-experiencing (memories, flashbacks,...
by Roseanne Reilly | Jun 16, 2025 | Body Chemistry, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
Taking the Edge Off Sadness There can be a sadness that emerges when we begin to truly see, when we wake up to the realization that we have lived much of our lives in survival stress. It is the grief of recognizing that our choices, our relationships, our very sense...
by Cyndi Bennett | Jun 12, 2025 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD
Introduction As leaders, many of us are driven by a deep desire to make a positive impact and support those around us. However, for those of us navigating the challenges of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD), our journey as leaders can be significantly...
by Natalie Rose | Jun 11, 2025 | CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Expressive Writing, Guest Contributor
TRIGGER WARNING: Writer’s Note: This post contains references to suicidal ideation, sexual assault, and psychiatric ward experiences. Names have been changed. Five words got me tied up on a stretcher in the back of this ambulance. Five words, starting with “I want”...
by Heather Jurvelin | Jun 10, 2025 | Cognitive Behavior Therapy, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
Vulnerability and Trust Can Be the Hardest Work We’ll Ever Do My therapist recently had the audacity to applaud my progress, reminding me that I’m “the one doing all the work.” A part of me internally screamed about how much I hated it when she said that. For the...
by Betsy Roy | Jun 9, 2025 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor
Storytelling connects us to the world around us, to the forests and mountains and critters in our city parks I believe in storytelling to understand others and ourselves. Storytelling connects us to the world around us, to the forests and mountains and critters in our...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Jun 5, 2025 | Boundaries, CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Healing from Toxic Shame, Mental Health Awareness, Mental Health Professional, Polyvagal Theory and CPTSD, Self-Acceptance, Symptoms of CPTSD
It often looks like compassion. It often gets praised as loyalty. But for many trauma survivors, the behavior known as the fawn response isn’t about kindness—it is about survival. The fawn response is the least recognized of the four primary trauma reactions: fight,...
