by Elizabeth Woods | Jul 16, 2026 | Boundaries
I was helping one of my friends move house recently. We’ve been friends since college, and she asked me to help her box some of her old stuff for the movers. Her teenage girls were packing up their clothes, and I couldn’t help hearing some of their conversation. They...
by Jeanne Jess | Jul 16, 2026 | ADHD, Autism, Complex PTSD and Foster Care, Complex PTSD Healing, Developmental Trauma, Dissociation and CPTSD, Emotional Wellness, Feeling Good Enough, Healing Self-Shame
Understanding Increased Vulnerability and Symptoms: Beyond the Diagnosis and Survival Instincts During all those years before I finally got the right diagnosis of PTSD and AuDHD, chronic failure was a painful part of my life, both privately and at work. I...
by Oak Arias | Jul 15, 2026 | Complex PTSD Healing, Mental Health Awareness, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD
Some children become adults before anyone notices they were children. They are not always the loudest child in the room. They are not always the child getting into trouble, asking for attention, or making their needs impossible to ignore. Often, they...
by Wendy Hoke | Jul 15, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Healing from Toxic Shame, Mental Health Advocacy
Frequently, a sexual abuse victim comes forward after many years of silence–sometimes much later in life. Doing so means facing skepticism. Why did you wait? How can you be credible now? Aren’t those false memories? That victim frequently faces dismissal...
by Tracy Guy | Jul 14, 2026 | CPTSD in Older Adults, Mental Health Awareness
One of the greatest misconceptions I encounter is that trauma belongs in the past. However, trauma is not only a historical experience but is a psychobiological process that influences emotional well-being, mental and physical health, interpersonal functioning, and...
by Rachel Grant | Jul 14, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing
So many survivors learned that rest was laziness or weakness. But when your nervous system has spent years surviving, rest is repair. What’s your relationship with rest right now? Click to watch: Opens in same window Photo Credit: Unsplash Guest Post...
by Wendy Hoke | Jul 13, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, CPTSD, Creativity, Emotional Wellness, Holidays
This project began with a piece of wood. In 2 days, I will send my two teen sons off to summer camp for a week. I will have the entire place to myself for 6 nights. I have decided to use the time to revamp my Christmas ornaments, which are an amalgam of inherited...
by Roseanne Reilly | Jul 13, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing
There is a particular kind of quiet that follows trauma. Not the peaceful kind or the kind you choose. But the kind that settles in when something inside you has gone still… or far away. And in that quiet, a thought begins to form—sometimes softly or sometimes with a...
by Craig Fredrickson | Jul 10, 2026 | Boundaries, Building Resilience in Healing
Summer can bring great weather, vacations, and gatherings. Though for many living with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) it can also induce, or bring with it, emotional exhaustion, loneliness, overstimulation, and/or painful memories. Summer can also...
by Angela Solic | Jul 10, 2026 | Betrayal, Brain Chemistry, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD Survivor Stories
In August of 1992 I ran from my home on East Goldsborough Street to the local police station. I arrived sweating, panting, my face red with fury and with the oppressive Northwest Indiana heat. I was 17 years old, and didn’t realize what I was doing until I was...
