by Cyndi Bennett | Mar 16, 2022 | Attachment Trauma, Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Post Traumatic Growth
With the advent of working from home during COVID, we have all seen and chuckled at the videos going around of people either not being on mute and wishing they were, or people being on mute and wondering why people were not listening to them. Now, there is the double...
by Ramon Diaz | Mar 15, 2022 | Combat Trauma, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor
Media in many instances, in the US, has a way of capturing news that grabs the attention of its viewers. The headlines must immediately grab you or the news story may not be worth watching, for some. In the 21st century, the issues revolving around the border...
by Shirley Davis | Mar 14, 2022 | Trauma, Trauma-Informed
Many people are ill-informed or know nothing about mental health disorders, including complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) and how it affects those around them. There are hundreds if not thousands of mental health challenges, and unfortunately, the stigma...
by Rebekah Brown | Mar 10, 2022 | Abandonment and CPTSD, Anxiety, Attachment Trauma, Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Emotional Wellness
I stood in the hallway and stared at the black and white tiled floors. On the other side of the emergency room doors, my mother’s screeches were louder than the PA system. “Let me go! I don’t want to be here. It’s their fault!” Screaming at the top of her...
by Maria Anna van Driel | Mar 9, 2022 | Anxiety, CPTSD, First Responders and CPTSD, Guest Contributor
Scenario: You find yourself in a private or business situation where mental and/or physical abuse is the order of the day for a very, very long time. It took you a while but slowly awareness is rising with you that this situation is far from being normal and healthy....
by Kelly Palmer | Mar 8, 2022 | Addiction, Guest Contributor, Recovery
Why are we so reluctant to let go of outdated ideas and concepts, terrified that we will relapse if we don’t maintain the status quo? Recovery is about stories. Stories of hope, stories of change. In addiction, the stories we tell about ourselves...
by Mari Stewart | Mar 3, 2022 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Guest Contributor, What is CPTSD
People often find it difficult to explain, or to understand Complex PTSD. I often find myself falling into metaphor or analogy to explain the experience. The reason for using an abstraction is because in Complex PTSD the particulars from one person to another vary –...
by Ramon Diaz | Mar 2, 2022 | Brain Chemistry, Guest Contributor, Trauma
Researchers discuss about how trauma causes stress levels to become unstable. I want to take a closer look at what this means. From one view, stress can point to a specific stress chemical that is produced in the adrenal glands. Adrenal glands are located on top of...
by Cyndi Bennett | Mar 1, 2022 | Childhood Sexual Abuse, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD
Sometimes, managing the symptoms of CPTSD and developmental trauma seems like a full-time job, but I already have a full-time career. How can I make it through the workday without totally falling apart? How can I continue to perform at work when I keep getting...
by Shirley Davis | Feb 28, 2022 | Abandonment and CPTSD, Attachment Trauma
The entire month of February, we discussed rejection trauma and how it affects people who grew up in abusive homes. We have discussed what rejection trauma is, how rejection trauma affects interpersonal relationships, and the freeze/fawn response. This article will...
