To Guide Your Path – A Survivor Poem
Keep your head up, your spirits high. Keep learning new ways to fly. Choose your friends with care, Lest you stumble and not have them there. Don’t be swayed by the ways of the others you see. Their opinions won’t matter, eventually. Look for new adventures,...
Some Final Thoughts on Family Estrangement
In this series, in December, we have examined together what family estrangement is, some of its causes, and how we can learn to enjoy our lives despite being separated from our family of origin. In this article, we are going to focus on some concluding thoughts on...
The Positive Side of Family Estrangement and Creating a Family of Choice
This series on family estrangement may seem to be a strange topic to cover during the holiday season. Yet, being separated from family during Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s is a familiar occurrence for many survivors. The purpose of these articles is to offer...
The Commonality of and Coping with Family Estrangement
Family Estrangement is an emotional distancing and cessation of communication between one or more members of a family. It is the breakdown of the support from and to a person who can no longer trust their family to be on their side any longer. Often family...
The Diamond in My Heart- Poem by Jennifer “Kaylene” Carter
The Diamond in My Heart -Survivor Poem by Jennifer “Kaylene” Carter If I never accomplished another thing, Would you still love me? If I couldn’t live up to the image you see, Would you claim me? You set for me standards you never could keep, An...
‘I Can’t Remember. But…’ Insight into a New Blog Series.
As a new and honored guest writer/blogger with the CPTSD Foundation I am going to start this journey with a series of six-week short articles linking thoughts, experiences, reflections, and academia on the topic of CPTSD with a specific focus on children 0 – 4 years...
Why Do Family Estrangements Happen?
Family estrangement is a very grief-ridden and personal experience that family members face when someone leaves or driven away from their family of origin. It occurs in families of all different demographic situations, including all races, religions, and cultures. But...
A Glimmer of Hope.
A Glimmer of Hope, a Survivor Poem. (trigger warning) Those things, you know, they ripped apart my childish soul Greedily grabbed and pulled out its beating heart They chewed it up, spat it out with contempt and Stamped upon it as it lay dying in the mud. Then you...