by Angela Solic | Jun 4, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, Healing Self-Shame, Post Traumatic Growth
Trigger Warning: This post contains references to traumatic childhood experiences, including recalled memories of abuse and descriptions of the author’s trauma responses. Please take care while reading. I’m surprised I wasn’t born wearing a tiny pair of...
by Ruthann Alexander | Jun 3, 2026 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Life Management Skills, Self Regulation
It’s a gloomy winter evening, my seasonal depression is at its worst, and I’ve just finished a difficult day at work. What’s keeping me together? Ripping, cutting, arranging, and gluing pieces of textured paper down on a page in my art journal. My mind goes from...
by Ellen Tift | Jun 2, 2026 | ACEs, Anger, Anxiety, Attachment Trauma, Betrayal, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Flashbacks, Grief, Healing from Toxic Shame, Self-Acceptance
Your day’s going fine until BAM! You crumble in shame over a dumb thing you said when you were 15. Let’s talk about “shame flashbacks”, how they haunt complex trauma survivors, and how to break free. The Aftershocks of Childhood Shame: A Guide...
by Elizabeth Woods | Jun 1, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, CPTSD, Healing from Toxic Shame, Healing Self-Shame, Hope
It’s official, my MFA is in the bag. I did it! I have achieved a Master’s degree in Writing. It’s a dream come true for me. Something I could only dream about over the years. My dream started when I was about four or five years old. I was living a nightmare childhood....
by Roseanne Reilly | May 28, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, Feeling Good Enough
There is a quiet longing many recovering from CPTSD carry: the desire to feel free again. Not to be overwhelmed by emotion, not to shut it down, but to feel without fear of what might happen inside. And yet, for so many, this feels just out of reach. It is not because...
by Ellen Tift | May 26, 2026 | CPTSD, Depression, Emotional Wellness, Grief, Isolation, Loneliness, Self Care
When basic tasks drain all your energy and what seems easy for others feels impossible for you, this isn’t weakness. It’s your nervous system protecting you. Here’s why it happens and how to heal. When Trauma Leaves You In Hibernation Mode Have you...
by Elizabeth Woods | May 25, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Healing from Toxic Shame
My name is Elizabeth, and I am a survivor of sexual abuse and trauma. I endured things, terrible things when I was growing up. I was just a young sprout, but my lack of years and stature failed to tell everyone what I had already lived through and seen with my young...
by Rachel Grant | May 21, 2026 | Betrayal, CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
I recently had the great joy of connecting with Stacey Fitzgerald. She is a Certified Nutritionist, Somatic Breathwork Practitioner, Trauma-Informed horse trainer, Singer/Songwriter, Wife, Mother, and Creator of Becoming Safe–an online course and community for...
by Natalie Rose | May 20, 2026 | CPTSD, Dreams, Guest Contributor, Insomnia, Nightmares, Sleep
Driving home, I couldn’t contain my excitement. Tonight, I told myself, I’m going to have the best sleep of my life. I had saved up a few hundred bucks to purchase a singing bowl. I had heard they’re miracle workers for people with sleep issues, and I...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | May 19, 2026 | CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
People do not always hold onto what harms them because they are irrational. A lot of the time, they hold onto it because they know what is waiting underneath. That is the part public talk about addiction still gets wrong. It treats the substance as the whole problem,...
