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...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Jul 9, 2026 | Hypervigilance
Some trauma survivors are strangely good in a crisis. Not pretend-good. Actually good. They can make the call, pack the bag, drive through the storm, calm the child, read the room, manage the drunk relative, talk someone down, hide their own fear, remember...
by Lawrence Mieczkowski, MD | Jul 8, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Mental Health Professional, Post Traumatic Growth, Therapy
For most of my life, I described my childhood as merely difficult. It was a sanitizing word, one that painted over abuse, neglect, and chaos with a veneer of normalcy. To the outside world, I seemed to be living the American dream. I was a successful...
by Roseanne Reilly | Jul 8, 2026 | CPTSD
I’m sharing this not only as a practitioner, but as a woman who has lived this. As someone with a history of trauma—and someone who has committed deeply to her own inner work—I recognize these patterns not just professionally, but personally. I see them often in the...
by Oak Arias | Jul 7, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Post Traumatic Growth
Some children become adults before anyone notices they were children. They learn early how to pay attention. They notice tension before anyone speaks about it. They become skilled at reading the room, anticipating problems, and adapting to whatever the moment...
by Lynn 18 | Jul 7, 2026 | Mental Health Professional, Parental Alienation
I am an estrangement clinician primarily working with parents who are estranged from their adult sons and/or daughters. Estrangement is a unique phenomenon requiring a specialized approach. My lived experience as an estranged parent is a far greater...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Jul 6, 2026 | CPTSD and Parenting, Mental Health Professional, Parenting With Trauma
Plenty of children never needed fixing, they needed adults who could tell guidance from control and knew when to protect a developing self rather than reshape it to satisfy adult fear, image, religion, family loyalty, gender rules, envy, convenience, or unexamined...
