by Wendy Hoke | Oct 13, 2026 | Family Estrangement, Narcissistic Abuse, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, PTSD
What motivates a narcissist? Standard thought: an insatiable need for external validation, a craving for social dominance, and a deep-seated fear of worthlessness and exposure. Beneath a confident exterior, a narc has a fragile ego in hypervigilant mode to protect...
by Elizabeth Woods | Oct 12, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Self Care, Self Regulation
Our world is beautiful, but most people dismiss their surroundings because they see them every day. Sometimes, it takes a stranger to give you a different perspective. The lens shifts, and then you see it. The statue you’ve been driving past every day becomes a...
by Angela Solic | Oct 8, 2026 | Mental Health Professional
Did you know that children do not have to be the direct target of abuse to experience significant traumatic effects of it? This is absolutely true. As a matter of fact, studies have shown that children who only witness abuse happening to one of their caregivers have...
by Rachel Grant | Oct 7, 2026 | Healing from Toxic Shame, Healing Self-Shame, Mental Health Professional, Shame
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by Jack Brody | Oct 6, 2026 | Generational Trauma, Healthy Relationships, Men's Mental Health, Parenting With Trauma
I used to think healing would look different. I imagined some major moment where everything suddenly clicked into place. Waking up one morning and realizing I was no longer carrying the weight of the past, overthinking every conversation, no longer replaying old...
by Elizabeth Woods | Oct 5, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Self Care, Self Regulation
Our world is fractured and suffering. The environment is crumbling as global warming does its best to destroy the planet. There is trauma and fear everywhere. Fear breathes unrest and chaos into our world. The news channels are bursting with horrific events of death...
by Elizabeth Woods | Oct 5, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, Life Management Skills
When your world turns upside down When you feel like you want to die When there’s nobody around When all you can do is cry Living with trauma is not easy and most people have no idea what survivors go through every single day. I write for those who have no...
by Rachel Grant | Sep 30, 2026 | Healing from Toxic Shame, Healing Self-Shame, Mental Health Professional, Shame
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by Elizabeth Woods | Sep 29, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, Feeling Good Enough, Post Traumatic Growth
Trauma — is an emotional or psychological response to very stressful, frightening, or distressing events. Trauma comes in different forms. Physical trauma refers to a person suffering a sudden injury caused by an accident, such as a car crash. Physical...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Sep 28, 2026 | CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
A child in a chronically unsafe home learns quickly that identity can wait. Personal safety, knowing how to read the room, keeping the peace, figuring out which parent is drunk, which parent is angry, which sibling is about to be targeted, which truth cannot be said,...
