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,...
by Heather Jurvelin | Sep 25, 2026 | Anger, Boundaries, Compassion Fatigue, Family Estrangement, Grieving, Relationships
After my sister texted me the real estate listing for my mom’s house, I texted back, “Well, at least now I know what Mom’s house looks like.” Mom had lived there for almost two years, but I’d never visited. Exhausted after 40 years of navigating a largely one-sided...
by Ellen Tift | Sep 24, 2026 | Anxiety, Complex PTSD Healing, Dysregulation, Hypervigilance, Life Management Skills, Self Care, Self Regulation
Are you ever in a public place, trying to hide your internal melt-down? Lock yourself in a bathroom stall and try these proven methods to regulate your panicked nervous system. When Your Nervous System Needs a Moment Bellamy wiped down another table, trying to ignore...
by Rachel Grant | Sep 23, 2026 | CPTSD, Healing from Toxic Shame, Healing Self-Shame, Mental Health Professional, Shame
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by Wendy Hoke | Sep 22, 2026 | Boundaries, Building Resilience in Healing, Childhood Sexual Abuse, CPTSD, Family Estrangement, Going No Contact
My 16 year old son went no-contact with his father, my ex, about 18 months ago. Since that time, he occasionally asks me a loaded question, such as “do you think I’m being cruel?” Knowing what his father did and is capable of doing, I have supported his decision....
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Sep 21, 2026 | Anger, Emotional Wellness, Mental Health Professional
During my years as a trauma therapist, I heard three words used as if they were interchangeable: frustrated, irritable, and angry. Patients used them that way, families used them that way, and sometimes professionals drifted into the same habit. This was especially...
