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...
by Jodi Simpson | Sep 17, 2026 | CPTSD Poetry
She watched him long before she understoodthat some people learn to smilethe way broken branches still hold birds–not because they aren’t cracked,but because they continueto have purpose despite their brokenness. He was her brother,though the family never...
by Rachel Grant | Sep 16, 2026 | Healing from Toxic Shame, Healing Self-Shame, Mental Health Professional
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by Shigeko Ito | Sep 15, 2026 | CPTSD
Eight months after my memoir was published, I am still living in the strange quiet that follows. The book took more than a decade to write, and while I initially felt relief and a sense of completion, the post-publication period has brought its own grief and...
by Adan Rhoades | Sep 14, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, Dissociation and CPTSD, Treatment for CPTSD
Half a century is a long time to live in a state of perpetual survival. When a child’s world is confined to a short list of places filled with memories of, and anticipation of, savagery, the paradigm of a safe place is unrecognizable. In my case, I normalized the...
