CPTSD in the Workplace: Navigating Workplace Accommodations
Several people have contacted me for guidance on requesting workplace accommodations in the past couple of weeks. I wrote an article in December 2022 called “CPTSD in the Workplace: Creating a Safe Work Environment,” which goes into the details surrounding the ADA and...
Parenting Challenges for People with Complex Trauma: From Ferberizing My Baby to “Furberizing” My Puppy (A Personal Case Study)
On Valentine’s Day 2025, our 30th wedding anniversary, we celebrated by bringing home an 8-week-old labradoodle puppy. Thirty years together, and we’re still making questionable decisions… like starting all over with a dog infant. I dubbed her my “luvdoodle,” and we...
Enduring Darkness To Find The Light
I was once told that we had to explore the darkness in our healing before we found the light; I never quite understood what that meant or how hard it would be until I really dug deep into my own healing. What people don’t understand is how exhausting healing...
The Power of Co-Regulation
Fostering Emotional Resilience at Work Have you ever found yourself feeling overwhelmed or emotionally drained at work? If so, you’re not alone. Many of us have experienced moments of dysregulation in the workplace, where our emotions feel out of control, and we...
The Unique Challenges Trauma Survivors Face in the Workplace and How to Overcome Them
Introduction As a trauma survivor, navigating the workplace can present unique challenges that others may not fully understand. These challenges can impact our ability to thrive professionally, but it’s important to remember that we are not alone in this journey. In...
Recognizing Characteristics of Toxic Systems
For much of my life and career, I found comfort in the surface narrative—moving through the motions, staying busy, and avoiding deep scrutiny. But now, as the cracks in conventional structures continue to widen, operating on autopilot and chasing distractions no...
Walking the Tightrope of Womanhood
I’ve never been one to latch onto societal labels that spark division between men and women or even among women themselves. However, I cannot deny that throughout my life as a woman in this world, I have often found myself struggling to navigate the delicate...
The Emperor Has No Clothes
In July 2020, eleven months since we first went no-contact, my father wrote me his own obituary. Entitled “Who I Am on the Way,” my father described in the third person his early profound religious experiences (“[a]s if he’d written John 21:25” himself), how for him,...