by Sylvie Rouhani | May 20, 2022 | Abandonment and CPTSD, ACEs, Addiction, Attachment Trauma, Codependency, Emotional Flashbacks, Guest Contributor, Healing Codependency, Relationships, Self-Acceptance
When a new relationship starts (actually, it doesn’t even need to start), we are overwhelmed with emotional flashbacks from younger “Inner Parts” desperate to be loved, protected, and supported. and other parts of us will do anything to appease these...
by Sylvie Rouhani | May 17, 2022 | ACEs, Attachment Trauma, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Guest Contributor, Trauma-Informed
*** Trigger Warning*** please take care of yourself while reading this post: graphic details of Child Sexual Abuse ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ When we were children, adults often told us to...
by Rebekah Brown | Apr 20, 2022 | Abandonment and CPTSD, ACEs, Attachment Trauma, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Depression, Guest Contributor, Trauma
My mother died this morning. I knew the time was near but didn’t quite believe it would actually happen. She had lived for so long and did so much damage—I had grown accustomed to her shadow. I thought she would live forever. Institutionalized for over twenty-five...
by Robyn Brickel | Jan 31, 2022 | ACEs, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor
CDC research shows more than 60 percent of American adults have as children experienced at least one ACE (adverse childhood experience), and almost a quarter of adults have experienced 3 or more ACEs — and this is likely an underestimate. [Source: CDC] Because...
by Shirley Davis | Jan 10, 2022 | ACEs, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Complex PTSD Healing
Codependency causes people to feed off each other’s emotions and to lose their ability to care for themselves. Codependency is a cruel dance where one person needs the other who needs to be needed. Thus, you end up with one adult being the giver and the other the...
by Susan Morris | Nov 24, 2021 | Abandonment and CPTSD, ACEs, Anxiety, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Holiday Stress, Hope, Self Care, Surviving the Holidays
If you’ve lived through a traumatic childhood or domestic violence situation, you may not know what it feels like to feel jolly. Some of us feel a sense of dread the closer it gets to the holidays as the holidays approach. The trauma triggers are different for...
