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...
by Susan Morris | Nov 3, 2021 | ACEs, Building Resilience in Healing
If We Can Face Our Traumas: We Lessen the Risk for Mental Health Issues, Chronic Illness, and More We all enter the world a blank slate, free of thoughts and ideas. Who we eventually become is determined by the upbringing and experiences that fill that slate. We don’t...
by Susan Morris | Oct 26, 2021 | ACEs, Building Resilience in Healing, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Self Care
My mission of self-discovery began when I started documenting my journey through breast cancer. But it did not end there. The more I wrote, the more I learned. I initially wanted to know why my breast cancer diagnosis set off such a wave of sorrow inside me. Why was...
by Mari Stewart | Sep 14, 2021 | ACEs, Anxiety, Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Self-Harm, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Feeling Good Enough
There is an event in the writing world called #PitMad. It is a Twitter event with a specialized hashtag, #PitMad in this case, where writers can pitch their novels to agents. It’s a bit like Carnivale crossed with Bedlam. These events have really taken off in the past...
by Shirley Davis | Jul 22, 2021 | ACEs, CPTSD
The answer will leave you speechless. Adults who experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), aka traumatic experiences as children, still pay for what happened to them years, even decades later. But what are adverse childhood experiences? And how do they affect...
by Mari Stewart | Jun 11, 2021 | ACEs, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Guest Contributor
There is no word to describe the feeling. I tried time after time to define this knot of emotions. It is a task that is beyond my ability. I cannot find a singular word that describes the feeling. I keep looking but, for the moment I carry this undefined weight with...
