by Shirley Davis | Feb 21, 2022 | Attachment Trauma, Complex PTSD Healing, Post Traumatic Growth
Nature has endowed humanity with mechanisms to manage stress, fear, and severe trauma. We can survive childhood rejection by our parents, our peers, and ourselves. There are two mannerisms that we inherited through evolution meant to keep us safe, but that might alter...
by Shirley Davis | Feb 14, 2022 | Attachment Trauma, Emotional Wellness, Relationships
Rejection trauma results from growing up in homes where we were rejected and often considered worthless and a waste of our parent’s time. Perhaps we were told we were worthless, or our parents maltreated us using us for their own pleasure. The result of having...
by Shirley Davis | Jan 24, 2022 | Attachment Trauma, Codependency, Complex PTSD Healing
In this series of articles, we have examined codependency and various types of trauma. We’ve learned that living in a home where there is familial violence and neglect can spark in a child the need to be needed and thus set them up for becoming codependent in...
by Shirley Davis | Jan 6, 2022 | Attachment Trauma, Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Many of us have heard of codependency and narcissism. Codependency is when two people are locked in a life where they feed off on another, causing mental anguish. Narcissism is when one of the pair is self-centered, arrogant, and lacks empathy for their partner. In...
by Benjamin Holthaus | Dec 22, 2021 | Attachment Trauma, CPTSD Research, CPTSD Survivor Stories
Almost a year ago, I was invited to guest write in this forum, after releasing my book. For almost a year I have had this page bookmarked. I’ve seen it every day, but the intense fear of ridicule, judgment, and frankly feeling of irrelevance has stopped me from...
by Sheri Heller | Nov 16, 2021 | Abandonment and CPTSD, Attachment Trauma, Complex PTSD Healing, Guest Contributor, Healing Codependency, Healthy Relationships
There’s no doubt that the quest for love is universal. The giving and receiving of love are as fundamental to our well-being as the air we breathe. In fact, according to the maternal deprivation hypothesis infants regardless of whether they are puppies, monkeys or...
