by Elizabeth Woods | Oct 12, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Self Care, Self Regulation
Our world is beautiful, but most people dismiss their surroundings because they see them every day. Sometimes, it takes a stranger to give you a different perspective. The lens shifts, and then you see it. The statue you’ve been driving past every day becomes a...
by Elizabeth Woods | Oct 5, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Self Care, Self Regulation
Our world is fractured and suffering. The environment is crumbling as global warming does its best to destroy the planet. There is trauma and fear everywhere. Fear breathes unrest and chaos into our world. The news channels are bursting with horrific events of death...
by Elizabeth Woods | Oct 5, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, Life Management Skills
When your world turns upside down When you feel like you want to die When there’s nobody around When all you can do is cry Living with trauma is not easy and most people have no idea what survivors go through every single day. I write for those who have no...
by Elizabeth Woods | Sep 29, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, Feeling Good Enough, Post Traumatic Growth
Trauma — is an emotional or psychological response to very stressful, frightening, or distressing events. Trauma comes in different forms. Physical trauma refers to a person suffering a sudden injury caused by an accident, such as a car crash. Physical...
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 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...
