by Xavier Nuez | Jun 23, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing
Why I went looking for broken places, and what they gave back For most of my twenties and thirties, I lived a contradiction I tried to hide from everyone. On the outside, I seemed to have my life together–running a photography studio, exhibiting my work, and...
by Ellen Tift | Jun 17, 2026 | ACEs, Attachment Trauma, Building Resilience in Healing, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Depression, Grieving, Hope, Loneliness, Narcissistic Abuse, Suicide Prevention
Whether the narcissist is one person or a group, the pain of mistreatment can make you want to go to sleep and never wake up. Let’s validate this dilemma, consider why it happens, and how to heal. The Weight You Carry You wake up each morning with a heaviness...
by Xavier Nuez | Jun 10, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing
How I accidentally built a healing practice without knowing what I was healing from In 1987, I walked into a job interview in Montreal and couldn’t say my own name. I was twenty-two. Two days earlier, I’d been at a party with friends, cracking jokes,...
by Angela Solic | Jun 4, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, Healing Self-Shame, Post Traumatic Growth
Trigger Warning: This post contains references to traumatic childhood experiences, including recalled memories of abuse and descriptions of the author’s trauma responses. Please take care while reading. I’m surprised I wasn’t born wearing a tiny pair of...
by Elizabeth Woods | Jun 1, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, CPTSD, Healing from Toxic Shame, Healing Self-Shame, Hope
It’s official, my MFA is in the bag. I did it! I have achieved a Master’s degree in Writing. It’s a dream come true for me. Something I could only dream about over the years. My dream started when I was about four or five years old. I was living a nightmare childhood....
by Roseanne Reilly | May 28, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, Feeling Good Enough
There is a quiet longing many recovering from CPTSD carry: the desire to feel free again. Not to be overwhelmed by emotion, not to shut it down, but to feel without fear of what might happen inside. And yet, for so many, this feels just out of reach. It is not because...
