by Wendy Hoke | Jul 15, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Healing from Toxic Shame, Mental Health Advocacy
Frequently, a sexual abuse victim comes forward after many years of silence–sometimes much later in life. Doing so means facing skepticism. Why did you wait? How can you be credible now? Aren’t those false memories? That victim frequently faces dismissal...
by Rachel Grant | Jul 14, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing
So many survivors learned that rest was laziness or weakness. But when your nervous system has spent years surviving, rest is repair. What’s your relationship with rest right now? Click to watch: Opens in same window Photo Credit: Unsplash Guest Post...
by Wendy Hoke | Jul 13, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, CPTSD, Creativity, Emotional Wellness, Holidays
This project began with a piece of wood. In 2 days, I will send my two teen sons off to summer camp for a week. I will have the entire place to myself for 6 nights. I have decided to use the time to revamp my Christmas ornaments, which are an amalgam of inherited...
by Roseanne Reilly | Jul 13, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing
There is a particular kind of quiet that follows trauma. Not the peaceful kind or the kind you choose. But the kind that settles in when something inside you has gone still… or far away. And in that quiet, a thought begins to form—sometimes softly or sometimes with a...
by Craig Fredrickson | Jul 10, 2026 | Boundaries, Building Resilience in Healing
Summer can bring great weather, vacations, and gatherings. Though for many living with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) it can also induce, or bring with it, emotional exhaustion, loneliness, overstimulation, and/or painful memories. Summer can also...
by Lawrence Mieczkowski, MD | Jul 8, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Mental Health Professional, Post Traumatic Growth, Therapy
For most of my life, I described my childhood as merely difficult. It was a sanitizing word, one that painted over abuse, neglect, and chaos with a veneer of normalcy. To the outside world, I seemed to be living the American dream. I was a successful...
