by Elizabeth Woods | Jul 21, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Post Traumatic Growth
Did you know that your breath is the fastest way to calm down when you are feeling dysregulated? Nobody is immune from stress, regardless of age and we all have one thing in common — we react. How we react to stress is different for everyone, but there is a...
by Jenney Clark | Jul 17, 2026 | Anxiety, Borderline Personality Disorder, Boundaries, Building Resilience in Healing, Gaslighting, Isolation, Loneliness, Toxic Relationships, Triggers
***TRIGGER WARNING*** This article discusses trauma, including bullying, abuse, and crowd baiting references that may not be appropriate for all. My name is Jenney Clark and I am a voice for the voiceless. “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems...
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...
