by Chris Prange-Morgan | May 28, 2021 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD and Parenting, CPTSD Research, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) describes epigenetics as the study of how your behaviours and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work.[1] While we may have inherited certain DNA from our biological parents, the choices we make in our...
by Gemma Jones | May 11, 2021 | Building Resilience in Healing, Emotional Wellness, Feeling Good Enough, Healing Self-Shame, Self-Acceptance
Strange is my life, when I glaze off into the distance looking at my willow trees in my childhood garden, in my mind, I know why I do it now so many years later. This wonderful brain gave me a way to see something beautiful when something fracturing was done to my...
by Randi | Apr 29, 2021 | Abandonment and CPTSD, Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, CPTSD and Parenting, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Guest Contributor, Self-Acceptance
I was asked to write a post on my blog about life through my eyes. Although I welcome suggestions, this topic is probably the one that is hardest for me to write. I have written many posts about my struggles, but to describe what life feels like for me is incredibly...
by Roseanne Reilly | Apr 2, 2021 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, Emotional Wellness, Post Traumatic Growth
Become a Student of Healing and Build Reliable Resources to Navigate life with Trauma In case you missed Part I of this II-part series, click here. Over time you developed survival resources to help you cope and protect yourself when you were over-exposed to trauma...
by Rebekah Brown | Mar 19, 2021 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Emotional Flashbacks, Polyvagal Theory and CPTSD, Symptoms of CPTSD, The Brain and CPTSD
Blackbird Fight or flight: the instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation, which readies one either to resist forcibly or to run away. I covered my ears at the deafening sound of the shotgun blast. My father discharged another volley into the...
by Shirley Davis | Feb 22, 2021 | Building Resilience in Healing
Dealing with loss and change cannot be avoided, they are inevitable parts of life. Everyone experiences setbacks with some being minor and others being highly traumatic and life-altering. Resilience is what helps people through challenges through psychological...
