by Shirley Davis | Jan 10, 2022 | ACEs, Childhood Sexual Abuse, Complex PTSD Healing
Codependency causes people to feed off each other’s emotions and to lose their ability to care for themselves. Codependency is a cruel dance where one person needs the other who needs to be needed. Thus, you end up with one adult being the giver and the other the...
by Lily Tecklher | Aug 18, 2021 | Childhood Sexual Abuse, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Dissociation and CPTSD, Emotional Flashbacks, Guest Contributor, Symptoms of CPTSD
Trauma Treatment, Cicadas and the Emerging Buzz of Hope by Lily Tecklher *TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains an account of child assault. Please practice self-care when reading and step away if you become triggered. In 1987,...
by Jeff Spiteri | May 26, 2021 | ACEs, Childhood Sexual Abuse, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Family Estrangement, Guest Contributor, Healthy Relationships, Men's Mental Health
We always have choices, sometimes the choice to make a change or take on a quest or journey can be the scariest decision of all. But it is when we leave behind what is familiar that we make space to see with a perspective where we were. While the journey itself can...
by Shirley Davis | Apr 26, 2021 | Childhood Sexual Abuse
This series in April has focused on childhood sexual abuse, what it is, and how it affects its victims long-term. Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is an insidious blight on our world and destroys the future of our country, our children. This article will focus on how to...
by Shirley Davis | Apr 19, 2021 | Childhood Sexual Abuse, CPTSD
This April we have been focused on childhood sexual abuse (CSA), a crime that can cause long-term harm even as the child grows into adulthood. 1in 4 women and 1 in 6 men alive in the United States today were molested sexually before the age of 18. This means there are...
by Shirley Davis | Apr 12, 2021 | Childhood Sexual Abuse, COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has been brutal on us all. Rising depression and anxiety plague our world more than any time in recent history, and it is not only adults who are affected. Children have been home from school living with adults who are out of work, out of money,...
