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 Ruthann Alexander | Jun 3, 2026 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Life Management Skills, Self Regulation
It’s a gloomy winter evening, my seasonal depression is at its worst, and I’ve just finished a difficult day at work. What’s keeping me together? Ripping, cutting, arranging, and gluing pieces of textured paper down on a page in my art journal. My mind goes from...
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...
by Elizabeth Woods | May 25, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Healing from Toxic Shame
My name is Elizabeth, and I am a survivor of sexual abuse and trauma. I endured things, terrible things when I was growing up. I was just a young sprout, but my lack of years and stature failed to tell everyone what I had already lived through and seen with my young...
by Elizabeth Woods | May 18, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD
It’s important to recognize that you cannot go through life as easily on your own. My name is Elizabeth, and I’m a survivor of child abuse and horrific trauma. Healing from trauma is not a quick fix, and recognizing that it will take time is part of the struggle. “I...
