by Elizabeth Woods | Oct 5, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, Life Management Skills
When your world turns upside down When you feel like you want to die When there’s nobody around When all you can do is cry Living with trauma is not easy and most people have no idea what survivors go through every single day. I write for those who have no...
by Elizabeth Woods | Sep 29, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, Feeling Good Enough, Post Traumatic Growth
Trauma — is an emotional or psychological response to very stressful, frightening, or distressing events. Trauma comes in different forms. Physical trauma refers to a person suffering a sudden injury caused by an accident, such as a car crash. Physical...
by Ellen Tift | Sep 24, 2026 | Anxiety, Complex PTSD Healing, Dysregulation, Hypervigilance, Life Management Skills, Self Care, Self Regulation
Are you ever in a public place, trying to hide your internal melt-down? Lock yourself in a bathroom stall and try these proven methods to regulate your panicked nervous system. When Your Nervous System Needs a Moment Bellamy wiped down another table, trying to ignore...
by Adan Rhoades | Sep 14, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, Dissociation and CPTSD, Treatment for CPTSD
Half a century is a long time to live in a state of perpetual survival. When a child’s world is confined to a short list of places filled with memories of, and anticipation of, savagery, the paradigm of a safe place is unrecognizable. In my case, I normalized the...
by Dr. Chris Cortman | Sep 9, 2026 | Complex PTSD Healing, Mental Health Professional
Many years ago, I took a course to become certified in clinical hypnosis — one more tool to keep in my kit as a licensed clinical psychologist. During that training, the instructor shared his belief that patients should never have to return to the scene of their...
by Denise Marie Ryan | Sep 8, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, Life Management Skills, Mental Health Professional, Therapy
I’m a domestic violence victim and I’ve been healing from symptoms of C-PTSD since September 2024 and for the first time ever, I saw what C-PTSD looks like in someone else. Just the other night, I arrived at the edge of the driveway to pick up my...
