by Rebekah Brown | Aug 16, 2023 | Abandonment and CPTSD, ACEs, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Guest Contributor, Trauma
Meaning—What does the loss & its impact say about me? I sat on the back porch of our custom-built little house in the backwoods of Virginia. I had everything I’d ever dreamed of except for one thing. A life. I thought I’d be free. Instead, I was drowning in...
by Cyndi Bennett | Jul 27, 2023 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Workplace Trauma
This week I spent some time doing a career audit from a trauma perspective. When I share my story of what got me started as a Trauma Recovery Career Coach, I usually start at the point where I had a zip file of repressed memories open up, which led me to go from being...
by Cyndi Bennett | Jul 20, 2023 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Workplace Trauma
As a trauma survivor, have you ever asked yourself why it seems so difficult to advance in your career when your peers are moving up without a problem? Have you ever felt like your boss doesn’t like or appreciate you? Have you ever felt like you don’t belong in the...
by Sunny Lynn, OMC | Jul 18, 2023 | Attachment Trauma, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Guest Contributor
A Daughter’s Pain – a Mother’s Happiness: Growing up with a Jealous, Narcissistic Mother (as published in The Friday Edition of HeartBalm Healing at https://heartbalm.substack.com) As an adult, you may look back at your childhood self and realize how...
by Cyndi Bennett | Jul 13, 2023 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Workplace Trauma
One of the major components of career development is self-awareness. Self-awareness is “conscious knowledge of one’s own character, feelings, motives, and desires.” It is also a conscious knowledge of your giftedness, skills, and goals. Self-awareness helps us...
by Rebekah Brown | Jun 28, 2023 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Family Estrangement, Narcissistic Personality Disorder
For part one of this series see What are The Roles in Dysfunctional Families Systems? A Short Childhood Story My brother glanced at me as we “read” the emotional temperature of the room. What was tonight going to be like? My mother already had one of those frowns on...
