Protecting Your Peace & Healing In A Traumatized World
We are experiencing global trauma. We remember 2020 when a microscopic virus yielded macroscopic consequences, and we added exponential numbers of people to trauma rosters. Many CPTSD patients found themselves without feeling safe, and setbacks in healing. Extensive...
Coming Off of Mute
With the advent of working from home during COVID, we have all seen and chuckled at the videos going around of people either not being on mute and wishing they were, or people being on mute and wondering why people were not listening to them. Now, there is the double...Make A Decision
I stood in the hallway and stared at the black and white tiled floors. On the other side of the emergency room doors, my mother’s screeches were louder than the PA system. “Let me go! I don’t want to be here. It’s their fault!” Screaming at the top of her...An Analogy to Explain CPTSD
People often find it difficult to explain, or to understand Complex PTSD. I often find myself falling into metaphor or analogy to explain the experience. The reason for using an abstraction is because in Complex PTSD the particulars from one person to another vary –...