by Chris Prange-Morgan | Oct 9, 2020 | ACEs, Attachment Trauma, CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Hypervigilance, Mindfulness, Outer Critic, Trauma-Informed
Sometimes raising a child with developmental trauma feels like drowning. During the pandemic, the usual lifelines of educational and community support are decreased or absent, and many parents are left feeling suffocated and alone. Our son spent two years languishing...
by J Bradley O | Oct 7, 2020 | CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories
As the sun rises here on the porch of the homeless shelter, the house’s cat ambles up beside me. I scratch and caress her head. Her silky black fur seems too soft for a cat. She purrs and nuzzles my hand. She also wants to be fed. If we traded places, would...
by Alice Kenny | Oct 2, 2020 | ACEs, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Guest Contributor
As a child, I lived in dread that something would set my mother off and she’d fly into a violent rage, unleashing a torrent of physical abuse. There never was any reason for the abuse. There didn’t have to be. Something would invariably infuriate my mother. I don’t...
by J Bradley O | Sep 25, 2020 | CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories
It’s rather intriguing, this conglomerate of selves I collectively call me. That is of course depending upon which self is observing. Others of us find it confusing, irritating, and downright depressing. A therapist might say I struggle with dysregulation. In fact, I...
by Alice Kenny | Sep 23, 2020 | ACEs, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Guest Contributor
(The article below is an excerpt from my book, Crazy Was All I Ever Knew: The Impact of Maternal Mental Illness on Kids. I have used a pseudonym to protect the privacy of family members.) Many adult children of mentally ill parents are functioning but struggling. The...
by Randi | Sep 18, 2020 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Guest Contributor, Healthy Relationships
Have you heard the saying that if you want to find out what your wife will be like in 20 years, look at her mother? Whereas that might result in a chuckle for some people, that thought was terrifying for me. As an adult survivor of child abuse at the hands of my...
