by Martha Fernandez | Oct 28, 2026 | CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
A lighter workload has never once treated a depressive episode. It makes one more survivable while it continues, which is genuinely worth having and is not the same thing, and confusing the two costs people years of their lives. This comes up constantly with survivors...
by Martha Fernandez | Oct 15, 2026 | Attachment Trauma, CPTSD, Healing from Toxic Shame, Mental Health Professional
She had not asked anyone for anything in eleven years. She did not arrive with that figure. I asked the question, and she worked it out in the room, moving backward through two moves, a job change, and one hospital stay, until she found a date. Then she said, with no...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Sep 28, 2026 | CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
A child in a chronically unsafe home learns quickly that identity can wait. Personal safety, knowing how to read the room, keeping the peace, figuring out which parent is drunk, which parent is angry, which sibling is about to be targeted, which truth cannot be said,...
by Rachel Grant | Sep 23, 2026 | CPTSD, Healing from Toxic Shame, Healing Self-Shame, Mental Health Professional, Shame
Click here to watch Part II of the video series on 5 Lies Shame Wants You to Believe. (video opens in separate tab) Photo Credit: Unsplash Guest Post Disclaimer: This guest post is for educational and informational purposes only. Nothing shared here,...
by Wendy Hoke | Sep 22, 2026 | Boundaries, Building Resilience in Healing, Childhood Sexual Abuse, CPTSD, Family Estrangement, Going No Contact
My 16 year old son went no-contact with his father, my ex, about 18 months ago. Since that time, he occasionally asks me a loaded question, such as “do you think I’m being cruel?” Knowing what his father did and is capable of doing, I have supported his decision....
by Shigeko Ito | Sep 15, 2026 | CPTSD
Eight months after my memoir was published, I am still living in the strange quiet that follows. The book took more than a decade to write, and while I initially felt relief and a sense of completion, the post-publication period has brought its own grief and...
