by Danielle Renee Murphy | Mar 26, 2021 | CPTSD, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, Dissociation and CPTSD, Symptoms of CPTSD, Trauma-Informed
Thank you for coming back for the next step in our journey. We are going to dare to go there. Together, we will explore the movie clip-like lifetime of memories in your mind and find the parts that helped build your wall. In case you missed it, you can read my...
by Rebekah Brown | Mar 24, 2021 | Attachment Trauma, CPTSD, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Emotional Flashbacks, Outer Critic, Polyvagal Theory and CPTSD, Symptoms of CPTSD, The Brain and CPTSD
The Thumb-Sucker Fight or flight: the instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation, which readies one either to resist forcibly or to run away. **Please be kind to yourself as you read** I thought I was safe. At four years old, I believed if I...
by Rebekah Brown | Mar 19, 2021 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Emotional Flashbacks, Polyvagal Theory and CPTSD, Symptoms of CPTSD, The Brain and CPTSD
Blackbird Fight or flight: the instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation, which readies one either to resist forcibly or to run away. I covered my ears at the deafening sound of the shotgun blast. My father discharged another volley into the...
by Cassie Sands | Mar 11, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Family Estrangement, Grief, Guest Contributor
I started writing as a way to process and talk about exceedingly difficult things I knew I needed to discuss in therapy but was unable to even begin to make sense of myself. For such a long time, I wasn’t able in any way to discuss much more than I had been...
by Shirley Davis | Mar 8, 2021 | CPTSD, Suicide Prevention
***TRIGGER WARNING*** This article will tackle active and passive suicide and may not be suitable for sensitive audiences. In our first article about self-harm, we tackled the subject with as much kindness as the topic would allow. Self-harm is a sensitive subject...
by Tsuhai Nzinga | Feb 26, 2021 | ACEs, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, Guest Contributor
It’s hard to fathom the levels of manipulation I’ve been subject to. As I walk this journey, I’ve learned that I must grieve the things I’ve lost. Tonight I realized that one of the things I lost was my mother. She didn’t die, but she wasn’t there growing up. I spent...
