by Steve Rothwell | Apr 16, 2026 | Complex PTSD Healing, Core Beliefs, CPTSD
Whether you are struggling to contain painful rumination, finding it difficult to cope in the present, or feeling apprehensive about the future, there is a good chance that stuck points are influencing your experience. Stuck points are rigid, distressing thoughts and...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Apr 15, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
In my first mental health job in the early 1990s, I learned a rule that still holds under pressure. Never tell an upset client to “calm down.” It backfires. The person does not feel heard, seen, or validated. They feel managed. The phrase sounds helpful to the one...
by Elizabeth Woods | Apr 14, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Core Beliefs, CPTSD
Hey, how are you doing today? Can you remember your first thoughts this morning? Was it a positive thought about your day ahead? Our world is full of negativity right now. It can be hard to tune everything out that’s going on in the news and in our cities. Did you...
by Sophia Rehmus | Apr 9, 2026 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Emotional Flashbacks, Triggers
In a scene from one of my favorite films, The Iron Giant, a boy named Hogarth plays in a junk yard with his new friend, a giant metal man fallen from space. In the midst of their game, Hogarth pulls out a toy gun and aims it at the giant. Instantly, and without his...
by Lorraine Kane | Apr 8, 2026 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD
For a long time, I believed my healing would announce itself with a clear endpoint—a day when the pain would finally stop, when the hypervigilance would dissolve, when I would wake up and simply feel whole. I waited for that day for years. Decades, even. It never...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Apr 7, 2026 | Brain Chemistry, Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, The Brain and CPTSD
People don’t become controlling because they enjoy it. They become controlling because trauma taught them that unpredictability is dangerous. When life blindsides you enough times, your nervous system starts operating like a private security detail—monitoring,...
