by Cyndi Bennett | Jul 20, 2023 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Workplace Trauma
As a trauma survivor, have you ever asked yourself why it seems so difficult to advance in your career when your peers are moving up without a problem? Have you ever felt like your boss doesn’t like or appreciate you? Have you ever felt like you don’t belong in the...
by Milena "Mila" Stankovic | Jul 19, 2023 | CPTSD, Dr. Jamie Huysman, Guest Contributor, TAR Tales
Even though we like to feel that our past is behind us and our childhood relationships are just memories, our character and worldview today can be greatly shaped by how we were brought up. Our childhood experiences hold even more power over our present selves when we...
by Sunny Lynn, OMC | Jul 18, 2023 | Attachment Trauma, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Guest Contributor
A Daughter’s Pain – a Mother’s Happiness: Growing up with a Jealous, Narcissistic Mother (as published in The Friday Edition of HeartBalm Healing at https://heartbalm.substack.com) As an adult, you may look back at your childhood self and realize how...
by Shirley Davis | Jul 17, 2023 | CPTSD, Mindfulness, Trauma-Informed
Practicing mindfulness and meditation is indeed healthy for our minds, but how? What part does the brain have to do with mindfulness and meditation? In this piece, we shall discover together the neuroscience of mindfulness and meditation and ways you can use them to...
by Cyndi Bennett | Jul 13, 2023 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Workplace Trauma
One of the major components of career development is self-awareness. Self-awareness is “conscious knowledge of one’s own character, feelings, motives, and desires.” It is also a conscious knowledge of your giftedness, skills, and goals. Self-awareness helps us...
by Rachel Grant | Jul 12, 2023 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor
I’m not going to waste any time in this month’s post – let’s get right to the heart of the matter. “How easily a life can become a litany of guilt and regret, a song that keeps echoing with the same chorus, with the inability to forgive...
