How to Desensitize a Trauma Memory
Grief and guilt change a survivor on a cellular level. There is no shame in accepting this change. Recovery and healing are not a straight line and nor is the grief process. Sometimes a memory is triggered that has not been thought of since it happened, decades...
The Beganning
Trigger Warning: Please be kind to yourself as you read.In the Beganning… There was darkness and I was blind, oblivious to the truth, and indeed conditioned to be how I was. Until that day when I came to see, no, to feel, to know, there was a new way forward and not...Self-harm and Complex Trauma
***Trigger Warning*** This article includes an honest discussion about self-harming behavior, a topic that is highly triggering to some. Caution is advised. Self-harm is something people do when they are so overwhelmed by emotions that they do not know what to do....How Can I Work With CPTSD?
If you have Complex PTSD and are looking at the picture above with horror and anxiety, you are in the right place. Being in the type of environment shown above strikes fear in the hearts of most trauma survivors. I know I couldn’t work in that type of workspace. The...