by Lee Frost | Mar 17, 2022 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Pain
As I sit here with several benign tumors that are causing constant pain, I realize how chronic medical problems have followed me throughout life. I was always the sickly, hand-shy kid. Pain and odd ailments punctuate every major inflection point, like a divorce...
by Cyndi Bennett | Mar 16, 2022 | Attachment Trauma, Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Post Traumatic Growth
With the advent of working from home during COVID, we have all seen and chuckled at the videos going around of people either not being on mute and wishing they were, or people being on mute and wondering why people were not listening to them. Now, there is the double...
by Maria Anna van Driel | Mar 9, 2022 | Anxiety, CPTSD, First Responders and CPTSD, Guest Contributor
Scenario: You find yourself in a private or business situation where mental and/or physical abuse is the order of the day for a very, very long time. It took you a while but slowly awareness is rising with you that this situation is far from being normal and healthy....
by Mari Stewart | Mar 3, 2022 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Guest Contributor, What is CPTSD
People often find it difficult to explain, or to understand Complex PTSD. I often find myself falling into metaphor or analogy to explain the experience. The reason for using an abstraction is because in Complex PTSD the particulars from one person to another vary –...
by Cyndi Bennett | Mar 1, 2022 | Childhood Sexual Abuse, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD
Sometimes, managing the symptoms of CPTSD and developmental trauma seems like a full-time job, but I already have a full-time career. How can I make it through the workday without totally falling apart? How can I continue to perform at work when I keep getting...
by Shane Bouel | Feb 23, 2022 | Anxiety, CPTSD, CPTSD and Adoption, CPTSD and PTSD, Depression, Emotional Wellness, PTSD
Pro-life A foetus has rights! Adoption A child in a contract they never signed! What is being said here is that you as life, have rights, but only under the conditions that are dictated. Adoptees can categorically state that living the life of adoption is extremely...
