Developmental Trauma Series: 3 – Why Insight Alone Does Not Heal Developmental Trauma
There I was standing in the hallway of the emergency room after my mother’s latest suicide attempt. This time, she had taken a knife up and down her arms, and for good measure, jumped into my father’s rural fishing pond behind the house. The neighbors found her. Now,...
The Rock and the Hard Place
I only found the “language” surrounding CPTSD very late in my life. Learning the reason for my decades of dysfunction and brokenness was my fiftieth birthday present from the universe–a genuine revelation. And long overdue. Like so many people who...
Developmental Trauma Pt 2: When Survival is a Way of Life
How the Nervous System Adapts to Ongoing Fear In the first article, we explored what developmental trauma is — not a single event, but an environment of ongoing fear that shapes a child’s nervous system over time. Understanding this raises an important and haunting...Follow, Like, & Share!
