The Research Gap: Filicide Survivors
***TRIGGER WARNING – This article discusses ACE’s, child abuse, and murder, and may be traumatic for some readers*** Filicide (n): is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child. In 1969, Dr. Phillip Resnick published research on filicide and...
The Knock on the Door that Changed My World: Domestic Violence can Happen to Anyone
It was late, and my kids had gone to bed a few hours before. I was tired and getting ready to call it a night. A sudden knock on the door made me look up from my keyboard. It was a gentle knock, almost as if it had not even happened. “Did you hear a knock?” I asked my...
Domestic Abuse: What Stops Victims from Leaving?
“What stops victims from leaving?” It used to be called “domestic violence,” when, in fact, abuse isn’t always violent. Before any types of violent abuse occur, there have been months, if not years, of more subtle, but as destructive,...
The Weaponization of Ambiguity: A Call to Rename NPD to Support Victims of Sociopathic Violence in a World of Rising Narcissism (Part 5)
Part 5 of 5. Read the previous post here: https://cptsdfoundation.org/2024/10/09/the-weaponization-of-ambiguity-a-call-to-rename-npd-to-support-victims-of-sociopathic-violence-in-a-world-of-rising-narcissism-part-4/ Mushrooms are notorious for only being...