by Heather Jurvelin | Jun 10, 2025 | Cognitive Behavior Therapy, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
Vulnerability and Trust Can Be the Hardest Work We’ll Ever Do My therapist recently had the audacity to applaud my progress, reminding me that I’m “the one doing all the work.” A part of me internally screamed about how much I hated it when she said that. For the...
by Polly Hansen | May 29, 2025 | ACEs, CPTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Healing from Toxic Shame
“It’s amazing you survived. How come you’re so…normal and happy?”That’s what people say when I tell my story: parental neglect, sexual abuse, homelessness, being trafficked. My answer? I never gave up on me. Why? Because I wanted me. I wanted to believe I was good,...
by Elizabeth Woods | May 28, 2025 | CPTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
Hey, how are you feeling today? Have you taken some time for yourself today? If you are a survivor of trauma and abuse, the answer is probably not. As survivors, the last person we think about is ourselves because we have spent years being suppressed into believing...
by Roseanne Reilly | May 27, 2025 | CPTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
Restoring Safety to the Nervous System For many of us living with stress-related trauma—whether acute, chronic, developmental, or complex—the hardest thing isn’t the memory. It’s the body’s ongoing reaction. Our nervous system holds onto the past...
by Rebekah Brown | May 20, 2025 | Betrayal, Caregiving, Complex PTSD Healing, Core Beliefs, CPTSD, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Emotional Wellness, Estrangement, Family Estrangement, Feeling Good Enough, Gaslighting, Generational Trauma, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional, Narcissistic Abuse, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Relationships, Trauma
It’s something every survivor of childhood trauma dreads: the death of their abuser. No one has any idea how they are going to react. Will you be awash in regret? How about grief? The losses incurred dealing with a narcissistic parent over a lifetime complicate...
by Roseanne Reilly | May 8, 2025 | CPTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Narcissistic Abuse, Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Reclaiming Safety after Narcissistic Abuse This post explores the unseen consequences of narcissistic abuse, the breakdown of psychological and physiological safety, and the slow, sacred journey of healing ‘functional freeze’ that invites us to reclaim our...
