by Jesse Donahue | Apr 22, 2024 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
Stepping into the Shoes of Who You Are is a nice metaphor for coming to wear the shoes of who you are—perhaps for coming back to wearing… once again. Here I am, standing in the depression of a gut-ugly emotion-tinged experience and habitually wearing a cleverly...
by Jennifer Lock Oman | Apr 17, 2024 | CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional
In adapting to the circumstances of growing up with relational trauma, most of us had to give up our innate sense of personal power or sovereignty Generally, this meant having to forfeit our agency, vibrancy, energy, or creativity. Most of all, it meant no one was...
by Erena DiGonis | Apr 11, 2024 | CPTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional
In the therapy room, there’s a four-letter word that creates unease in my nervous system every time I hear it: “lazy.” Working with trauma survivors, I witness the fallout of abusive and neglectful households, and the last thing I want to hear is my...
by Paul Michael Marinello | Apr 8, 2024 | CPTSD and PTSD, Depression, Emotional Wellness, Loneliness, Mental Health Professional
“I’m lonely. And I’m lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.”― Augusten Burroughs,...
by Rebekah Brown | Apr 4, 2024 | Anxiety, CPTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Sleep
The good news is that trauma survivors can conquer insomnia. The bad news: it takes time. I’ve had insomnia for nearly fifty years. Habits that have gone on that long aren’t going to change overnight. But they are changing and that is what matters. The automatic...
by Elizabeth Woods | Mar 25, 2024 | ACEs, CPTSD, Emotional Wellness
My name is Elizabeth and I am a survivor of trauma and sexual abuse. My younger, most impressionable years were far from anything resembling a childhood, and yet I’m still here to talk about my experiences of a fragmented life. I survived in an environment where...
