by Rebekah Brown | Oct 13, 2022 | Childhood Sexual Abuse, Depression, Emotional Wellness, Grief, Guest Contributor
I looked out over the south rim of the Grand Canyon and thought about the epochs of time it took to shape such a place. I always heard everyone say pictures don’t do it justice. They were right. No matter how panoramic I tried to make my camera, I simply could...
by Heidi Fischer | Oct 5, 2022 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Healing from Toxic Shame
This article was originally published on The Mighty. There is a therapy trick that I’m willing to bet you’ve heard of. It’s a popular technique used to quiet down negative self-talk, a type of reframing called “naming.” Basically, you give your inner critic a name...
by Eric Zuniga | Sep 23, 2022 | CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
If someone considers you wounded, it just means they can’t see your authentic self. Of course, it might be buried under emotional rubble, but everyone has an innate intelligence. Collecting rubble happens, but it doesn’t need to define anyone. Like the weather, storms...
by Sunny Lynn, OMC | Sep 21, 2022 | Anxiety, Building Resilience in Healing, Emotional Wellness, Self Care
Finding Gold in the Cracks (as published in the HeartBalm Healing Podcast at https://heartbalm.substack.com) Living in the contrast of life can feel daunting, overwhelming, and uncomfortable yet everything in this life is about contrast. Slowing down the images and...
by Shirley Davis | Sep 19, 2022 | CPTSD, Emotional Wellness
All people always need to change their self-awareness to compensate for what they encounter in their lives regularly. One way to accomplish this is to raise your emotional intelligence. This article will again discuss emotional intelligence and outline how you can...
by Maria Anna van Driel | Sep 15, 2022 | CPTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Narcissistic Personality Disorder
“You are a bad person if you respond poorly to me” When we search for a clinical explanation about the topic of narcissism we find very strong identifiers that we can zero in on. Identifiers like pathological self-absorption, an inflated ego, and a sense...