by Shane Bouel | Feb 23, 2022 | Anxiety, CPTSD, CPTSD and Adoption, CPTSD and PTSD, Depression, Emotional Wellness, PTSD
Pro-life A foetus has rights! Adoption A child in a contract they never signed! What is being said here is that you as life, have rights, but only under the conditions that are dictated. Adoptees can categorically state that living the life of adoption is extremely...
by Shirley Davis | Feb 14, 2022 | Attachment Trauma, Emotional Wellness, Relationships
Rejection trauma results from growing up in homes where we were rejected and often considered worthless and a waste of our parent’s time. Perhaps we were told we were worthless, or our parents maltreated us using us for their own pleasure. The result of having...
by Catherine | Feb 9, 2022 | Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
Equality I am writing this piece to bring awareness to the equal severity that the impact of childhood emotional abuse has on an individual’s adulthood, to that of other types of abuse. Perhaps you have noticed, the same as I, that emotional abuse appears to be...
by Shirley Davis | Feb 7, 2022 | Emotional Wellness, Relationships, Self-Acceptance
Rejection is a normal part of human life as not every relationship is good for us and may end abruptly. We have all felt the sting of being fired from a job or parting from someone who didn’t wish to date us anymore. Rejection trauma is different. It begins in...
by Susan Morris | Jan 10, 2022 | Building Resilience in Healing, CPTSD, Emotional Wellness, Hope, Self Care, Self-Acceptance
As an adult child of an alcoholic, the quiet in my household was most likely always followed by chaos. The thing I craved the most as a child was peace. The uneasy feeling of impending doom followed me well into my adulthood. When there was happiness in my life, I...
by Shirley Davis | Dec 30, 2021 | CPTSD, Emotional Wellness, Holiday Stress, Holidays
Survivors of complex trauma often see the world as a horrendous place where there is only pain and sorrow. It is very difficult for people like us to step back and see the trees for the forest. During this season of the year, the thinking patterns of survivors can...
