by Shirley Davis | May 2, 2022 | CPTSD, Emotional Wellness
Everyone experiences stress at one point or another in their lives. Perhaps you face a new boss at work or a medical problem of your own, or a family member. Countless incidents cause stress. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) deals primarily with trauma...
by Rebekah Brown | Mar 10, 2022 | Abandonment and CPTSD, Anxiety, Attachment Trauma, Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Emotional Wellness
I stood in the hallway and stared at the black and white tiled floors. On the other side of the emergency room doors, my mother’s screeches were louder than the PA system. “Let me go! I don’t want to be here. It’s their fault!” Screaming at the top of her...
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...