by Tsuhai Nzinga | Jul 7, 2021 | Anxiety, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
What is safe? Most people think and believe that feeling safe is locking the doors and windows; knowing there’s a cop available at the end of a 911 call; or even something as simple as believing that red lights and stop signs will be obeyed by other drivers. In that...
by Eric Zuniga | Jun 16, 2021 | CPTSD and Self-Harm, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Post Traumatic Growth
In bringing closure to self-harming expression, the process may inadvertently place inordinate emphasis on the symptoms. It happens when valuing the disorder overrides the underlying cause and the restorative healing properties that are within everyone. Can a person...
by Chris Prange-Morgan | May 28, 2021 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD and Parenting, CPTSD Research, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) describes epigenetics as the study of how your behaviours and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work.[1] While we may have inherited certain DNA from our biological parents, the choices we make in our...
by Kinjal Kanani | May 27, 2021 | CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Emotional Wellness
My husband found me sobbing in a corner with a medication strip in my hand. It was a normal day until… There was some minor setback at the workplace, and my anxiety started controlling me. I created thousands of negative consequences and cried inconsolably. My...
by Roseanne Reilly | May 19, 2021 | CPTSD and Inner Child Work, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Emotional Wellness, Feeling Good Enough
My term ‘Soulful Empathy’ arises from ‘feeling and listening at a soul level’ It is like one traumatized nervous system, soma (body) starts speaking to another and you feel seen and heard and safe in a sincere and soulful way, without words. One soma resonates...
by Shirley Davis | May 17, 2021 | ACEs, CPTSD, Emotional Wellness
One might think of negative childhood experiences as intimately linked with complex trauma and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), and you would be correct. CPTSD is caused by a series or numerous traumas, usually in childhood, and can form in adulthood....
