by Robyn Brickel | Sep 23, 2021 | Emotional Flashbacks, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
The word trauma is so important to help those who suffer from emotional injury. Yet people so often think of trauma as only including physical or sexual injury. Many overlook its role in their overall health and quality of life. They don’t know they are struggling...
by Svava Brooks | Aug 26, 2021 | Emotional Wellness, Tension and Trauma-Releasing Exercises - TRE®
What day is it? Blursday? If your days are starting to mesh all into one lately, you are not alone. These are uncertain times and we are all feeling it, and as we are all hoping for an end in sight, we might need to adjust to the fact that while some things may go...
by Seleste | Jul 14, 2021 | Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Pyschotherapy, Treatment for CPTSD
We all feel a wide range of emotions; sad, happy, mad, excited, scared, lonely, frustrated, bored, anger, the list goes on. Children’s behavior (and misbehavior) is guided by their emotions and their brain states. Even for adults, these emotions can be overwhelming...
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...
