by Natalie Rose | Feb 11, 2025 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Expressive Writing, Feeling Good Enough, Guest Contributor, Journaling, Post Traumatic Growth, Self Care, Self-Acceptance
I’ve never been one to latch onto societal labels that spark division between men and women or even among women themselves. However, I cannot deny that throughout my life as a woman in this world, I have often found myself struggling to navigate the delicate...
by Natalie Rose | Dec 30, 2024 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Expressive Writing, Feeling Good Enough, Guest Contributor, Post Traumatic Growth
Writer’s Note: About a year ago, I landed in the hospital after four nights of not sleeping for a total of even one hour. I was then placed on a suicide hold. It was the final suicide hold I was put on before I made the decision to take my healing journey into...
by Natalie Rose | Jun 3, 2024 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Emotional Wellness, Expressive Writing, Guest Contributor, Hope, Self Care
My Grandmother is one of my best friends and biggest role models. Even when separated by distance, she’s always been by my side. She has shared my joy and shed tears with me and knows my secrets. She’s always given me a space to talk, and she listens with open...
by Adina Lynn LeCompte | May 27, 2024 | Boundaries, Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, Core Beliefs, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Expressive Writing, Guest Contributor, Healing Codependency, Healing from Toxic Shame, Healing Self-Shame, Healthy Relationships, Life Management Skills, Nature, Pyschotherapy, Recovery, Self Care, self trust, Self-Acceptance
I have a wonderful therapist. It’s not your usual “talk therapy,” though. We do talk, and I have come to trust him implicitly. He has helped me heal from PTSD and complex relational trauma, and the transformation since I began working with him far exceeds phenomenal....
by Jesse Donahue | Mar 27, 2024 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Expressive Writing, Guest Contributor
Books in elementary school… remember, or did your elementary school have a book day? Buying books that would arrive in a big box that the teacher would distribute to the purchasers/students, class. I used to buy them for the fancy covers, the sense of ownership of a...
by Susan Tait | Feb 26, 2024 | CPTSD, Expressive Writing, Guest Contributor
I was cautious, but hopeful, about attending a professional seminar by Erena DiGonis for clinical counselors about clinical journaling in general, and in pursuit of one particular approach: Pennebaker’s storytelling method. I picked up more, so much more than I...
