by Elizabeth Woods | Feb 14, 2023 | CPTSD, Family Estrangement, Guest Contributor, Triggers
***Trigger Warning*** This guest post discusses specific, explicit, aspects of a personal trauma story. Please be kind to yourself as you read. Complex PTSD is a long-term condition caused by childhood abuse and trauma. A survivor is someone who was exposed to...
by Shirley Davis | Feb 6, 2023 | CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD and PTSD, Family Estrangement
Living with the effects of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) is challenging. Survivors who have CPTSD should not have to deal with harmful family members. Going no contact is a choice that few survivors choose. Going no contact is painful and changes...
by Shirley Davis | Jan 30, 2023 | Family Estrangement
People with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) or living in other distress usually come from dysfunctional homes. These survivors have endured many traumas perpetrated by their family members, and after reaching adulthood, many of these grown children...
by Laura Buchenlicht | Jan 13, 2023 | Brain Chemistry, CPTSD, Family Estrangement, Generational Trauma, Guest Contributor, Narcissistic Personality Disorder
This blog originally appeared: at YouTube: If someone had told me just one year ago that I’d be running a YouTube channel with videos of me giving talks and reciting my own poetry in twelve months’ time, I wouldn’t have believed them. I was the youngest child in...
by Elizabeth Woods | Dec 8, 2022 | Abuse, CPTSD, Family Estrangement, Guest Contributor
I’m a survivor of sexual child abuse and horrific trauma. My start in life was difficult and painful and I grew up not knowing “how to live”. I didn’t know how to be a human being. I had no identity. I had not traveled and had no passport....
by Jamie Donmoyer | Nov 24, 2022 | Family Estrangement, Guest Contributor, Toxic Relationships
It’s been 24 hours since you’ve texted your Parent/Partner/Friend. No response. You: A. Assume their battery is dead or phone is lost. B. Call the police — Something’s wrong. C. Panic at hour 1 – “What did I do?” “Why are they mad at me?” Then wait in the fetal...
