by Claire Exley | Mar 19, 2020 | CPTSD, Dissociation and CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Trauma-Informed Tuesday Newsletter, Treatment for CPTSD
At a boiling point? Trying to connect with a feeling, for me, can be like trying to boil a kettle with no water. You can click the button, but all you get is a few vapors. You can go through the motions, but with no hot water at the end of it. Ironically, being unable...
by Lisa Taylor | Mar 5, 2020 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Depression, Emotional Flashbacks, Grief, Guest Contributor, Healing from Toxic Shame, Mindfulness
It has taken me 43 years to be able to have the strength to write the words I did get out below, it ends abruptly because I could not go any further at that moment, however, I like each of you, am still healing from trauma. I will continue to dig deep and work on a...
by Jennifer "Kaylene" Carter | Dec 20, 2019 | CPTSD Poetry, Guest Contributor
The Diamond in My Heart -Survivor Poem by Jennifer “Kaylene” Carter If I never accomplished another thing, Would you still love me? If I couldn’t live up to the image you see, Would you claim me? You set for me standards you never could keep, An...
by Esme Johnson | Dec 12, 2019 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD Poetry, Guest Contributor
A Glimmer of Hope, a Survivor Poem. (trigger warning) Those things, you know, they ripped apart my childish soul Greedily grabbed and pulled out its beating heart They chewed it up, spat it out with contempt and Stamped upon it as it lay dying in the mud. Then you...
by Lisa Romano | Nov 13, 2019 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Healing Codependency, Healing from Toxic Shame
There is no healing without recognition of that which needs to be healed. Someone who has clogged arteries cannot heal those clogged arteries if they are unaware they have clogged arteries. To heal mentally, emotionally, spiritually, physically, or cognitively first...
