by Susan Gold | Feb 12, 2025 | CPTSD and PTSD, Family Estrangement, Guest Contributor, Mental Health Professional, Toxic Relationships
For much of my life and career, I found comfort in the surface narrative—moving through the motions, staying busy, and avoiding deep scrutiny. But now, as the cracks in conventional structures continue to widen, operating on autopilot and chasing distractions no...
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 Sophia Rehmus | Feb 10, 2025 | CPTSD, Going No Contact, Guest Contributor, Self Care
In July 2020, eleven months since we first went no-contact, my father wrote me his own obituary. Entitled “Who I Am on the Way,” my father described in the third person his early profound religious experiences (“[a]s if he’d written John 21:25” himself), how for him,...
by Sadie Montgomery | Feb 6, 2025 | Boundaries, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD and Parenting, Estrangement, Family Estrangement, Guest Contributor, Toxic Relationships, Triggers
“Mom,” Harper started, “Grandma Clare sent me a text inviting me to dinner at her house for my birthday. Is that weird that she only invited me and not all of us?” Grandma Clare, my stepmother, is a narcissist. Over the past decade, I have set boundaries and distanced...
by Elizabeth Woods | Feb 3, 2025 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Mindfulness, Self-Acceptance
My name is Lizzy, and I am a survivor of child abuse and trauma. It’s been several decades since I escaped my childhood and started again but the past is still living inside me and if you are a survivor like me, you will understand what this feels like....
by Marta Luzim, MS | Jan 30, 2025 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Journaling
How many heartbreaks does it take to heal a soul? I don’t know, lifetimes? If I were to die and be reborn again I would want to be your tear To be born in your eye To live on your cheek To die upon your lips – By Melinda Green, age 16 A client once asked: “How...
