by LWK | Dec 5, 2023 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor
Taking time off when you need to be focusing on yourself Burn-out is at an all-time high. Employers continue to make cutbacks and what was once a workload shared among four or five people, is now the job of one or two. Employees are expected to work early and rewarded...
by Jennifer Kindera | Nov 28, 2023 | Codependency, Complex PTSD Healing, Guest Contributor, Healing Codependency, Relationships, Shame
Codependency is a psychological condition in which one person feels an inordinate responsibility for loved ones in a relationship. This reliance can grow to unhealthy proportions, where they feel responsible for their loved one’s thoughts, actions, or feelings and it...
by Jennifer Kindera | Nov 21, 2023 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Guest Contributor, Healing from Toxic Shame, Mental Health Professional, Shame
In my private practice, and mirrored in my life, because we seriously don’t end up in this work by accident, I’ve observed and experienced multiple, nuanced types of narcissistic behavior and attitudes. It seems that you can’t go anywhere these days without hearing...
by Elizabeth Woods | Nov 15, 2023 | ACEs, CPTSD, Guest Contributor
Grief and guilt change a survivor on a cellular level. There is no shame in accepting this change. Recovery and healing are not a straight line and nor is the grief process. Sometimes a memory is triggered that has not been thought of since it happened, decades...
by Jesse Donahue | Nov 14, 2023 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor
Trigger Warning: Please be kind to yourself as you read.In the Beganning… There was darkness and I was blind, oblivious to the truth, and indeed conditioned to be how I was. Until that day when I came to see, no, to feel, to know, there was a new way forward and not...
by Roseanne Reilly | Nov 7, 2023 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor
Do you ever feel like your body, mind, and emotions are like an out-of-tune orchestra in need of organizing? Perhaps you need a composer who can collect all the valuable information from feelings, thoughts, and sensations so that clear cohesive pieces of inviting,...