by Jamie Donmoyer | Oct 20, 2022 | Attachment Trauma, Boundaries, Codependency, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Family Estrangement, Healing from Toxic Shame, Healing Self-Shame, Healthy Relationships, Mindfulness, Relationships, Trauma-Informed
Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya on Unsplash Congratulations! You’ve decided that you’re through being abused by a toxic parent, partner, or friend and are ready to go No Contact. Good for you! You’re taking a HUGE, healthy step! Your first urge? To explain why. You want to...
by Heidi Fischer | Oct 5, 2022 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Healing from Toxic Shame
This article was originally published on The Mighty. There is a therapy trick that I’m willing to bet you’ve heard of. It’s a popular technique used to quiet down negative self-talk, a type of reframing called “naming.” Basically, you give your inner critic a name...
by Heidi Fischer | Jul 20, 2022 | Complex PTSD Healing, Guest Contributor, Healing from Toxic Shame, Hypervigilance
Have you ever noticed that you are hyper-aware of other people’s changing moods? This awareness could be a trauma response. It could be that you haven’t always exactly known what you were experiencing, but you recognize that you can regularly detect when...
by Kate K | Apr 21, 2022 | CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Guest Contributor, Healing from Toxic Shame, Healing Self-Shame, Mindfulness, Self-Acceptance
A decade ago, I had a counselor refer to CPTSD as a “psychiatric injury” as opposed to a “mental illness”. Something about that delineation really helped me understand the reality of what was going on. It wasn’t “me” that was the problem, the problem was “what...
by Rebekah Brown | Feb 4, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Emotional Wellness, Feeling Good Enough, Grief, Healing from Toxic Shame, Healthy Relationships, Outer Critic
Gaslighting: to manipulate (someone) by psychological or abusive means into questioning reality. I had watched my big brother board the school bus every day for the last year. Now, it was finally my turn. The very first week of first grade, my teacher, Mrs. King,...
by Jess | Jan 15, 2021 | ACEs, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Depression, Family Estrangement, Grief, Guest Contributor, Healing from Toxic Shame
Let’s talk about this untimely death situation. Well. This is a big topic that I’m not sure how to tackle, per se. Death is a new one to me. I’ve been relatively lucky that way. The death of the person who passed down most of our family trauma… that’s an even...
