by Angela Solic | Jun 4, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, Healing Self-Shame, Post Traumatic Growth
Trigger Warning: This post contains references to traumatic childhood experiences, including recalled memories of abuse and descriptions of the author’s trauma responses. Please take care while reading. I’m surprised I wasn’t born wearing a tiny pair of...
by Elizabeth Woods | Jun 1, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, CPTSD, Healing from Toxic Shame, Healing Self-Shame, Hope
It’s official, my MFA is in the bag. I did it! I have achieved a Master’s degree in Writing. It’s a dream come true for me. Something I could only dream about over the years. My dream started when I was about four or five years old. I was living a nightmare childhood....
by Elizabeth Woods | May 4, 2026 | CPTSD, Healing Self-Shame, Self-Acceptance
We don’t often think about ourselves. Most of the time, we don’t take regular breaks at work. Who cares what you think about yourself? Well, you do–yes, really. The reason is that you matter, and your presence in this world matters. Think about the last...
by Jesse Donahue | Mar 17, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Healing Self-Shame, Self-Acceptance
There she strolled, with a designed grace, one foot forward after the other, pushing, dispensing, oozing that life’s source, that vibrant something. Something spoken, wildly, emboldened to dare tell, to call out the imperative want and hunger that is human...
by Jenney Clark | Feb 19, 2026 | Attachment Trauma, Boundaries, Building Resilience in Healing, Codependency, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Healing Codependency, Healing Self-Shame, Healthy Relationships
I have often been asked why I am an outspoken writer, willing to tackle thorny and difficult issues well beyond my usual scope of mystical interest. In an era of stifling correctness that governs much of the media, it would be career-savvy to “stay in my lane.” So why...
by Natalie Rose | Nov 8, 2024 | Boundaries, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Healing Self-Shame
“I can’t forgive myself.” Daily, I uttered this phrase. When I said it, my loved ones were concerned. “But what do you need to forgive yourself for?” They’d ask, perplexed. For them, there was nothing I’d done that needed forgiving. The voice in my head screamed,...
