by Rebekah Brown | Apr 15, 2021 | Abandonment and CPTSD, Attachment Trauma, Complex PTSD Healing, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Healthy Relationships
The Friend of Love My best friend is moving away. She’d been dropping hints for months, but I decided to retreat behind a wall of denial and hope for the best. The best was not to be. Ellen is moving, and there isn’t anything I can do about it. We had our share of...
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 Robyn Brickel | Dec 23, 2020 | Healthy Relationships, Trauma-Informed
It’s good, healthy, and human to want love and seek it out. We live longer, healthier lives when we feel close to someone safe. Some people feel painfully disconnected, and long to open up to others. But then they stop themselves from reaching out. As therapists, we...
by Jess | Nov 20, 2020 | CPTSD, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Emotional Wellness, Healing from Toxic Shame, Healthy Relationships
Who has bad taste in romantic partners? I do! No matter how many times I think I’m choosing wisely… uh… I’m not. Plain and simple, I don’t know how to choose a good human for my significant other. Am I a chronic dater? Just taking whatever comes my way? Nope,...
by J Bradley O | Oct 28, 2020 | Complex PTSD Healing, Depression, Emotional Flashbacks, Family Estrangement, Grief, Healthy Relationships, Holiday Stress, Mindfulness, Surviving the Holidays
Chilled and humid, the air sticks to my skin. The sky is thickly overcast, a shock after three warm days of sunshine. Is this the perfect background for my somber mood or the conditions that provoke it? October starts a long anniversary I don’t want to recall, much...
by Randi | Sep 18, 2020 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Guest Contributor, Healthy Relationships
Have you heard the saying that if you want to find out what your wife will be like in 20 years, look at her mother? Whereas that might result in a chuckle for some people, that thought was terrifying for me. As an adult survivor of child abuse at the hands of my...
