by Adina Lynn LeCompte | May 27, 2024 | Boundaries, Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, Core Beliefs, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Expressive Writing, Guest Contributor, Healing Codependency, Healing from Toxic Shame, Healing Self-Shame, Healthy Relationships, Life Management Skills, Nature, Pyschotherapy, Recovery, Self Care, self trust, Self-Acceptance
I have a wonderful therapist. It’s not your usual “talk therapy,” though. We do talk, and I have come to trust him implicitly. He has helped me heal from PTSD and complex relational trauma, and the transformation since I began working with him far exceeds phenomenal....
by Cyndi Bennett | Jan 25, 2024 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Life Management Skills, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Workplace Trauma
Have you ever made the brave decision to change careers, become an entrepreneur, or maybe become a coach? You went to school, took the training, passed the exam, and received your diploma/certificate, but you still don’t feel ready to move forward. Are you the kind of...
by Cyndi Bennett | Dec 14, 2023 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Life Management Skills, Mindfulness, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Post Traumatic Growth, PTSD, Workplace Trauma
During our lifetime, we experience many new beginnings. New beginnings can feel awkward and unsettling, whether it is a new school, job, program, team, or membership program. For the trauma survivor, however, new beginnings can trigger old messages of not being good...
by Elizabeth Woods | Oct 12, 2023 | CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor, Life Management Skills
***TRIGGER WARNING*** This article discusses trauma, including sexual references that may not be appropriate for all. My name is Elizabeth, and I am a survivor of CSA and unimaginable trauma. I have lived through a childhood full of sexual torture and witnessed...
by Shirley Davis | Oct 2, 2023 | CPTSD, Isolation, Life Management Skills
Many people, including those who were successful, such as Abraham Lincoln and Michelangelo, have committed the crime of self-sabotage. Chronic self-sabotage leads to destructive outcomes in our personal lives and at work. Those who have complex post-traumatic stress...
by Belinda Pyle | Apr 7, 2023 | Anxiety, Building Resilience in Healing, Combat Trauma, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Depression, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor, Healthy Relationships, Hope, Life Management Skills, Post Traumatic Growth, PTSD, Recovery, Relationships, Self Care, Self-Acceptance, Symptoms of CPTSD, Trauma
The stigma surrounding medications for mental illness often drives people away from what they need most. Many people innocently say, “I hate taking medications” or “I would never take them”. Isn’t it lovely that some people have a choice? People who don’t need...
